Inky T O D - What Are Dry Inks?

[Orrell Post]

Any thoughts on Visconti ink, I want to use it with a Baoer 100 fine.

[Tas]

I have Visconti Blue.
Yummy.

Wet and really well behaved.
It's married to my Pelikan M30, been together nearly two years now . . .

[Orrell Post]

I am so happy for them, is this a starter marriage?

 

I will introduce it to Baoer when it arrives, can't wait for the post this coming week.

[Torrilin]

I made the mistake of filling a Preppy with Lamy Blue Black. Scratch scratch. I like it in other nibs, and the line is lovely and fine. But scratch scratch.

 

Hilariously, unlike every ink I’ve tried so far in a Preppy, the Lamy Blue Black can and does dry out in the nib.

 

Not a good combo at all. Really really razor crisp edges, but unpleasant to write with.

 

I’m suspecting that Kaweco inks run a bit dry. Not Lamy Blue Black dry, but a bit dry. I’ll have to fiddle around to test it. They’re giving a very fine and crisp line in any pens I try them in. Since I tend to like very crisp line, and so far they all shade like crazy this is a good thing.

[ENewton]

I have very limited experience with Kaweco inks, but for Kaweco Summer Purple to flow adequately in my Sport suggests to me that it can't be all that dry. (Not a generous pen.) And I agree about the shading, which is evident even when the nib is fine.

[Torrilin]

I’ve written out the grey and brown, and both were a bit scratchy dry in the good way where your nib writes as crisp a line as possible. There was some nib dry out while writing and drawing too when the dry flow went a bit too dry. Swapped the pen to J Herbin Vert Olive and bam, the scratchy and dry out stopped. I’ll keep playing around with it, I really like the pen in question even if it feels a bit dry with Kaweco ink.

 

I don’t have cartridges of Summer Purple, but I’m working my way through Sunrise Orange, paradise blue, and pearl black too. I might have a sample of ruby red knocking around, and I can do one of the obvious Herbin comparisons...

 

The brown is really nice, a lot like Lie de Thé without a stupidly long dry time. So I’ve got that on the list to try too. If it’s the pen that’s dry, then I might have the solution for long dry time inks...