I bought some pelikan blue black ink as a "filler item" with other inks to justify the postage costs.
Im not a huge fan of blues, never have been. But thought I would give this a whirl. Its a very well behaved
and quite dry like Pelikan Brilliant Black and Pelikan Violet.

Its much less black than i had imagined but its very easy to get on with. Compared to private reserve electric DC blue
this is a much easier ink in daily use. The pr ink i find comes off the paper (way after its dried in) onto my fingers if they are anything other than "bone dry"
wheras this is much better at staying on the paper.

I use the Pelikan Blue-Black in my Mento, and very much for the same reason.

Nice. Pel B-B is certainly on my short list. You must have a very wet writer there, no?

That's definitely a pen which that ink agrees with. A previous review got very long and cranky with people yelling back and forth about how wonderfully rich/pathetically thin it appears. I really like it, in certain pens.

I like the shading!

The stuff looks gorgeous in the wetter writers as well as in broads and stubs- but I've never seen Pelikan BB look so nice in a finer nibbed pen- what did you use? In most EF, F and many M nibs Pelikan BB ends up looking more like a blue/purple-tinged gray, and is usually derided as a boring ink for that reason.

Must say I so like the color in the scan..wonder if it writes in similar shades with other pens.

The pen i used for this review was a medium nib Laban Mento.

I have Pelikan BB filled in two pens: a vintage Pelikan 400NN B and a vintage Pelikan 400 EF nib. Both nibs are wet writers and is comes out of my flexible EF nib with a nice shading. To emphasize the blue I like to mix it with Pelikan blue.

Having used this ink in vintage Pelikan pens makes you understand why the ink is on the dry side.

I've tried this ink in my Apogee using the converter and I must say the results really are disappointing although I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion this is largely due to the flow rate of that pen when using it's converter - if I use a Cross blue black cartridge (exactly the same Pelikan ink in it) it works alot better but seems to flow too much! How weird!?

Nice review. The colour of the scan on my monitor is exactly the colour that comes out of my pens with this ink, even my Pilot VP with fine nib, wich is rather a dry writer. A wetter nib adds some shading but doesn't change the colour in my experience. This ink behaves very well (no creeping, no staining, no blooding and the drying time is OK - less than 5''). This is a good ink for bad quality paper e.g. Moleskine.
And no, it is not nearly black, but I understood that blue-black never means nearly black.
Oh, did I yet say that your handwriting is nice, fluent and easy to read?

Orval

Nice review and a real classic, 1940's-looking ink......Must have this for my Parker 51



--BC