Dero black. Smooth in several pens and nibs

Great ink for beginners and experts alike. Nice crisp line with a fine nib. Good flow, fast drying. Leaves no residue when cleaning the pen.

This standard dark black ink consistently delivers reliable performance. It is compatible with a wide range of everyday paper types and is highly recommended for students.

True Black, great color! I had no idea about the bottom half paper dispenser!

Wonderful ink. Elegant bottle

This was my first ink when introduced to fountainpens, and for drawing/sketching, I really like how I can take a waterbrush to it

As described. I look forward to using it.

Great Value

Using an extra fine nib, this ink is dark and is so perfect for my writing style, which is print block all caps. Could not be happier.

The ink is very dark, creating a nice thick black line even with finer nibs. One downside is that it takes quite a long time to dry. Even being right handed, I find myself smudging the end of the line above the one i'm currently writing.

It's a good ink. I was hoping it would be the same as the Lamy cartridge ink, but it's slightly different - less dark, but also dries faster. Overall a very classic useful black ink. I've been using it in a Lamy AL-star, so very compatible. Flows well. It's a great ink for the price point. Will last a long time. I'm not a big fan of the paper spool at the bottom for wiping the nib, seems extraneous and I don't like the plastic container for the paper spool.

I really like this ink. My only problem has been with the blotting paper jamming when I try to pull some out. Not a huge problem, but a little frustrating. Would purchase it again.

Smooth ink, easy starts, easy cleanup. No nib creep. Always performs well, my goto black ink.

My favourite part of this ink is its design. The bottom of the bottle is sloped so not a drop of ink goes to waste as it gathers in a convenient little dip in the centre. Plus, the paper that comes with the bottle makes clean-up a breeze. The ink itself is nice and consistent. As a bonus (it really shouldn't be), it doesn't stain my pen. I found that another black ink stains the white plastic of my LAMY Safari pink. Safe to say I only use LAMY ink now.

This was my starter ink with my first fountain pen - the Pilot Metropolitan. It's a perfect rich black that writes well without bleeding through the paper. As a left handed person, I smudged but this ink still dries relatively quickly so it's not a total mess! I would definitely come back to this ink again after I venture out with some other samples.

Awesome. I have not tried out the ink yet - still have a small box of the one time use ones. Customer service, price and speed and packaging of items was fantastic. Will shop and recommend Goulet Pen.

Frankly, I bought the ink for the bottle. However, after loading it into their Lamy Al Star and tested it for italic writing the difference between this ink and a more 'wet' ink was palpable. . It strikes the perfect balance between over penetrating and too dry to flow through a pen. Even 20 pound typing paper feathers and bleeds through less than most fountain pen inks.. The Al Star is a wet writer and this is the perfect ink for it. I'm starting to use it in other pens that over penetrate journal paper and documents without as much bleeding through as other inks.

Excellent service.

This is an amazing ink. Perhaps not the blackest (sometimes it shades a bit grey) and not very waterproof, but it was the one ink I brought with me when I lived abroad for five months, and I never regretted choosing it above all others. Very well behaved on the majority of paper and in every pen in which I've tried it. I'm actually on my second bottle, as I used up the first entirely!

Bought this ink when I bought my third LAMY from Goulet Pens. Great color and flow onto the paper. Dries quickly so there's no mess. Enjoying the writing experience indeed!

It is nice to find a small business that still puts effort into attracting more customers. Very personalized experience. Thank you.

Lamy does a great job with marking things with great looks and function well. I love the roll of paper that is with it. The ink itself is great flows really nice closer to the grayer side of blacks. The dry time is great being pretty quick. It doesn't bleed a ton which is a plus. Highly recommended for people looking for inks that are more utility and everyday use for a great price.

I like this pen very much! Durable and works well when starting to write. Thank you for your excellent service.

Seems to be high quality ink. It writes very well in all of my pens

Lamy as a whole is very big on simplicity and Lamy black is no different. The bottle is very simple and sleek in appearance and wonderfully practical. The ink itself flows nicely, just a hair on the dry side, but has never even once skipped for me in my Lamy Safari with a fine nib. It dries quickly (at least on the cheap paper I have) and is fairly easy to clean off of external parts after filling. All in all its a great ink functionally, the only gripe I have is the color. It is a lighter black than most and ends up looking faded as it dries. If it weren't for that, this would certainly be a 5 star ink. P.S. it takes to washing pretty nicely if you care about that. I'm no expert but I was able to pull out some nice grey wash while still leaving a the line plenty visible.

The design of the ink bottle is extremely effective.

As the headline says, this is a onderfully behaved ink in all my pens and on virtually all decent papers. It is thick and wet, flows silkily from all kinds of nibs: specially ground italics, Lamy XF, F, B, and 1.1mm italic. Not to mention Pelikan, Parker, Sheaffer and Waterman. Since I don't use MB pens I can't say. As the one really negative review said, it is not the blackest of inks. If that is your main criterion, seek another. If you derive pleasure from the act of writing, Lamy Black will add to it. Also, in the event of a clothing accident, it can usually be washed out.

Lamy ink isn't as dark a black as other inks, like Noodler's Black; but it's still dark enough to look black on the page. It's one of the fastest drying inks I've used, which in my opinion, makes it a good go-to ink for use in the office (works great on cheap copy paper and forms) and also for left handed writers. It flows great. Easy to clean out of a nib and cartridge converter. Finally, the bottle design of Lamy inks is one of my favorites: it's nearly impossible to tip over and the blotting paper is very convenient.

By far the best, most thoughtful, most user-friendly ink bottles on the market. Others could learn a lesson here. The ink is fine, not great but now awful. Is a great mixer to tone down and deepen that goofy Crayola color you get with Lamy Blue. But truthfully... I bought it for the bottle ;)

I can only compare this to generic blacks found in ink cartridges but this is BLACK smooth writing and very nice bottle.

I got this a little less than 2 weeks ago and let me say it's a very nice dark for an extra fine nib, I'm currently using it on the vac 700 and it works really well plus the shape of the bottle allows you to get a good fill on the pen with little ink remaining in the bottle. It also has no odor if you're wondering.