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Two weeks ago I bought my first fountain pen and now I am looking for a good ink to use it with at school during the upcoming year.

My requirements for the ink are:

-easily readable(for long essays, ext.)

-reasonable drying time (I am a lefty)

-preferably Diamine Ink, but other brands available in the UK are also fine.

-little to no bleed through with notebook paper (not using the cheapest and thinnest paper, but certainly not Rhodia like)

 

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Hi there,

 

I'd suggest any of the following:

 

Pelikan 4001 blue, Lamy Blue, Quink Permanent Blue, (don't be fooled by the name - they mean fabrics), Sheaffer Blue or Waterman Serenity Blue.

 

All are easily available and better still... all can be easily ERASED with a Pelikan or Lamy correction pen. :thumbup:

 

Be well and enjoy life. :)

 

 

- Anthony

 

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I suggest Diamine Sargasso Sea among Diamine blues. It's darker than Diamine Sapphire Blue. For readability, I think darker is better. I threw the other inks in there for comparison.

 

 

 

As you can see, there was plenty of show-through, but no bleed-through.

 

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The paper is cheap paper in a generic composition notebook I bought at Target at the back-to-school sale price of $.50USD. Regular price: $1.00USD. The paper is notebook-paper thin, so thin that through the paper you can also see the "Class Schedule" form on the inside front cover.

 

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I love the smell of fountain pen ink in the morning.

 

 

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Another vote for Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue, one of my favorite inks that will handle cheap paper very well.

 

Diamine Royal Blue is a very nice blue, bluer than 4001 but it might feather on cheap paper.

 

Also you could consider Pilot Blue. It is not washable, in fact it's very water resistant and depending on your paper ti could behave well.

 

I would recommend getting samples of the Diamine and Pilot and see how they perform on your paper, Pelikan could look a bit "thin" and "washed" depending on your pen. (fun story, I got lower grade on a paper I submitted because it was very pale and not easy to read. Lamy M and Pelikan Royal Blue)

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I would recommend Rohrer & Klingner brand. They made very affordable (less than 5 GBP for a 50 ml bottle) and well-behaving inks - perfect for school. Some particular colours:

  1. Salix - blue-black waterproof iron gall ink with great shading, everybody loves it
  2. Königsblau - standard royal blue
  3. Blau Permanent - light blue, I don't like light blues in general but I love this one
  4. Verdigris - very dark
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I'd go with Pilot Blue Black.

 

Fast drying. Easily readable, cleans up easily, won't stain pens, water resistant, cheap. Behaves well.

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If you are in England than you are in the place for ESSRI, it's fade resistant, water resistant, a tad dry for my tastes, but a high quality ink. Check out Sandy1's reviews.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Not that you are short of recommendations--any of the inks above would work well--but I will add Waterman Blue, which I think people tend to overlook because of the limited choice of colors offered by Waterman. But Waterman Blue is inexpensive, performs flawlessly, dries quickly, and is a pleasing color. Half of my pens are usually filled with Waterman Blue at any one time.

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I know you didn't ask about this one, and it isn't an ink I would normally use, however, Waterman Mysterious Blue kind of fills the bill. And it works well on every paper, from what I've been able to tell. And in every pen.

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Diamine Saphire is also a very nice blue.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My recommendation is Diamine Midnight.

Diamine-Midnight is an EXCELLENT ink. For a lighter blue than Midnight I also like Diamine-Asa Blue. Both work for me in a F or XF nib too, with no issues. Asa Blue is a little more wet than Midnight, if that helps. Some like Oxford Blue. I liked it, but I didn't love it.

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Pilot Blue Black in the 350ml bottle? Haven't tried it but seems nice, and it has 10x - 7x the ink volume other vendors offer, so you're unlikely to run out...

 

More expensive but oh so pretty... Iroshizuku Asa gao, Kon Peki, Tsuyu Kusa, Sailor Souten (smells funky though), Callifolio Équinoxe 6, Sheaffer Skrip Blue (probably not as expensive)... As for drying times, it depends a lot on the paper, but even on high end slow drying paper it looks so nice it's very much worth it, it might even tempt you into writing better / more legibly. You could get a cheap bulb blower if you want to hurry things along.

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Another +1 on Pilot blue-black. Well behaved with some water resistance. Affordable to boot. Coincidentally, I'm using it as my blue ink for school. You could add a cartridge, or two, of Pilot Black (not the mixables for the Parallel) to a 30ml bottle to make it a little darker if you like. I put two in mine: it's darker, but still definitely blue.

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Thank you all! I didn't expect so many replies! FPN is one of the best communities I have ever been into. Receiving so many suggestions makes it even harder to chose :D But I will most likely be buying Diamine Midnight (loving that colour). As for ESSRI, I don't think I am ready for using Iron-gall inks yet.

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