on saleNoodler's Bad Belted Kingfisher - Ink Sample

Beautiful blue ink, fast drying, reliable. Just like the rest of Noodler's inks!

I bought this ink while trying out a variety of blues. I'm interested in only water-resistant inks and I love Noodler's value.

Eyedropped into a Platinum Preppy with an XF nib. On Rhodia, works beautifully. Flow is perfect. Very saturated color, almost blue-black. Color was my only disappointment; was hoping for a more vivid blue. But that's why Goulet offers samples. :-) Thanks again, GP!

I was looking for a permanent blue ink so I tried this and Liberty's Elysium. This is a nice alternative to black ink, but not what I was looking for. It's very dark. I like the vibrance of Liberty's Elysium more, but I would definitely use this in a situation where darker colors seemed more professional.

The Bad series are Nathan Tardif's response to a challenge he had running - remove his bulletproof black from paper without destroying it, and win a prize. It took an MIT student and a laser, but it was done. So the new inks, dubbed bad are now laser proof, as well as bulletproof (waterproof, bleach/ammonia proof, archival)It's also just a great, well behaved ink. The flow is excellent, the color is deeply saturated, there's very little shading, no sheen, very little feathering in a very wet F on the worst copy paper I have ever seen, almost no bleedthrough on said paper, and little to no showthrough. Dry times are instant on copy paper, average to quick on Rhodia. Like almost all Noodlers inks, no sheen or special color effects on good paper. The only downside (and this simply is unavoidable) is that on Rhodia, water will lift a little bit of the surface ink off, causing mild smearing, though the original lines where pen touched paper are still perfectly legible. On copy paper, almost nothing happens.When you need a professional colored ink that stands out just enough on documents as to indicate an original signature without bleeding or feathering like mad on whatever paper it's on (provided you use an F or EF nib) this blue-black has you covered.