I have bought just only 3 days ago a Pelikan M400 (Oscar Braun shop, a very good transation -many thanks Pam!-) with a fine nib.

Well, the fine nib make a broad line in certain papers (not at all), I´m thinking to change fine nib for a medium, the question is: that problem will be worse with a medium or it depends more of the quality of paper than the nib?.

Regards,

Jorge.

Depends on the paper and on the ink.

Yah, but I have always come down on the side that the paper has more to do with the situation than the ink.

Could be wrong...but same nib/same ink over a variety of papers will give different widths...

Bill

A Medium nib will deliver more ink than a Fine nib, esp in the same pen from the same maker.

Regarding the paper/ink issue: the paper definitely makes more difference in final line width than ink choice. There are some inks that are more prone to feathering, but IME the paper choice is about 4-5x as great an influence than ink choice.

FYI, many Pelikans tend to run "wet", putting out a lot of ink. This can be tamed by a different paper or by "tweaking" by the dealer.

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