Is it just me?

Or does Quink washable blue always work better in fountain pens in terms of consistent flow and a nice wet feel?

Normal Quink is terrible in my pens I am very unhappy with the flow and find it unsatisfactory unless I add a drop of dishwashing liquid to the bottle (which should be unnecessary in the first place <_< )

What are your preferences between "Permanent" Quink and Washable Blue Quink?

I finks it be YOU

I do have some issues with Quink Permanent Black, but we have been there, done that, wearing the T Shirt.

Quink Washable Blue is an OK colour and works well to clean out a pen. especially the old stuff with Solv-X in. Either that or it is me and I am taken in by the cleans your pen as it writes bit. But the Permanent Blue and the BlueBlack are just fine in either a "51" Sonnet, 61 or 65, I have the Permanent Blue in a 65 and a 61 capilliary filler today, no flow issues whatsoever.

Just my .02 worth

Jim

They both, washable and permanent work well in my pens.

I can't vote, because I've not used permanent blue, but I LOVE
Quink washable blue, both for its particular shade of non-saturated
blue and its great flow. There are some pens that definitely
write better with this than other inks in my experience.

I use washable blue, permanent blue, and washable blue-black, in Parker 45, "51" Vac, and 61 and in a Sheaffer Snorkel. Also sometimes in Esterbrook J pens. No problems with any of the three in any of the pens.

I don't use Quink Black, but only because my preferred black ink in Noodler's Black.

I've had no problems with the permanent blue-black. It was very wet in my Parker 100, wetter than the Diamine Prussian Blue that replaced it.

Lee

I agree with "jeen". Quink Washable blue has that non-saturated light appeal without being turquoise. I even dilute it further.

I have a new bottle of Quink Washable Blue, it seems to act the same as the bottle it replaced.

I have some older bottles of Quink Black and Blue-Black, and they work just fine. They're from the 80's, work in a businesslike and unremarkable fashion, and at the rate I'm using them, I'll probably run out in 2012 or so.

I've noticed a slight difference - the washable blue does flow sligly better than the other inks and it still has a bit of a smell to it which is more pronounced than the others. The others seem to behave as the waterman inks ( it is the same company after all).

For me, this difference between Permanent Quink and Washable Quink feels quite big

I was put off Quink, because they worked terribly in my first two fountain pens (Vector and Sonnet). Quink (all three colours, blue, blueblack and black) wrote with inconsistent flow (Wrote dry....then wet.....dry...then wet) and the nib didn't feel smooth, but squeeky. Added a drop of dishwashing liquid to the Quink bottle, as some have described here in this forum, and WHALLA!! Problem solved for me. The ink flows more consistently and more thickly...

Recently, a friend of mine whips out his fountain pens and I borrow them to write with. He seems to be using a very smooth, purple-like ink which is both appealing to my eyes and flow. I asked him what it was and it was Parker Washable Blue

Through this, I have converted to Parker Washable Blue and left the Permanent Quinks behind I definitely do prefer the properties of the Washable Blue....wouldn't mind if Parker made more colours in Washable that are as widely available as they are now /:)

Today, I went to Myer Department store to buy a bottle of Washable Blue...and they scanned as $1.50 on the cash register The shop assistant seemed a bit confused and said it was probably on stocktake sale. So I grabbed all 3 bottles of Quink Washable Blue that they had left in stock for $1.50 each 9

Gday,

I agree, I have a Pelikan M600 Burgundy with a med (the 18ct nib) and it has been a bit scratchy and skippy but my last fill was with Parker Washable Blue and it flowed better than ever. It didn't seem to like Pelikan Brown at all. I'm happy I've found an ink that works with this nib.

Bill

I've never paid any attention to whether the Quink I bought was washable or not, and they've all worked fine in my pens for 30+ years. Has the formulation been changed?

I'm sure it has as it no longer smells like it used to. Plus the fact that Waterman and Quink ink are now owned by the same parent company. Washable blue seems variable from bottle to bottle - sometimes more blue-black other times a brighter blue.

An update about my feelings about Quink

there was nothing wrong with the ink! :doh:

I think it was a classic case of factory oils. After using a lot and getting the factory oils cleaned out of my pens, Quink wrote flawlessly in the pens. Beautiful flow and consistency!

I love Quink now. Both washable and permanent

I've used washable blue Quink continuously in some of my pens for over thirty years and it generally has been fine. I've always kept nearly all of my pens continuously inked and usually with washable blue.