Anybody Tried New Montblanc Calligraphy Inks

[visper]

Anybody had a chance to try these inks. I am interested to see the black ink comparison to standard MontBlanc Black.

 

Also how frequently would you wash your pen if use them.

[Pravda]

I received 2 complimentary bottles of Calligraphy Golden Yellow and Calligraphy Black with my purchase of the Gold Leaf 146 Solitaire.

 

The black is a straight up dark black. Unlike Mystery it doesn't shade and is much darker. Unlike Permanent Black it is not matte in color, but rather shiny.

 

The Golden Yellow is a brownish yellow. Very nice addition actually.

 

I think these inks (molded after India inks but not India themselves) do not shade because they're not watery in consistency and their pigmented nature makes them thick.

 

As with all permanent, iron gall or pigmented inks- I have a habit of never keeping them near empty (that's when staining or clogging increases in probability) and flush every 1-2 weeks. As I move various inks within my pens regularly, this is thus never a problem for me anyway as I do so naturally.

[Pravda]

[visper]

Thanks Pravda. I did not have a chance to try them. I wonder if they thicken more then usual permanent inks.

I am looking for some special black and thought that it might be the one. Would it be possible to provide a sample of comparison of that back with others?

Thanks

[visper]

Thanks a lot. It is very helpful. I like the gold/brown/yellow color mix - it looks quite specials

[Tom Kellie]

Montblanc Elixir Calligraphy Black

[Tom Kellie]

Black Inks by Montblanc

Three Montblanc Black Inks

[visper]

Hi Tom,

 

Thanks a lot thats exactly what I need. Which one of them do you prefer ?

[Tom Kellie]

Hi Tom,

 

Thanks a lot thats exactly what I need. Which one of them do you prefer ?

 

~ visper:

 

After longer use a preference may form.

As the Montblanc Elixir Calligraphy Black is freshly arrived, it's laregely unfamiliar.

Ask me again two months later and there may be a coherent reply!

Tom K.

[visper]

I want to get one as well to try. Just worried about the permanent ink for cleaning the pen.

[visper]

I want to get one as well to try. Just worried about the permanent ink for cleaning the pen.

[RitwijMishra]

 

 

Black Inks by Montblanc

Three Montblanc Black Inks

Thank you for comparing these.

 

To my (amateur) eyes, the Elixir Calligraphy Black and their regular Permanent one appear as having no noticeable difference in colour. This is pleasing because that would mean I would not let my mind stray from actual writing to fiddling around with this new black!

 

I dont find the price too steep to have dismissed the ink altogether if it were more intense than MBPB, which I use, and the fact that Montblanc did excavate some relatively obscure history for this line, implying that they do care for the primary market their niche has catered to in the past (writers, artists, calligraphers, intellectuals), is quite some allure to shrug off.

 

I ask this out of curiosity - do you believe that Montblanc Permanent Black too is pigment-based? Not being a collector, I have not enough experience with dye-based and pigmented inks to be able to tell the difference, so I would love to know whether the apparent similarity between the Elixir Black and the Permanent Black is only in their tint. Do they appear any different when sitting in the bottle? Is the flow similar enough? Their Permanent Blue, I suppose, is pigmented, seeing that in pictures of it, I have noticed the ink as appearing a certain shade of blue rather than black. This, coupled with the facts that Montblanc warns of high solids content in their ink literature and that my 149 B requires some cleaning if I am to use it again after having let it lay dormant for a day or two (this is rare enough), makes me somewhat suspecting (not fearful, mind you, since I do, and need to, clean my pen every two or three weeks anyway) that the Permanent Black too is perhaps pigment-based. It is an absurd query, but I would be grateful to know better the ink I prefer to use.

Edited October 21, 2019 by RitwijMishra

[gerigo]

These are sort of Montblanc's version of the pigmented ink that Sailor has with their Storia and their nano pigments. I found this out the hard way when I used it in a pen that is very prone to drying out very quickly. The yellow really clogged up this pen and it took a while to clean out. This will probably never happen in any Montblanc pens as theirs are engineered to be quite air tight.

[RitwijMishra]

These are sort of Montblanc's version of the pigmented ink that Sailor has with their Storia and their nano pigments. I found this out the hard way when I used it in a pen that is very prone to drying out very quickly. The yellow really clogged up this pen and it took a while to clean out. This will probably never happen in any Montblanc pens as theirs are engineered to be quite air tight.

As far as MB pens being air-tight is concerned, I can speak for the 149 I own that it certainly does not let ink dry out of it easily enough. When ink has long dropped to a level that cannot be gauged through the ink-view window, the pen still does not dry out for some time (capped) unless you exhaust the remainder of the ink by writing until the very last drop the feed can hold is laid on the page.

 

It is quite curious that Montblanc does not choose to market their regular permanent inks as being pigmented (assuming, of course, that they are indeed pigment-based, a property I am unsure we can associate with those inks). The Elixir line, on the other hand, are officially designated and being marketed as such.

[Jreugenl]

Hi. 

 

I'm reviving this thread since i'm interested in this particular ink. How does it compare to Permanent Black, especially with regards to smudging? And have anyone tried it in a MB 149 Calligraphy flex?