List Of Dry Inks

[Reevers]

Omas Grey seems the driest ink I own (10 other inks, so not a massive selection)

[StrawberryJam]

J. Herbin Violette Pensee is known to be pretty dry. I like using it in my broader, wetter pens.

[agentdaffy007]

I always thought J.Herbin inks are wet. Thank you for the recommandation.

[Blue_Moon]

I appreciate this list as a "inks to avoid" reminder.

 

Ditto! I don't own one ink mentioned in this thread. For me, that's a good thing.

[StrawberryJam]

I always thought J.Herbin inks are wet. Thank you for the recommandation.

 

I can't speak to the rest of the J. Herbin regular line. The 1670 series is very wet though, and at least Stormy Grey seems to feather quite a bit on cheap paper.

 

But the Violette Pensee is a favorite of mine for the purple family - vibrant, some shading, very well-behaved.

[Strombomboli]

 

I can't speak to the rest of the J. Herbin regular line.

 

Nor can I, but the three or four Herbin inks I own, are not dry, and I haven't encountered Stormy Grey feathering yet. Éclat de saphir tends to the soapy side, though, that's my only complaint.

[BobR]

Many brown/orange inks seem to be dry, and I notice that several have been mentioned. I find Diamine Burnt Sienna quite dry--great color but can be a problem in the wrong pen. Also Visconti Bordeaux is dry in most of my pens. Surprising, although blue inks usually are fairly wet, a few of the Diamine blues can be noticeably dry, for example Presidential, Prussian, and WES Imperial.

[agentdaffy007]

I wish i could say the same for my Montblanc Toffee Brown and Montblanc Mahatma Gandhi Orange. Both are wet.

 

Many brown/orange inks seem to be dry, and I notice that several have been mentioned. I find Diamine Burnt Sienna quite dry--great color but can be a problem in the wrong pen. Also Visconti Bordeaux is dry in most of my pens. Surprising, although blue inks usually are fairly wet, a few of the Diamine blues can be noticeably dry, for example Presidential, Prussian, and WES Imperial.

[VivienR]

There is two in my mind, and both are J. Herbin:

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Rouge Opera

Both are really nice color, but still they fell to be dry even compared for other J. Herbin ink.

[Strombomboli]

Rouge opéra is one of my J. Herbin inks, and I don't find it dry; it writes as wet as the others, which--as I said--I don't find dry, but very okay as well.

 

Maybe we should find some definition for a dry ink, or, at least, some criteria to test inks for dryness; otherwise, this list is useless.

Edited April 11, 2015 by Strombomboli

[Barkingpig]

As I am still very inexperienced with using the inks/pens I acquired mainly by reputation & personal appeal I find myself wondering whether the culprit is my pen or ink. I recently experienced SEVERE issues of dryness in a newly purchased Graf Von Faber Intuition. It has a OB nib & after expecting a nice "gush" of ink I have found a literal "dry well!" After the third flushing with the dish soap solution & an inking of Sailor (Bung Box which produces generous flow in other application) & Diamine Mozart (Music Collection) I have been ready to give up. Today I added a "pin drop" of detergent to the converter & seem to have solved my problem.

BUT this stuff seems HARD! I worry that I am making assumptions regarding inks from reading reviews that are obviously based on use of pens that I wouldn't know whether they were characteristically "wet" or "dry." And I realise I have been lucky to have NOT experienced such a dry pen until now almost a year into the exploration. BUT I am confused to think it is merely a "trial & error" of achieving the pleasing combination.

[jmccarty3]

A little glycerine will often loosen things up. Cuddles Flo Plus (Organic Studios) will do the same, if you can find it.

[agentdaffy007]

The best way to test if an ink is dry or not is to load that ink into 2 fountain pens (dry fp and normal fp).

[Strombomboli]

After the third flushing with the dish soap solution

 

I wonder if this was a good idea. Dish soap is not recommended. Maybe you now have to flush out soap residue.

 

On the other hand, since it is a new pen, it should write. Maybe you should bring it back to the shop or send it to the GvFC service.

[Barkingpig]

 

I wonder if this was a good idea. Dish soap is not recommended. Maybe you now have to flush out soap residue.

 

On the other hand, since it is a new pen, it should write. Maybe you should bring it back to the shop or send it to the GvFC service.

Thank you for your concern & It was a concerning measure for me when I "did the deed." It seemed contrary to "the initial cleaning of all newly manufactured pens that supposedly removes any residual oils left behind always being rinsed AFTER using the soaped solution." I mean WHY was I always supposed to "rinse repeatedly?" YET I was very frustrated with this pen because I had expectations of it being one I would enjoy using. INSTEAD I had a pen that was truly worthless to me except for continued frustrations. I did NOT see how it could "hurt" & wanted to try it before "sending it away." WELL it has done it's job very nicely. Yesterday & today I have enjoyed no hard starts nor flow issues. It was indeed an extremely small amount of Dawn detergent so I did NOT expect any unforeseen disaster BUT I was pleased to enjoy for the first time a pen that I enjoy using after almost a month of frustration. It may indeed be given over to a professional @ some point but for now I am content.

[Strombomboli]

All is well, that ends well! I hope, the pen will never let you down in the future and you'll enjoy it happily everafter.

[wimg]

The driest ink I own, out of the 200+ so far, is J. Herbin Café des Îles. It also is the driest of all J.Herbin inks I own, which is the entire set as was available up to a few years ago anyway .

 

Because I liked the colour so much - it really looks like a good Italian coffee in the morning -, I ended up adjusting the ink flow in one particular pen which cried out for this ink - one of my Stipula Etruria 991s .

 

Of course, now I can't use that pen for any other ink anymore , it literally is a fire hose with any other ink I ever tried with it .

 

Bot, wow, what a great colour! It really looks like you write with pure unadulterated coffee .

 

Warm regards, Wim

[fountainpenlady]

But only if you have pens with dry nibs. For someone like me that has some Pelikan and Montblanc firehoses this list is a "must have" reminder.

I appreciate the list. I have an Omas Ogiva Alba which needs a dry ink. However, I write with reds and none of the brands or choices include red. I have yet to find an ink which I can put in this pen and it does not burp or drizzle through the tines. For me, unsightly and I feel like a preacher sweating through a particularly long sermon. I keep a tissue along with me when I use it, which since the inks tend to be red, use your own imagination for what others may be thinking of this practice.

[Joane]

Rouge Opéra, mentioned above, is red.

[fountainpenlady]

 

Rouge Opéra, mentioned above, is red.

Rouge Opéra, mentioned above, is red.

Thanks, I am smiling as I have a 10ml cute little bottle of it just purchased from JetPens. Thanks.