on saleLAMY blue black - 50ml Bottled Ink

Beautiful blue-grey colour. It dries wicked fast and shades nicely.

Great if you can’t decide wether you want blue or black

Beautiful color! I don't like very bold/saturated colors so this is absolutely perfect. A professor commented on how pretty the color was while I was taking a quiz lol. It works well on normal notebook paper (I've been writing on a lot using a 5 star notebook and a composition notebook) and doesn't bleed through the paper unless you ink up a spot a lot. Like when making bullet points, I just need to be a LITTLE careful with how much ink I'm putting down. This has only been a problem with my normal notebook and some printer paper. Not with my composition notebook. Absolutely fell in love with this and I'm looking forward to buying another color in the future! Might get the Mango, Topaz, or Peridot next :)

Lamy T52 inks are a really great offering in the market, being inexpensive, easy to use, and very practical. They are low maintenance, and the bottle design is terrific. The Lamy T52 Black is one of the better standard black inks available on the market. That being said, I continue to struggle with the Blue Black ink in particular. I just can't seem to find a place for it. The color is a solid, neutral blue black firmly in the "grey" palette. This makes it a really solid entry in terms of color to the vintage looking blue black inks. However, I find that the color just doesn't have the pop that other blue blacks would in terms of interest. It's almost *too* neutral. Lamy Crystal Benitoite is similarly "muted" but more interesting, IMO. One problem is that this ink is no longer iron gall, which means that it has very little long term permanence. Lamy touts their standard T52 Black and Blue Black inks as being very permanent provided that they are kept away from light and moisture, and I don't doubt this, but the Lamy Black is also a pretty decent ink in the face of light and water, given that it is a low maintenance, water-soluble ink. However, the Blue Black doesn't seem to hold up as well. To compound this issue, the ink writes very dry for me, and doesn't lay down much saturation in the line. This creates a pretty vacuous feeling on the page, that isn't necessarily that pleasant to watch dry or write with. It just doesn't look, feel, or stay that well. That puts it firmly in the category of "meh" for me. Fix any one of these issues (that is, if it were wetter, more permanent, or had a more sophisticated color on the page) and I think I could get behind it, but at the moment, it doesn't have anything that I want. It is very well-behaved, though, so if you want something that will work on less fountain pen friendly paper, then this would be a viable option.

I love the ink. I also love the Lamy2000 but the line weight changes based on the ink I use. It'sWeird.