Platinum Carbon Pen Ink - 60 cc Bottle - Black

I've been using this ink for about a month now in my Lamy Fine Point Safari. This pen travels with me everywhere, so the ink never gets a chance to dry up in the pen. This a very smooth black that, once it dries, stands up well to my watercolor washes without any smearing. I prefer Platinum Carbon to the Noodler's Bulletproof Black that I used to use.

Perfect ink!

Fantastic ink!!!
One of the only truly waterproof inks on the market. Noodler's claim is not exactly correct about their bullet proof inks. Though the parts of the ink that have bonded with celluloid are waterproof the other dye resting on top is not waterproof, don't be fooled. If you are doing watercolor washes over noodler's a a slightly gray wash will result! Carbon ink is the only fountain pen ink that is truly waterproof!

Feeds and works perfectly in my Pilot VP and even in all my cheap fiber feed pens like the petite and varsity.

Not as black as noodler's but is still very black, this ink is well into the black, black range even in a fine point pen.

It is also the smoothest ink I've ever used, the carbon particles lubricate the point very well.

Just don't let this ink dry out in your pen use it once or twice a week and don't store the pen with the ink in it. Heck if you let any ink dry in a good pen or store any pen with ink in it you've done a no,no.

The ink is indeed waterproof. It also dries quickly. BUT it is not very dark (more greyish than black), it tends to spread and feather on even good quality paper, and I would hesitate to call it fountain pen friendly. I filled a Lamy Safari I didn't care much for with it, and I used it every day for about two weeks. The ink stained the converter, and flushing it from the pen is proving to be quite a task. I will settle for using disposable drawing pens from now on. I just hope this ink hasn't totally destroyed my Safari.