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Rethinking my Black Ink only policy

I am not a very "flair-y" person, nor am I a huge fan of colors. I tend to own things nice, dark, solid colors. Still, one of my favorite colors, when mixed with a black or dark red, is a very dark green, and if I can't have very dark than an emerald green. Since I was trying to pad an order from Goulets after spending a few hours on this sub-forum, I decided to throw in a few colored inks, of which my wallet might regret now.
Since this order, I have now ordered sample tubes (to carry colors around), syringes to fill them, converters, and trying to consider cartridges vs converters pre-filled and sealed for use. While I am not sure I can write in some of the colors you guys have, I can certainly see branching out one little step at a time.

What interesting things shall follow. :) Sorry for the sloppy writing, usually I am neater. I need lines to excel with my writing.

Again, thanks to the forum I got to see new things, but my wallet.. my wallet hates B&B with all the passion that a long dead cow stuffed with paper and plastic can possibly muster.

Can't believe I made a typo while writing in the image. This is why I shouldn't write while I try to get someone to figure out how to left click a button on the screen. >_< I think the minute feathering (hard to see i the pic) is due to the water that might still have been in the nib, and the printer paper. It wasn't because of the paper, oh and the paper.. and may have been related. Bleh.
 

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The world of inks can be a worse AD then Pens. Samples of all sorts of inks will help you decide on colors. I used to be a blackity blackity black person. But now I have far to many colored inks and love every one of them.
 
For me, all the different inks are a big part of the fun with fountain pens!
I never would have believed I would own 2 different bottles of purple ink...
 
So how do you swap the inks out? Do you have on hand converters? Or do you just empty the ink back into the jar and fill from another?
 

oc_in_fw

Fridays are Fishtastic!
Variety is the spice of life. I am a pretty laid back guy, but I really like inks like Bay State Blue and Black Swan in Australian Roses.
 
So how do you swap the inks out? Do you have on hand converters? Or do you just empty the ink back into the jar and fill from another?

I always have more than one pen inked up at a time. Right now I have 5 inked. I use them until they run dry (or I want to clean them out before) and either re-ink them, or choose different pens to ink.
 

strop

Now half as wise
I think the general approach by most of us it to use a color/ink until the pen is empty. Occasionally at work I'll refill with the same brand and color without flushing all the old ink out. Every time I put a pen away for a while, though I'll flush it.

Even after the cartridge or converter is empty, there will still be quite a bit of ink in the feed. If you change brands and colors at this point there is potential for problems due to incompatibility and can gum up the works.

I really can't see how you could seal a converter and carry it around until you are ready to use it. It sounds to me like a mess waiting to happen, and you'd still have the issue I mentioned above with incompatibility. If you're filling from a sample bottle, I'd just take the sample bottle to work with me and refill from that if it runs empty.

I would suggest trying Five O'clock Shadow, B&B's own ink. Almost black with hints of green. Zhivago is another. Diamine Denim is a very dark blue-black to look at as well.

Like Brian, I used to be a mostly black ink user. Now I rarely use a "pure" black ink.
 
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