Pelikan 4001 Historical Bottled Ink for Fountain Pens, Royal Blue, 62.5ml, 1 Each (340299)

Just got back into fountain Ink pens and wanted a good ink. It's been close to 30 years, since I've used a fountain pen. Gave this Ink a whirl and it was worth it. First, the bottle is super kool looking. Second, the Royal Blue is really nice color and the ink flows really well. I've tried the ink on a copy of different paper types and no bleeding with a medium Nib. So far, I'm happy with this ink and will be trying the black next. Very happy with this Ink and think it's a good purchase and will buy more. Thanks

Love the color, nice and smooth,

This is fountain pen ink. Calligraphy ink dries in fountain pens and clogs them. This ink is the proper in for a fountain pen. I’m glad I found it.

Good value for the money, delivered quickly, good color

Very clean well processed traditional fountain pen ink. I have used it for years in a nice selection of various colors. Dries quickly, it does have a unique smooth flow of the ink!

This ink is great. The bottle has a nice shape, easy to fill from and the textured lid makes for easy opening and closing. It is very blue, the kind of blue I imagine a blue pen would dispense. It does write different than the standard ink some pens come with, cartridge ink for example. In the Pilot MR Animal, the pen wrote better than it had. I fell back in love with the pen after souring on it. In my moleskine there was significant bleed through and some feathering but in my Paperquest notebook there was none. This ink won’t break the bank and it’ll leave great vivid blue color on your pages. Terrific.

Eraser, search for "Ink Eradicator" Washable, add some Oxi-Clean. Great shade of blue, easy to read, and being a "dry" ink, it's friendly to cheap paper since bleeding is minimal. As far as performance, this ink writes well, dries fast, and strongly resists bleeding. It is not waterproof and is definitely not considered a permanent ink (don't write out your checks with this). Within two weeks of getting this ink, I thought I destroyed a shirt when a poorly capped pen stained my shirt very blue. First time out of the wash the blue was mostly gone; I tossed it back in and added some Oxy-Clean. Second time out of the wash and the blue was completely gone. Even from the seams, the blue ink was gone. Yes, this ink is washable. Super Pirat Ink Eradicator sold by Pelikan will "erase" this ink on paper. In facet most blue inks are designed to be washable which implies they're also erasable. Blue ink, specifically Royal Blue for Pelikan, was the color ink used in schools to teach kids how to write with a fountain pen. Can't have kids with permanent ink on their clothes, rugs, desks, etc, so that's why we have washable blue fountain pen inks for over a century. Blue ink cartridges are also erasable, as are straight "blue" inks from other vendors. Variation on blue, such as blue-black, or dark blue, need not be washable. But if the ink is described as "royal blue" or "blue," it is most likely washable/erasable. I've been collecting FPs for about a year, and this was news to me. For the same ink performance, but without the washability, any other color of the 4001 ink line will work.

This ink is perfect. German made perfection. I got back into the fountain pen writing after about 40 years. When I was a kid, I learned how to write using beautifully made, Chinese made fountain pens, back in the Communist Romania. That's all we had but they were great! We moved to the U.S. eventually and we never used fountain pens going to school here. I re-discovered the beauty of using a fountain pen through my daughter who loves to write. This ink is gorgeous. Smooth and dries to a perfect blue. I have no words how to describe it! It's the perfect blue. I got back into writing just so I can use my fountain pens. I takes me back in time almost instantly, every time I pick that pen and I start writing! Good stuff!