For more than 50 years, beginning before reporters carried tape recorders, I've used the same Parker fountain pen during hundreds of newspaper interviews. I without paralysis of thumb and index finger because fountain pens skim across the surface of notepaper like an Olympic ice skater. My venerable Parker has recorded the words of John F. Kennedy, Billy Graham, a couple of popes and other headline-prone folks. It becomes harder and harder to buy a bottle of fountain pen ink. When I couldn't find any close to home I tried Amazon, and had my ink within 48 hours. It is great ink, and the service is worth writing home about. Parker Super Quink Permanent Ink for Parker Pens, 2-oz. Bottle, Black (3001100)
The bottle is nice, which is about all I can say for Parker's Quink. Perhaps back in the day it was an excellent ink but suffice to say the ink is not permanent. I've had the bottle for about a week now and I've used it to fill my fountain pen twice so far.
Firstly, the flow is not quite what I expected. It seems to stream out which didn't happen with my old ink, and it spreads across the page. I've never had this problem with other brand inks before.
Secondly, the ink is not permanent, not at all. I'm a physics major and I take a lot of notes in class. I had some notes on a large pad and it was raining the other day, when I opened my door to get everything out a few drops of rain landed on the pad, immediately the ink around the drops smeared and blotted. The notes are still legible but only because a very small portion of the notepad was rained on.
Overall I'm not particularly satisfied with the product. If you want a cheap ink for writing unimportant notes, this is it. If you're looking for a nice, dark, well-flowing permanent ink to take long-term notes with than I recommend Lamy inks.
I have two fountain pens I recently bought and needed some ink, obviously. I purchased this bottle of ink and its writes great. The ink drys quickly and it is very black. The only problem that I find is when this bottle gets low, I can't get my pen's cartridge in the bottle far enough to refill the ink without getting my hands covered in black ink, that is a nightmare to get off. I'd take that into consideration when looking for a bottle of ink.
Good ink. Writes smooth and flow is good. Great for use in taking notes or writing temporary messages.
If you are filling out important documents, signing contracts, writing checks, or anything that needs archival quality ink (won't fade with time and weather), you will need to use "Noodler's Bulletproof Black."
Parker Quink Ink is NOT permanent - not for important writing. The ink does wash away and is easily removed with a little effort.
Great for:
- Notes
- Handwritting Practice
- Temporary messages
Bad for:
- Checks
- Contracts
- Legal papers
- Archival papers (journals and records)
- Wet environments
- Mailing envelops
I have seven good fountain pens. This ink is in all of them. It doesn't bleed through the paper and washes off my hands when I get some on them. I've used these pens on many occasions when I wanted to write something down. This is the only ink that goes in them. I haven't seen any loss of quality in the pages I have written on during the past several months. I have ordered a bottle of blue ink just for variety. As far as I am concerned this is a high quality ink.
On a certain level ink is ink - how much more can you say about it? There certainly are questions of durability, strength, permanence (also known as washability), and the tendency to bleed through a typical sheet of paper. On those counts Parker's Quink is very strong in terms of durability and strength; sometimes a little too strong however. Bottled Quink can all too often bleed through less thick paper and even onto the sheet behind it, less than ideal under most circumstances. Quink works fine on heavier stock paper but anything less and you're likely to get a sloppy mess. I'd used Quink for ages, but after trying Sheaffer's Skrip I've made the switch on bottled ink. Yet the weird thing is I've never had this particular problem with the Quink in Parker's cartridges; they just don't demonstrate that tendency. Quink also used to be available in a broader array of colors, but now it's limited to a handful, which again isn't the case with Sheaffer's Skrip. Parker works fine in virtually every fountain pen out there so it really comes down to a matter of preference.'
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