Parker Super Quink Ink

[Enss327]

Is the Parker super quink black ink a fast dry and does it bleed through, Can anyone please comment about the ink because I am looking for a black ink that dries fast and doesn't bleed through any paper

[psfred]

Super Quink is a older style ink that is usually very well behaved (decent flow, low feather and bleed, etc) but isn't very black. It will bleed through on low quality paper, every ink including Noodler's X-Feather will bleed and feather on some papers in my experience. Quink is as good about resistance to bleed and feather as any standard ink, though.

 

It does have a reputation for clogging some pens, and I have had it clog a few, particularly those which had poorly sealing inner caps. Most of the time it's fine, though.

 

I've had a bottle of it for decades, but don't use it much, it's not an ink I really care for because it's too light in the types of pens I prefer (very fine nibs), but other people use it all the time.

 

It has typical water resistance for a 1950's style black ink -- when a page gets wet, it will still be legible but the ink smears badly and looks terrible.

 

Peter

[The Good Captain]

I've only some of the Permanent Blue-Black but it's nice to use. It came in one of the white-capped diamond-shaped bottles, about 1/3 full but I decanted it into a Sheaffer bottle (new sort) and it fills that to the brim so there shouldn't be any more evaporation. It does bleed through a bit on some papers though but the smell of it makes up for its faults!

[mazinger55]

For me is the best ink , the solv X is perfect, blue, black, red is superb, blue-black: At this time I use All this old inks with all my fountain pens, the next photos are of my ink collection.

[welch]

The smell of Quink with Solv-X is the smell of INK...not just some fancy eye-grabbing liquid coloration, but real ink!!

 

(Still available in Camlin and Chelpark inks from India, by the way.)

[Parker Quink Turquoise]

I have used solv-x Parker Super Quink and Parker Quink for years.I do not see any difference in the ink.I believe the Super was just something added by the advertizing department.

[i.like.whiskey]

  On 12/16/2012 at 7:02 PM, mazinger55 said:

For me is the best ink , the solv X is perfect, blue, black, red is superb, blue-black: At this time I use All this old inks with all my fountain pens, the next photos are of my ink collection.

 

NICE bottles! Those are amazing. Have you ever encountered problems with mold or gunk in large bottles? I've considered purchasing large bottles but have been fearful of getting SITB.

Also, nice library. I've never seen Feynman, Homer, Nietzsche, Newton, or Tolkein in spanish.

[mazinger55]

  On 12/22/2012 at 7:56 AM, i.like.whiskey said:

NICE bottles! Those are amazing. Have you ever encountered problems with mold or gunk in large bottles? I've considered purchasing large bottles but have been fearful of getting SITB.

Also, nice library. I've never seen Feynman, Homer, Nietzsche, Newton, or Tolkein in spanish.

Excuse me to respond one year later...... no mold or gunk problems. Go for one of this bottles, tons of ink for the pleasure of write with your fountain pens...... jajaja yes, all of these authors are in spanish.....

[dcwaites]

At one stage, Parker Super Quink Black was the recommended third-party refilling ink for HP inkjet cartridges (the very original ones). However it only worked for about 3 refills, as after that the ink ate away at the jets. However, you did get three refills for about $0.50 each.

 

As Parker Quink Turquoise said above, the difference between the bottles of Super Quink and the bottles of Quink was the word 'Super' on the label.

[leejo]

Hello, sorry to bump this whole thread, but it seems that wikipedia has wrote that this ink is actually quite harmful to fountain pens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quink

Just wondering if this is true, because I have recently used this on my Pilot Con-20. Love the ink and the smoothness but my rubber sac has deformed...

[Luishomero19]

I have used quink for close to 35 years whithout any trouble, mostly parker's fountain, recetly gota a Lamy safary for diary use and no problem at all.

Here an extract of what is in Wikipedia about quink and 51 model pen:

 

A common misconception about Quink is that it was intended primarily for the Parker 51, which generated over 400 million dollars in sales during its thirty-year history. While Quink was ideal for use with the 51, Parker's other pens of this generation were just as capable of using it. The Parker 51 was only made available in 1941, ten years after Quink's development. Two inks that were best used with the 51 specifically were the later fast-drying Double Quink and the extra-fast Superchrome.

[Luishomero19]

Not opened yet this 32oz of blueblack super quink

[Luishomero19]

This Is my non opened superquink blue black 32oz bottle

[ps4ever]

Quink is fantastic ink. It is perfect for wet writers because it cuts down feathering and bleed through to almost zero on all but the most absorbent paper. I always write on dollar lined pads, and do not buy "special" papers for fountain pens. I have lots of black Skrip, and this ink is too watery for wet writing pens and regular paper. I used the same pens and same paper with black Quink. No feathering (or virtually none) and no bleed through. I am permanently switching over to Quink because it is the perfect option for me: relatively inexpensive, non-clogging, and non-feathering. A big improvement over Skrip.

[ps4ever]

  On 9/23/2016 at 3:53 AM, Luishomero19 said:

I have used quink for close to 35 years whithout any trouble, mostly parker's fountain, recetly gota a Lamy safary for diary use and no problem at all.

Here an extract of what is in Wikipedia about quink and 51 model pen:

 

A common misconception about Quink is that it was intended primarily for the Parker 51, which generated over 400 million dollars in sales during its thirty-year history. While Quink was ideal for use with the 51, Parker's other pens of this generation were just as capable of using it. The Parker 51 was only made available in 1941, ten years after Quink's development. Two inks that were best used with the 51 specifically were the later fast-drying Double Quink and the extra-fast Superchrome.

The Parker 51 ink and Superchrome were some of Parker's mistakes. They were horrible substances. Most pen enthusiasts pay reverential homage to the 51, whether it is their favorite pen or not. It was brilliant, and it's durability is legendary. That durability came about because of the toxic waste dump of 51 ink. The pen and the ink were developed together. The pen is so strong because they had to design a pen with plastic that could withstand that noxious substance. The leprous elixir was harmful even to the 51, rotting out diaphragms rapidly, corroding breather tubes, and discoloring ply-glass reservoirs. But the mistake of 51/Superchrome ink produced a great pen, that works perfectly with Quink. But that 51/Superchrome was nasty stuff that dried really only slightly faster than Quink anyway.

[ps4ever]

  On 12/19/2012 at 11:47 AM, Parker Quink Turquoise said:

I have used solv-x Parker Super Quink and Parker Quink for years.I do not see any difference in the ink.I believe the Super was just something added by the advertizing department.

Super Quink, New Quink, and Quink are all the same. Double Quink, 51, and Superchrome all refer to the poison the 51 pen was suppose to drink. Or so I have read.

[Corona688]

No.

  Quote

Quink is not to be confused with two iterations of a special ink formulated exclusively for use in the Parker 51. This ink was highly alkaline and while water-based, also included a substantial amount of isopropyl alcohol. It was released in 1941 as "51" ink, along with the Parker 51 pen; in 1947 it was made somewhat less corrosive, and renamed "Superchrome". Parker was careful to print prominent warnings on caps, labels, and boxes that the ink could only be used in the 51 (and, later, its economy version, the 21), and would damage any other pen.

...though I don't understand what's supposed to be so corrosive about isopropyl alcohol.

Edited March 17, 2018 by Corona688

[dcwaites]

  On 3/17/2018 at 2:27 PM, Corona688 said:

No.

 

...though I don't understand what's supposed to be so corrosive about isopropyl alcohol.

 

Isopropyl alcohol would eat away at latex ink sacs in other pens, and quite possibly cellulose and BHR bodies and ebonite feeds.

Not to mention the other, unknown, corrosive compounds. One way to change the colour of a dye is to change the pH of what it is dissolved in. I don't know, but perhaps these inks were relatively acidic or basic.

 

However, Parker Quink, Super Quink, Quink with or without Solv-X, is quite safe for pens.

[welch]

  On 12/20/2014 at 2:04 PM, leejo said:

Hello, sorry to bump this whole thread, but it seems that wikipedia has wrote that this ink is actually quite harmful to fountain pens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quink

Just wondering if this is true, because I have recently used this on my Pilot Con-20. Love the ink and the smoothness but my rubber sac has deformed...

 

The Wikipedia article, now, does not say that Quink is harmful to fountain pens. It mentions Parker's Superchrome / Parker 51 ink, but Superchrome was a different ink, one that Parker warned should only be used in a P-51. Both Quink and Suoerchrome had Solv-X, but Parker advertised Superchrome as formulated only for the P-51.

 

Incidentally, Parker said that Superchrome had 3 - 10 times more dye than other inks...maybe the original saturated ink. "Super brilliant...super permanent...super dry" meaning it dries instantly on paper.

 

See https://www.ebay.com/itm/Parker-Ink-40s-Quink-Superchrome-Parker-51-Solv-X-Print-Ad-Advertisement-1948/151626529491?hash=item234da53ad3:g:~JIAAOSwYGFUvYhA

 

Note that the same advertisement mentions Quink "for all conventional pens".

Edited March 31, 2018 by welch

[Corona688]

  On 3/18/2018 at 6:09 AM, dcwaites said:

Isopropyl alcohol would eat away at latex ink sacs in other pens, and quite possibly cellulose and BHR bodies and ebonite feeds.

Not to mention the other, unknown, corrosive compounds. One way to change the colour of a dye is to change the pH of what it is dissolved in. I don't know, but perhaps these inks were relatively acidic or basic.

 

However, Parker Quink, Super Quink, Quink with or without Solv-X, is quite safe for pens.

I've been digging into data about surface tension and finally think I can shed some light on this. TL/DR, I'm guessing the nasty part of Superchrome was Ethanolamine or something similar. Why? Alcohols all have really low surface tension which means they won't wick up a feed readily, something the usual flow agents can't help. Most things which might help either don't help enough, stay wet forever, or both.