Parker Fountain Pen Ink Black 57ml

It's not an exaggeration. For me, this is the best black ink currently in production. For some context, I never thought i would even use Quink- I have always been satisfied with the legendary 7 Skrip inks (five of them are, for me, the archetype of their colour class: Black, Red, Peacock, Turquoise and my favorite Blue-Black). These are inks from a time when an ink didn't have to have a catchy name or flashy packaging- All of them are definitive ink their respective colour classes. For reasons I will never understand, Sheaffer discontinued them after 60 years and relaunched new colours. At least they brought back the rather awesome old bottle style... but I find their complete antipathy of heritage insulting. Because I use both vintage pens and fairly dry pens, I needed a non-alkaline, low-viscosity, unsaturated black ink. Skrip has always been my go to. It handles fairly well on crappy paper and really makes every pen -particularly dry ones - feel better. That ink had an 'oily' feel to it and though it is a less saturated ink, often as a result of the good flow, it will show darker than other more saturated inks. And it cleans out of any pen with water only. (In fact, I have sometimes used skrip to help 'flush out' stains or old, dry ink from a feed.. )There are plenty of inks that have two of the three above qualities. Two inks left that do all three: Waterman and Parker. Of the two, Parker is the one i prefer. It still does all of the things that Skrip did just about as well. They both have a nice warm tone to my eye. For clarification, I love and use Aurora, Herbin, Sailor Black, Pelikan 4001 and Diamine Onyx black, but in this one context, Quink reigns supreme. For vintage/ wet pens I use Pelikan. As Quink is the most general use and friendly ink, usable throughout the most applications, I value it the most. The price does not hurt as well. I'll use Perle Noire or Kaweco Black Pearl in vintage pens too, but those (and Aurora) are so saturated, it's harder to clean them out. Also, Kaweco is soo wet, it feathers very easily on lesser paper. None of these inks, to my knowledge, are permanent on paper, Pelikan and Herbin probably do the best in this regard.