Asvine Hongdian Fountain Pen Bottled Ink Blue, 60ml Bottle Ink for Fountain Pen Non Carbon

Currently the best value fountain pen ink on the market. I have three colors at the moment and plan on purchasing more soon. The colors are beautiful and really stand out without being obnoxious. I assume they are a dye based ink and it has great opacity. Really goes down smooth too with a quick dry time.

It is a nice shade of bluish green. It flows well through my fountain pen and I get a nice consistent line when writing. Like most fountain pen inks, it will smudge if you get it wet after the ink has dried. (It is NOT waterfast like ballpoint ink.) It is one of the most inexpensive inks on the market, and seems to be just as good as the more expensive brands. It is also readily available at Amazon, shipping free if you are a Prime member.

This ink is great! I used it in a Jinhao fountain pen and I love the color. The color is more of a dark turqiouse and leans very blue, but it is accurate to the product photos and I think it's beautiful. It didn't bleed much through regular printer paper and layered well. I love this ink for drawing and writing.

The ink in this product is excellent. It doesn't smudge, dries quickly, and the color is very vivid and expressive. I recommend it, especially since it's not overly expensive either.

This is a really lovely black ink. Works well with my fountain pen. Note, however, that the ink is NOT waterproof.

Really solid ink for the price. The bottle design is smart - wide enough to dip into easily and heavy enough not to tip over. The black color is deep and clean, not watery or gray like some cheaper inks. I’ve been using it in my Asvine V200, and it flows great with no clogs or leaks. Like a few other people mentioned, it can take a swipe or two to start if the pen’s been sitting, but once it gets going, it writes smooth and consistent. On Leuchtturm paper it holds up well - no feathering or bleed-through, even with heavier strokes. Honestly, this ink feels like something that should cost more. Definitely worth it if you’re into fountain pens and want a dependable everyday black.

This is a really good and underrated black ink. Its a nice deep dark black color. Of the 12 black inks I've tested, this is probably tied for 2nd or 3rd darkest. It may be difficult to tell in the picture, but its pretty clear in person. The darkest black is Cross Black. 2nd is a toss up between Noodler's X Feather, Kaweco Black Pearl, and Hongdian non carbon Black. Kaweco Black Pearl has a cool color temperature in some lighting conditions, X Feather seems neutral, and so does Hongdian non carbon Black. This Hongdian non carbon Black has good flow and is fairly smooth. It was well behaved on both ends of the nib spectrum - 1.9 Stub nib on one end (which is what I used in the picture for all of the writing samples), and a really tight Extra Fine nib on the other. I would put the amount of time it takes to dry in the medium range. It takes about 20 seconds to dry when using the 1.9 stub nib, which isn't too bad since it puts down a lot of ink. It only takes about a second to a second and a half when using the Extra Fine nib. It has pretty good water resistance, but its not as good as Noodler's X Feather in that regard. This leads to the one thing I don't like about this ink, which is that it turns purple when it gets wet. That is a minor pet peave of mine when dealing with black inks. I really prefer that they stay on the gray scale when they get wet. When cleaning out nibs or cartridge converters, this ink will turn a very deep purple when coming into contact with water and turns a nice light purple as it gets more diluted. When getting wet on paper, purplish color will come up off of the page first, but the color that remains on the page it still black, or sometimes charcoal gray depending on how much ink lifted off when it got wet. This ink is a great value and a real sleeper as far as black inks go. It will be in my regular rotation along with Noodler's X Feather and Cross Black (if I can ever find a bottle of it). Its also the least expensive of those 3. For what its worth, Kaweco Black Pearl is also pretty good except it has poor water resistance and doesn't flow for crap out of Extra Fine nibs. Hard Starts are the norm, and skipping isn't out of the question, which is why it won't be in my rotation once I am done with my cartridges. I haven't had any flow issues with it out of my stub nibs, but I need a black ink that works in Fine and Extra Fine nibs as well.

This lighter shade of blue really pops on white paper! It looks good on the cream colors too like rhodia and Mnemosyne. Great smooth ink, not too wet or dry, and just the right amount of lubrication. Very impressed with the quality of this ink, and especially for the price! I love blue inks, and typically am a darker blue to even blue/black ink user. But this really looks good and adds some mix to my typical shades. This ink performs better than some I’ve paid a small fortune for because I figured they had to have some “magic” in them for that high of a price. Boy was I fooled. This ink is easily worth twice the price…. Try it, you too might be as surprised as I was!!! 5 stars for sure!!

Parfait. Le produit correspond tout à fait à mes attentes.

Molto soddisfatto della qualità di questo inchiostro.

Goes perfectly with my Hongdian fountain pen.

Hongdian inks are just like the pens: just perfect. This here is a beautiful dark brown. I have already decided that I will buy it again. And also try the other colours

Very blackish. Not really green. I have to use it more and I hope it will grow on me!