Hi,

Anyone here used Pilot ink before? It comes with black and blue colour and have 30cc. Is it safe for fountain pen? Im searching for a nice blue colour ink. I have tried Parker Quink washable blue which is too light for my taste. Im considering this Pilot blue ink.

Bottled Pilot Blue ink is a bright peacocky color with very good water-resistance. It worked very well in my Vanishing Point.

Pilot blue is my ink of choice. It is one of the cheap ones here in Japan, and the results are very good in my opinion. Never had any problem with either blue or black Pilot inks. Never tried blue-black or red.

Cheers,

Io

I've tried the black (in the expensive Namiki brand bottle with the internal dipping well),
blue (cartridges and Namiki bottle),
blue-black (cartridges, no bottles outside Japan?),
and red (the Japanese-market, short, square-bottomed, simple, Pilot brand bottle).
The Namiki and Pilot bottle caps all have excellent, durable seals.

The blue behaves well enough on mediocre-to-bad paper for two-sided writing, in addition to being strongly water-resistant. It looks cheerful, and it is easy to read.

The black is for one-sided writing on mediocre-to-bad paper, somewhat water-resistant, and not blackest-black (good if blackest-black doesn't help your mood). It shows no green. It is one of the few fountain pen inks that work well on thermal-paper receipts and correction tape. Following FPNer TheNobleSavage, I also use it as a pen cleaner to write with (a phrase from FPNer JimStrutton, who calls Quink Washable Blue that for very good reasons).

The blue-black is somewhere in between for water resistance and behavior on paper. It doesn't show any green either, so it's a very pleasant, dark blue gray.

The red is for one-sided writing on mediocre-to-bad paper and is not water-resistant. It looks like a bright mixture of pink-magenta and orange, good for markup and attention-getting, short notes.

I bought a bottle of Pilot blue-black in Japan. It's safe in fountain pens (I think that's its main purpose). As Goodwhiskers said, it's a dark blue-gray colour on paper. Even though it seems to work great in every pen I've used it in, I just find the colour really boring, and I usually only use it for testing pens that have problems with other ink.

It was dirt cheap compared to other inks I bought in Japan.. I think it cost me the equivalent of $4.50 USD.

Neill

It also comes in red. I use it in my Falcon, and it is a great, bright red color, very suitable for editing.

Another popular blue ink from Japan is Sailor Blue. It's more expensive than Pilot Blue. It is almost as water-resistant as Pilot Blue.

Are pilot inks the same as namiki inks?

MrR

If the ink in my blue Pilot cartridges and bottle of Namiki Blue is typical, I would say it's not (at least, not in terms of colour); Namiki Blue is a mid-light blue except in wet pens, whereas the ink in the blue Pilot cartridges is closer in colour to the ink in a blue Pilot Varsity (i.e., a much darker, stronger colour). When I stop procrastinating, I'll buy some Pilot bottled ink and see for sure....

Simon

Yes, for their fountain pen inks. The company is the same. The only differences are the bottles and prices. The Namiki bottle is worth the extra cost because of its nifty shape and internal dipping well. The boxes of cartridges have both Pilot and Namiki brand logos.