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I just received in the mail my new Pelikan M200 fine point. What ink would you experienced Pelikan users recommend? I would like to use black ink.

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Just about any ink made for fountain pens should do you well. For black, I favor Aurora black. Never had a problem with it. Enjoy your new M200.

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Dear doctorjah,

 

I got my M-200 fine nib 28 years ago for $40 American. It has been my daily writer. Have fed it nothing but 4001 royal blue ink & never had a problem. Your preferred black is also available in that brand.

 

Greetings from an Appalachian-American

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Just about any ink made for fountain pens should do you well. For black, I favor Aurora black. Never had a problem with it. Enjoy your new M200.

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Thanks for the information. I'm trying it with Waterman Intense Black because I was able to get some of that quickly. Maybe I'll try some Pelikan 4001, too.

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Just about any ink made for fountain pens should do you well. For black, I favor Aurora black. Never had a problem with it. Enjoy your new M200.

You can't go wrong with Aurora Black. Simply the best black out there

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Thanks for the information. I'm trying it with Waterman Intense Black because I was able to get some of that quickly. Maybe I'll try some Pelikan 4001, too.

 

 

Okay, let us know how it goes! I'm particularly interested because I have an M400 that wrote horribly with Waterman Intense Black (lots of skipping), but wrote beautifully once I fed it some Aurora Black. I'm starting to suspect there may be some hard feelings between Pelikan pens and Waterman inks. In fact, I just started a thread about this:
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Thanks for the information. I'm trying it with Waterman Intense Black because I was able to get some of that quickly. Maybe I'll try some Pelikan 4001, too.

You will find that Pelikan black is one of reasonably priced the really black inks. It's pretty water resistant too and washes out reasonably easily.

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And if you can get your hands on some Pelikan 4001 Blue Black....

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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For Lady P: I did notice some skipping with the Waterman Intense Black, but I think it's more to do with the paper in the cheap composition books I use for my journals than the ink, because it hasn't skipped anywhere else I've written. Could be just getting used to the pen, too. It writes with a rather different feel than my Waterman Phileas, which is the one I've used mostly up to now. I think I might get some of this Aurora Black several have mentioned, though it's more expensive than Waterman or Pelikan. I need two bottles of black ink anyway, one for home and one for office. I guess I'll just have to rinse out the ink chamber when I change over. A question: do you folks think rinsing is really necessary, since they're both black? Can there be some sort of bad reaction, like clumping, when inks are mixed?

 

For Vintage: Yes, I've noticed the Waterman black looks more like dark gray to me.

 

For Runnin_Ute: My plan is to stick with black for this pen. My Phileas is for blue ink, which I'm using up a bottle of Waterman Florida Blue and one of Private Reserve Midnight Blues.

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