Is Modern Parker Quink Black Ink Safe?

[dhanks]

13 hours ago, vicpen123 said:

I have used nothing but Parker Quink Black for nearly 50 years in all my fountain pens.

 

Never had flow or clogging issues.

 

Maybe the Aussie weather is kinder to the ink.

Well, that's a ringing endorsement.  Hmm, 50 years...that would make me 115 years old.  And by then I'll probably be ready to try something new anyway.  Thank you, I think I'll try a bottle of it!

 

Rumpole

[MisterSheaffer]

I'll chime in to say I bought a bottle of Parker Quink black in 2015 and have never had flow or clogging issues.

[Arkanabar]

On 8/24/2023 at 3:56 PM, Mark from Yorkshire said:

Isn’t white lightning a cheap rubbish alcoholic drink that kids who are too young to drink legally consume in the local recreational area I.E park?

When referring to adult beverages in the US, white lightning generally refers to moonshine, illegally produced and generally unaged grain alcohol, running as close as possible (given the relatively crude production equipment) to 100% ethanol.  Everclear is essentially the same product, available in concentrations of 60% to 95% alcohol, but with all taxes paid and stamps attached, meaning there is a company you can sue if it's bad.

White Lightning is also a brand name of bicycle chain lubricant noted for not staining clothes.

[Mark from Yorkshire]

6 hours ago, Arkanabar said:

When referring to adult beverages in the US, white lightning generally refers to moonshine, illegally produced and generally unaged grain alcohol, running as close as possible (given the relatively crude production equipment) to 100% ethanol.  Everclear is essentially the same product, available in concentrations of 60% to 95% alcohol, but with all taxes paid and stamps attached, meaning there is a company you can sue if it's bad.

White Lightning is also a brand name of bicycle chain lubricant noted for not staining clothes.

Ok cool, it was just a memory of a cider we had in uk and it’s associations

[TheRedBeard]

On 8/25/2023 at 12:26 AM, vicpen123 said:

I have used nothing but Parker Quink Black for nearly 50 years in all my fountain pens.

 

Never had flow or clogging issues.

 

Maybe the Aussie weather is kinder to the ink.

+1  

I have never ever had any problems with Parker Quink Black using it for about 35 years under lovely England weather either  

It has been my first choice and everyday ink.

Moreover, my current Parker 100 with F nib performs perfectly only with this ink.

 

 

 

 

 

[Sailor Kenshin]

Now on Day 5 of trying to clean Quink Black from the Jinhao 51A.  I'm tired of this, so it's going in the sonicator tonight.

[Ron Z]

I'm glad that people haven't had problems. Great that it works for you.  But we have seen multiple pens that simply would not write with  black Parker Quink, that worked perfectly well with any other ink.  This has been the case through the 16 years that I've been in the pen repair business full time, and in the 30+ years since I started repairing pens.

[GlenV]

Maybe not a favorite daily ink but I sure like Quink black for calligraphy practice with my fountain pens but I clean them after so have not had an issue and my early eyedroppers 

are great with this, I draw with it in a snorkel, but clean it out after using it. The reason I like it is that is dries fast enough to not spread as much as other inks, it's hard to get super fine lines 

in a fountain pen than a dip one.

[vicpen123]

6 hours ago, Ron Z said:

I'm glad that people haven't had problems. Great that it works for you.  But we have seen multiple pens that simply would not write with  black Parker Quink, that worked perfectly well with any other ink.  This has been the case through the 16 years that I've been in the pen repair business full time, and in the 30+ years since I started repairing pens.

Any theories why? Are any pen brands more susceptible? It seems odd that what is normally considered a safe, versatile ink can cause problems like this.

[Ron Z]

No idea.  Inks can have different flow characteristics, but this one...  It's to the point where when someone writes about a balky pen, I ask what ink they're using as a place to start.  If they come back with "Black Parker Quink," I suggest that they clean the pen and try another ink, and then get back to me.   Invariably the ink change works.

 

Inks that I like and have never hand problems with are the Pelikan 4001 inks, and Aurora.  I use Pelikan blue for testing everything.  It's a preference, but I've been using it exclusively for over 10 years now.

[LeadoutTJV]

Thank you all for this info.