Perfered School or Work Ink Color.

[Slush99]

Well, now I use an assortment of colors... purple, red, black, green, blue, orange, brown...

 

[Goodwhiskers]

I'm using Noodler's Legal Lapis (Pendemonium store) for recordkeeping now, which is somewhere between blue-green and blue-black (more blue than green, more blue than black).

 

It behaves better on bad paper than Noodler's Blue-Black does, but not as well as the champions on bad paper, Noodler's Black, new stock (Slovenia) Sheaffer Skrip Blue and Namiki-Pilot Blue.

 

Blue-black is a manufacturer's label more than a specific range of color, since blue-black inks look very different from one brand to the next.

 

For marking papers I rotate now between Sheaffer Skrip Red, Noodler's Red, Skrip Purple, Noodler's Green and Skrip Turquoise. The same color is used on any one paper for both corrections and praise.

 

I tried a cartridge of Lamy Violet. It's OK, but Skrip Purple lubricates writing more and behaves better on bad paper (I can't choose my students' paper).

 

Many FPNners have noted that Skrip inks (whether old stock or new Slovenian stock) do not lubricate writing when compared to Waterman, Noodler's, Private Reserve and Pelikan 4001. I can say that the new Skrip inks do lubricate writing more than Lamy inks, which are truly no-lube.

 

Other FPNners have noted that they don't like "slippery" writing, so I guess they would enjoy the feel of Skrip more than that of WM, N's, PR and P 4001.

Edited July 6, 2006 by Goodwhiskers

[chemgeek]

For notes and correspondence:

 

PR American Blue (I really like this--was shipped a bottle by accident)

PR Midnight Blues (Can't decide if I really like this color yet--has a green or teal undertone, not a pure dark blue)

Levenger Cobalt Blue (terrific color, but very prone to clogging in my Sailor 1911M--don't use it anymore--too bad)

 

For grading:

 

PR Dakota Red (Bright! Terrific flow.)

Levenger Cardinal Red (again, great color, but very clog-prone)

 

Cheers.

[BillTheEditor]

Desk pen (Parker 51): Noodler's Legal Lapis (checks, personal journal)

 

Editing copy (Parker 45): PR Dakota Red

Editing copy (Sailor Superscripsit): Noodler's Firefly

 

Drafts and notes: Noodler's Hunter Green,Eternal Brown, Blue (Am. Eel -- in a Kaweco Inkball pen modified to be an eyedropper fill), Iraqui Indigo, Black. Levenger Cobalt Blue. Quink Washable Blue. And, uh, pencil, though that doesn't count here.

 

Personal correspondence: Noodler's Luxury Blue,PR Lake Placid Blue, J. Herbin Vert Olive or Cafe des Iles, Noodler's Hunter Green (depends on the stationery).

 

On the road: Parker Quink cartridges in a Parker 45, PR Sonic Blue or Midnight Blues in a Kaweco AL Sport.

 

Rare occasions: Parker Penman Sapphire, Parker Penman Ruby (rationing my last bottles and cartridges of each)

 

Other stuff on the shelf, rarely used: Pelikan 4001 Black, misc. cartridges of black, couple of boxes of Lamy blue cartridges -- I like Noodler's better.

 

Waaaay too much ink around here!

Edited July 26, 2006 by BillTheEditor

[Grimoire]

I've been using MB ferro-gallic blue-black for years. Blue-black is a color almost exclusive to fountain pens. You can find almost every other color in gel pens, rollerballs, ballpoints, etc.; but blue-black is distinctive.

 

I also like the way MB blue-black ages, subtly changing color over time. I've never encountered the feed problems that supposedly are notorious with this ink, but then I do flush my pens with water at every refill.

[Lloyd]

I've never encountered the feed problems that supposedly are notorious with this ink, but then I do flush my pens with water at every refill.

 

 

MontBlanc recommends flushing every two weeks if you are using their blue-black.

[kissing]

it was a tough choice between black and blue-black, coz i like to use both for work.

 

But i chose black, coz i use it more often (my main writing)

 

i use Blue-black in my Calligraphy-Nibbed Sheaffer to do nice looking headings and titles

[Half Sigma]

I'm surprised that only 15% use something other than blue or black at work.

 

In an age when you can wear jeans and sneakers to work, I don't think anyone cares if you take notes at meetings in purple or turquoise.

[kissing]

I'm surprised that only 15% use something other than blue or black at work.

 

In an age when you can wear jeans and sneakers to work, I don't think anyone cares if you take notes at meetings in purple or turquoise.

It probably dates back to the periods we're at school

 

Most teachers wont like homework done in purple or turquoise, LOL

so Black and Blue go as default.

 

I cant imagine doing my notes in purple or turqouise though...it'll be hard to read them later (coz i have to make detailed study notes that go on for pages and pages) It'll be too dazzling to read, hehe

 

but nevertheless~~it'll look great

[parker]

all the peeps i know uses black inks so i use other colours except black. i prefer writing with purple/violet, greens and browns so i use...

 

for work:

-dark purple/violet (pelikan's violet and erm, parker black quink) in my lamy safari, which i also sometimes fill with sailor blue ink, beautiful blue colour;

 

-moss green (pelikan brilliant green with a bit of MB season greetings) in my tiny parker erm, 'jotter' (its a FP as small as the regular jotter pen.....i dunno wots it called really).

 

but for personal note taking, i love my herbin inks...lie de the and vert olive are just absolutely lovely.

 

(i normally dun mix inks cos from wot ive read its not really 'encouraged' erm...but i think its a bit addicting.......)

[Mac in Alberta]

For work: blue black for notes, green for rough comments thereon, Quark Xpress running under MacOS-X for writing, editing and layout. Then brown for proofreading.

 

I think I am shifting to blue to replace the blue-black because I like the contrast better with brown and green.

[smudgy]

For grading, I like Diamine Claret and Swisher's Apricot Orange. Oh, sometimes Diamine Monaco Red.

 

For correspondence, anything goes.

[Kalessin]

For the first 15 years of writing, I used blue-black most of the time, and black when I ran out. I think I thought it looked serious and authoritative or something

 

The whole staff at my office -- the IT infrastructure group for the Massachusetts Trial Court (we do servers and networks and datacenter operations) -- write in black ballpoint. I caused so much of a ripple when I asked our office manager to get me some blue ballpoint pens in the office supply that I gave up and bought my own.

 

I mostly use blue now, either PR DC Supershow Blue or Skrip (older stock, I haven't bought any Slovenian Skrip yet). I have a few Penman Sapphire cartridges left, they do fine in my Parker 75's, and I'll probably pick up a bottle of it one day before it's gone even off of ebay...

 

My father is a math prof, and he corrects homework and exams in black ink, and often solves problems in ink because his FP is closer to hand than a pencil.

Edited July 22, 2006 by Kalessin

[mike1]

I no longer go to school nor do I use a pen at work, but if I did blue/black would be my color of choice primarily because I'm basically pretty conservative.

[smudgy]

Grading: Diamine Claret

 

Correspondence: Waterman B/B or Noodler's Gulfstream Blue for parents or office personnel; whatever color is handy for fellow teachers.

[TMLee]

At work - Brown inks ...

 

so that if its faxed or photocopied , it still can be seen ...

[tonydacrow]

I like Noodlers La Coulor Royal (dk purple) for most writing and Noodler's Sagaro wine (magenta) for corrections. However, when I need an archival signature, I use either Noodler's Lexigton Grey or Noodler's Luxury Blue...

[Carrie]

Noodlers Zhivago for me. I guess it can look almost black out of some pens, but I like it which is odd because I don't like black inks at all.

[tonydacrow]

I find it VERY interesting that blue, black or blue-black hold over 74% of the votes while less than 15% voted on using any other color. I wonder what that means...

[maia]

I use blue, black and blue-black, though I find myself writing more with black inks (mainly Quink and cartridged 4001).