Parker Quink Black

[bokaba]

Parker Quink Black on Rhodia Dot Pad in Wing Sung (F)

 

 

Flow: moderately wet

 

Feathering/bleed: very little

 

Dry Time: less than 5 seconds

 

Saturation: medium

 

Color: medium black with slightest hint of purple (not super dark like Aurora or gray at all)

 

Value: excellent, $8 for 57ml

[Eclipse157]

Thank you for the review. Reminds me of Diamine Quartz Black, which I like a lot.

[timotheap]

I've always find that black to be lacking in "normal" fountain pens. But Noodler's Ahab lays a very wet line and makes this a real black that I like a lot.

 

I wonder: how do you know that the ink is not lubricated? (besides the fact it doesn't mention "lubricating" on the bottle). Do you feel the difference when an ink is?

 

Timo

[DonM]

I'm afraid that I have to make the same comment about this review as the one you did on Lamy Blue Black. The color is not representative of the ink because the photo is washed out. The photo shows it as much lighter than it really is. Take a look at how light the dots on the Rhoda paper are in the photo compared to real life. You need to adjust the exposure on whatever camera or phone you are using to take the pictures.

[Mercian]

Do you know whether your Quink Black is the ‘Washable Black’, or the ‘Black’?
Also, do you know if turns to a grey-gren-teal colour when exposed to light or when written on paper that contains sulphates/sulphites?

 

The turn-of-the-century version did, and my dislike for that colour change was the thing that turned me ‘off’ the black and blue-black inks made by Parker, and got me buying inks made by other manufacturers instead.

 

Which might sound trivial, but when I was growing up in a rural bit of England’s Midlands, Parker pens were thought of as ‘the’ pens, and so of course we kids bought their cartridges and their inks.
As such, deciding to buy converters and switch to inks made by different companies was (for me at least) something of a

[bokaba]

To address the darkness/contrast issues, I scanned a swatch with no changes to contrast and once with 10% contrast increase. To my eyes, the Quink is much darker in person than the original, but I could be mistaken. I wouldn't call it a jet black ink like Aurora, Monteverde, or Pilot though it is darker than a mere gray.

 

 

Second, I don't see any off color tones in the ink. Perhaps the slightest purple/brown, but no greens, teals, blues, etc. I think it is a pretty good staple, no frills black ink.