Monteverde USA Ink with ITF Technology, 30 ml Emerald Green (G309EG)

The is personally expressive pen ink, for when thoughts flow fluidly out of one's mind and the paper is there to catch it all. This is an ink you watch as it settles in the path of your moving nib, glistening liquid subtly changing surface tone as it reaches down into the fibers crossing under itself, and absorbs all but a few wavelengths of light from above. The mind, the hand, the reservoir pen succoring its blæc charge, all move on, leaving a lone testament to inform the ages, silently, but mightily in repose,Copper NoirPowerful and Enough !Pen juice to express the fruits of your mind.Yea, I like it.

I love using this ink for my notes. It dries really quickly and contrasts well with a bolder, black ink I use for my headings. I haven't tried highlighting it yet to see how well it holds up there, but I rarely use highlighters anyway. It's a solid ink at a great price and was shipped quickly as well. What more can you ask for?

Monteverde inks are, in my opinion, the best value out there. $8 for 30ml?! For this color and quality?! Crazy. Like most of their other inks, the California Teal performs excellently. It's wet, extremely saturated, just a touch of sheen. The color on this stands out for me, a beautiful, deep teal. One of my favorite Monteverde inks and one of my favorite teals.

I had received a sample of this ink and I fell in love with it and I had to have it! It matches my LAMY AL Star fountain pen, that is in Lilac, perfectly. The seller is great. Quick shipping and packaged well.

When it comes to fountain pens, the ultimate ink for me is black, and the paper white, for classic clarity of my writing. Some think black ink is boring, and that black ink is black ink. They're quite wrong. Appreciation of the variety in black inks requires a much more discerning eye that can detect the nuances of each ink. Granted, it's not one of the glittery shimmery inks (although there are blackish inks available with glittery flecks), nor is it a flashy color. It's rock solid classic black. It stands tall on the page. It makes a statement.Raven Noir is my first Monteverde ink, and my twenty-third black ink. Yep, 23rd. I have been writing with fountain pens for quite a while. I have extensive samples of them all, on various paper, and using pens with various nib widths. For comparison and consistency, I use a 6mm poster nib on a dip pen, so I can readily examine the qualities of each ink, on HP Premium 32 lb. paper, and usually samples also on the exceptional Rhodia, Calirefontaine and Tomoe River papers.Now, ravens are my favorite bird, and I love watching them. Noir is my favorite film genre, and I love watching them. How could I pass up an in called Raven Noir? Yep, I bought it based on its name. I stayed for its beauty and performance. It has become one of my favorite inks.I use mostly broad, stub and italic nibs. Most of my writing with this ink has been on a broad #6 nib. It's a wet one, and shows off whatever ink is running down it. The ink itself is medium to dry. Monteverde inks contain lubricants, and it flowed flawlessly for me. There is no shading. There is only the slightest sheen, and only on the Tomoe River paper. It won't be noticeable in most cases. The drying time was impressive for such a wet broad nib: 7 seconds on HP Premium 32 lb, 20 seconds on Rhodia 21.3 lb, and 60 seconds on Tomoe River. I have not experienced smearing or smudging. Raven Noir feathers on copier paper, moderate feathering on HP Premium 32 lb, but no feathering on Rhodia or Tomoe River. Monteverde claims that the lubricants make for extended cap-off time, and it's true. I don't have to worry about taking a little time before I start writing again. The writing performance was very satisfactory; the kind of ink that makes you want to just keep writing and writing.How does it stack up against my other 22 black inks? In terms of blackness, it's in the top seven or so. It's not as black black as the infamous black blacks, such as Noodler's Heart of Darkness, Noodler's Black, or DeAtramentis Document Black. In terms of how opaque it is, it's somewhere in the middle of the pack. There is a very slight purplish tint, and chromatography showed a fascinating and complex layering of colors: green, blue, blue-gray, brown and even a pink.I love this ink, and that says a lot, as I'm quite picky about my inks. It will stay in my black ink rotation. I'll also be checking out more Monteverde inks.

Not as good value as Noodlers - but, nothing really is and this does work well and is smooth to write with.Documental blue color is very similar to Waterman Serenity Blue from what I've noticed. Dark deep blue to start then lightens up (opposite of normal iron-gall which darkens).

I used this with a Montblanc pen and Schaefer pen. Both pens have fine nibs. The ink made a thicker line, more like a medium nib, particularly in my Montblanc pen. This made the ink ghost through to the back of the page. I have been using private reserve tanzanite ink as well as Montblanc royal blue ink and didn’t have that problem before. Also, the color was a bit disappointing. I read one review where the color was compared to private reserve tanzanite, it is definitely dark purple, so dark that even on white paper it’s hard to see that it’s even purple. When it comes to the gemstone Sapphire, it’s nothing like that color. I do have to say that the lubrication in the ink does make smooth writing. If you have an extra fine nib and you don’t like the way it feels when writing then this is your ink. Also, it’s waterproof as my hands will attest.

This is a beautiful colour ink. A rich shade of green. The one minus is that it doesn't seem to like cheaper paper with a Medium nib as the bleed through is quite bad. If possible use better quality/thicker paper, or use a Fine/Extra Fine nib.

Vraiment une encre imperméable. La couleur est d'un bleu assez moyen, mais l'encre est waterproof au même prix qu'une bouteille de waterman ou pelikan.

Bought this as i wanted something office friendly but found standard black and blue inks boring. This is a really nice blue/black ink. Flows well and doesn’t skip in any of my pens. Works great on my rhodia notepad and still good on standard office copier paper when signing documents.

Une belle encre rouge-brun, dommage qu'amazon ait décidé de ne plus la stocker.

L'inchiostro ha un buon colore (anche se risulta un pò chiaro), è dotato di tecnologia ITF che consente di lubrificare il gruppo alimentazione della penna ed il converter/caricamento a stantuffo mantenendo la penna in uno stato di conservazione migliore rispetto ad un normale ink.Nota dolente il prezzo: €12.00 per 30 ml. La concorrenza (ndr Noodler's) produce inchiostri con tecnologia simile a ben 1/3 del prezzo e con colorazioni più sature e vivide.NB.: Noodler's eel blu/black ha un prezzo di €14.90 per ben 90 ml di prodotto.