on saleRohrer & Klingner Verdigris - Ink Sample

This was part of my search for the perfect blue/black ink. This isn't it but it still is great. I mainly use lousy 20lb printer paper and it works fine. I've only used it in a modern pricey German safety pen so I haven't really pushed it with a good flex nib. On good paper my guess is it will do even better.

This ink flows smoothly and has a beautiful blue-black color, leaning more toward teal than purple. The color from my fine-point pens was a bit grayer than what appears in the sample on this page. The ink only disappointed me when I put a drop of water on the dry writing and the ink disappeared. If it had left any trace at all I would have given it a fourth star.

Nice dark teal, lots of feathering., especially on lower quality paper. On Rhodia or similar, there's no feathering at all. I have this loaded into my 1950's Eversharp Symphony 713. I haven't cleaned it out yet, but apparently these inks are easy to clean. I like that characteristic, especially because it's in a vintage pen with a lever/sac filler, which my Noodler's Bad Blue Heron was not exactly easy to get out.

It is a very attractive color but in my Lamy Safari fine nib on Clairefontaine paper, the color leans more to blue than to green as it appears on the swab. Otherwise I would have given it 5 stars, (which I to date have only awarded to Iroshizuku inks). It flow easily and evenly and dries quickly with good saturation. It is very high quality.

Blue green shading..good shading and flows well..can be used in business as an everyday ink...not water resistant.. Too bad.