Best blue-black ink for truly awful copy paper

[75-FP]

When testing the ink samples I bought I had simply dipped the nibs into the small vials and saw how they wrote on the crappy office paper. Based on the results I inked up two of my pens and was going to set

up for a longer term test. I grabbed some paper from work, brought it home……and suddenly all my pens wrote fine again. No super absorbency or blotting issues. Totally strange but I’m just happy I can use my pens on a daily basis again. Anyhow I was able to scrounge up some old reports I have printed out several weeks ago for a more in depth analysis. My results are below. The top page is the bad paper and the one below is what I would call a normally grade of paper. The top page is just truly awful and it comes back in I may reach out to our office supply company.

Edited March 10, 2024 by 75-FP

[Prof Drew]

Interesting test. I suppose it makes sense that dipping the pens in vials or samples simply got the feed super wet compared to usual inking via piston or converter... so that might be the reason for simply slip sliding along on cheap paper. It is funny on how Ink+Nib+Feed+Paper (and I suppose +user writing style) can shape ink flow.

 

Have a good week on paper and life.

[Doc Dan]

What about Sailor Souboku blue black ink? It is waterproof and drier than Pilot blue black. 

[arcfide]

One thing to consider is humidity. Humidity in storage can really mess up papers, even if they came fine from the factory. 

[AndyYNWA]

5 hours ago, Doc Dan said:

What about Sailor Souboku blue black ink? It is waterproof and drier than Pilot blue black. 

I know that the "sister ink", Sei-boku, is superb on poor quality paper.

[txomsy]

Or may be simply a bad batch. Sometimes happens.

[TheRobotCow]

I vote for pilot iroshizuku tsuki-yo and sailor souboku 

[Nick T]

Why no love for KWZ Blue Black? I’ve been using it at work for a couple years on all kinds of paper to good effect. It’s a favorite.