Pelikan Blue Black

[JMP]

Pelikan Blue-Black was the first ink I ever bought when I first got into this hobby. At that time, the sample I purchased was a very washed out grey in every pen which I used it in. I think I eventually gave the bottle away and then set out on a quest to find a more suitable (in my mind) blue-black. I tried Watermans, and (like blackfox said above) found it to look nothing on paper like the color represented on the label. It was teal-green. I much preferred Sailor's Blue-Black, but when it came time for a re-purchase I found it unavailable. After seeing reviews like this one, I decided to give Pelikan Blue-Black another shot. Sure enough, this bottle is much more to my liking than the previous sample I tried. Either they have changed the formula recently, or else I just got a bad batch on my first attempt.

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Pelikan Blue Black is my current workhorse ink. It's quite water-resistant (~30seconds under a running tap without running, on 80gsm office copier paper) and it's ridiculously cheap over here.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Nice review, thank you. Most interesting color. I love your calligraphy as usual.

 

Regards,

777

 

 

What he said!!

 

I see this ink as a denim hue also---but now I have it slightly diluted in my Hero 86 Fude. And it's a bluish-gray in there.

 

A couple of years ago I found the big bottle at an art supply store for five bucks. I wish I'd gotten two.

[gadgetjunky]

Thanks for the review; it was really eye-opening. I had tried Pelikan blue years ago, dismissed it as being to thin / light, and never tried the Blue-black. A quick trip to the college book store and a little less that $6 later and now I am becoming a believer in it. I inked up a broad nibbed Levenger True-Blue Truewriter and a fine nibbed Parker 21 MKII and it preforms quite well in both of them. It is a little slow drying in the True-Blue, but the flow is great, color is perfectly acceptable and water resistance seems pretty solid.

[Russ]

Budget cuts at work forced me to begin using cheap scrap paper instead of legal pads. I had trouble with feathering until I went back to Pel Blue-Black and my Pel 140 with a broad nib. Now I get great shading, no feathering, and a quick dry. This is a very good combination of cost-savings and performance.

[..lol..]

Like this ink, but didn't found appropriate pen to use it yet.

BTW, nice review, like always

 

In my experience, this ink was bad only on my grey safari M nib. On EF nib this ink shows just a few grey undertones, enhancing the blue ones, but the best performance I had of this ink was in a Pilot 78G B-stub nib

[lambertiana]

This is one of my favorite inks. It has a nice medium-dark blue line from my M600 F nib, and over time slowly turns toward black.

 

Addressing the question of iron gall content, I emailed Pelikan a couple years ago. Their customer service rep forwarded my email to their ink formulator, who responded to her. I got that response (in German) forwarded along with the customer service response in English. According to their ink formulator, it does have a small amount of iron gall.

 

When I did side by side comparisons of Pelikan BB, Lamy BB, and Rohrer & Klingner Salix with my wet writing M405, I could hardly distinquish between them. But in water tests, the Pelikan does lose some of the blue component, while the other two were not affected by water at all.

[cartapluma]

I like this color too but seems to out of stock at the online stores. Anyonr know if they discontinued it? If you had to mix a Pelikan royal blu and btillant black to get a blue-black, how many parts of each would you need. 10 parts blue and 1 part black?

[tenney]

At the recent SF Pen show I bought the last two bottles of Pelikan Blue Black that Bjor had because she said that they were no longer importable into the U.S. due to some chemical issue.