AsvineHongdian Fountain Pen Bottled Ink Blue, 60ml Bottle Ink for Fountain Pen Non Carbon

Great ink! Smudge resistant, dries fairly fast. Nice texture and depth of color. Easy to use, and works very nicely with my Lamy with refillable well.

Beautiful medium blue color with hints of green; a shade or two darker, but not very much greener, than the Sky Blue option from the same company (which I also have and use). Flows equally well in fountain pens and on glass dip pens; on dip pens with metal nibs, I find the performance depends very much on the shape of the nib and whether there's a reservoir. I would consider this a relatively "liquid" ink - it flows easily in every pen I've tried, and that's often a struggle for me as I have hand pain that can make it awkward to apply the pressure needed with higher-viscosity inks. Great value for the money, would recommend. Ease of use:Nice-sized opening at bottle top, neither too wide nor awkwardly narrow; cap has a gasket for a secure fit. The bottle itself has a good "heft" to it, and is significantly wider at the base than at the top - very stable, which is a real plus if (like me) you are prone to knocking things over!!

This ink is great! I use it in my hongdian M2 brass and it has a very consistent flow while writing. You will have to let it dry a little before touching so you don’t smudge what you write. As long as it’s like 10 seconds and you are layering it, there are low chances of smudging. It has a good consistency of color for shading. If you are using plunger refills on your pens, it’s very easy to use. I think it was worth every penny as a beginner in fountain pens.

Bought the peacock blue which is a beautiful turquoise. Works well with the dip pen I have and ink flowed smoothly. Unfortunately it does bleed a LOT on any paper with the remote chance of bleed.

I ordered the peach blossom color ink, and it’s the perfect spring pink shade. I swatched it immediately when it arrived, and it really is so lovely. The glass bottle and metal lid are very sturdy, no worries of leaking. The box has a little seal on it in the color of your ink that says “We are willing to serve everyone who takes a pen”. I have purchased several HongDian fountain pens as well, and they are really top notch. I’ve been a fountain pen user for 7 years now, and my collection ranges from Montblanc, all the way to Jinhao’s, and HongDians. Back to the ink. It has a very lofty, delicate, yet saturated color, and I like it very much. It shades beautifully as well. There is definitely enough ink to last me years. I’ve already got a pen inked with it, and it writes beautifully, and looks lovely on Tomoe River paper. Excellent quality, and I won’t hesitate to buy HongDian ink again in the future.

I love using fountain pens. I just feel more grownup and/or fancy. I've been buying cheaper ink cartridges for my fountain pens but decided I wanted to see what other options are out there and how the quality differs.I very much love this color, it's black with subtitle green, very hard to tell at a distance that its not black. Very easy to fill my fountain pen and seems to be lasting me quite a while.I will say I have yet to complete an ink refill without ending up with ink on my hands. I know that's a hazard of this type of pen. But I wipe off the container after each fill but every time I open the lid, there's a new stain on my fingers. It does clean off fairly easy, the foaming soap at my work place doesn't really do a good job of cleaning the ink but the better hand soap i have at home seems to do a nice job of getting the ink out.I haven't had any issues with excessive/runny ink and it does seem to dry fairly quickly. I use a very fine tip for my pen so there's not a ton of ink used unless I'm just holding the pen on the paper. I'm definitely going to try some of their other colors next.

This is a really good and underrated black ink. Its a nice deep dark black color.Of the 12 black inks I've tested, this is probably tied for 2nd or 3rd darkest. It may be difficult to tell in the picture, but its pretty clear in person. The darkest black is Cross Black. 2nd is a toss up between Noodler's X Feather, Kaweco Black Pearl, and Hongdian non carbon Black. Kaweco Black Pearl has a cool color temperature in some lighting conditions, X Feather seems neutral, and so does Hongdian non carbon Black.This Hongdian non carbon Black has good flow and is fairly smooth. It was well behaved on both ends of the nib spectrum - 1.9 Stub nib on one end (which is what I used in the picture for all of the writing samples), and a really tight Extra Fine nib on the other.I would put the amount of time it takes to dry in the medium range. It takes about 20 seconds to dry when using the 1.9 stub nib, which isn't too bad since it puts down a lot of ink. It only takes about a second to a second and a half when using the Extra Fine nib.It has pretty good water resistance, but its not as good as Noodler's X Feather in that regard. This leads to the one thing I don't like about this ink, which is that it turns purple when it gets wet. That is a minor pet peave of mine when dealing with black inks. I really prefer that they stay on the gray scale when they get wet. When cleaning out nibs or cartridge converters, this ink will turn a very deep purple when coming into contact with water and turns a nice light purple as it gets more diluted. When getting wet on paper, purplish color will come up off of the page first, but the color that remains on the page it still black, or sometimes charcoal gray depending on how much ink lifted off when it got wet.This ink is a great value and a real sleeper as far as black inks go. It will be in my regular rotation along with Noodler's X Feather and Cross Black (if I can ever find a bottle of it). Its also the least expensive of those 3.For what its worth, Kaweco Black Pearl is also pretty good except it has poor water resistance and doesn't flow for crap out of Extra Fine nibs. Hard Starts are the norm, and skipping isn't out of the question, which is why it won't be in my rotation once I am done with my cartridges. I haven't had any flow issues with it out of my stub nibs, but I need a black ink that works in Fine and Extra Fine nibs as well.