![]() Fountain pens are really made for dye-based inks, with dyes that dissolve easily and readily in water. Pigmented inks can and will block fountain pen feeds, if not sooner than later. Over here it is sold as an ink to be used for calligraphy with dip pens etc. But I tend to doubt he cleaned it much, if ever.Whatever the case with Pelikan Fount India, as it is a heavily pigmented ink I would like to warn against using it in a fountain pen. For 25-30 years, he only ever filled it with Parker Permanent Quink with Solv-X, widely regarded as one of the safest inks around. In contrast, the sac on my Dad's "51" (of which the Hero 616 is a clone, or a clone of a clone), looks like it's made of black butyl rubber. I have a Hero 616 I kept filled with HoD for the better part of a year, before switching over to Borealis Black, and its clear parts are only minimally stained, and it almost never gave me trouble with either ink. HoD has always readily rinsed off of any plastic surface it was on, for me at least, including pen parts. Bear in mind that it's only sold in a 4.5oz bottle accompanied by a pair of really inexpensive eyedropper pens (you never know whether they'll be converted Platinum Preppies, plain-barreled Noodler's Charlies, or the older Noodler's eyedroppers with colored blind caps, reviewed here as "Noodler's Ink Nikita Eyedropper Pen" - cos 4.5oz bottles of Noodler's Nikita were sold with them for a while). The lowest-maintenance, high-security ink around is (IMO) Noodler's Heart of Darkness. Secure inks are also always high-maintenance inks. I don't know if they understand or care about the needs of fountain pens, which are absolutely destroyed by any ink with shellac in it. ![]() Their core business is selling ink to the brush and dip pen crowd, for whom adding shellac to an ink is a virtue. But I don't think I'd have used Higgins in any of them, no matter what they say on their bottle. ![]() There's nothing wrong with cheap calligraphy pens. Please help! Which ink won't mess up my fountain pens? Thank you (I'm only stuck on Higgins because it's the cheapest I've found.feel free to suggest another brand, but stay on the cheap side please) I possibly have time to change my ink order to a non-waterproof dye-based Higgins ink, but will this be secure? Or I could get the Higgins eternal ink, which is a permanent non-waterproof Carbon writing ink. I watched a YouTube video from the goulet pen dude that mentioned that pigment-based inks could clog fountain pens. I purchased a bottle of Higgins ink labeled "calligraphy," but it said it could be used in fountain pens.(I also purchased a converter) I chose the waterproof pigment-based ink because I wanted a secure ink for writing checks and such, also for journaling so that if I spill water, the ink won't completely bleed off the page. It came with standard international ink cartridges. I have a fountain pen with a 1mm nib (this was actually a pen that came with a calligraphy set from Barnes and noble.I know, cringe) But, it is a good pen that writes very well.
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