This ink is very smooth to write with. It is not as dark as I thought it would be, but it is a good color.

I bought this ink as a sample for my pilot metropolitan and loved it so much, I just bought the cartridge set. This ink is so black and dries up so quick. You won't be disappointed with it.

It bleeds just a touch through inexpensive work paper.

This is an okay ink. It feathers quite a lot, but is reasonably smooth. Almost more of a grey after it dries.

This is a smooth-writing ink that dries quick enough for this lefty. It's not deeply saturated and so shows some color shading. Feathering isn't a problem.

I love my Namiki Falcon and Traveler's Notebook. Initially the only bottled ink I had when I got a Falcon was Noodler's. I tried X-Feather, Sailor Nano and Monteverde black. All three of the above inks I like to write with on Rhodia paper, but on my Midori papers there were differences. Perhaps it is the combination of paper, pen and ink, but for writing and drawing in my Midori Traveler's Notebook or my Moleskine sketch book I really like this ink. It does not take long to dry, so if I close the book it does not print to the opposite page, which was happening with X-Feather. Sometimes there is not a lot of time to allow for drying and at the time I did not have blotter paper. To each his or her own, but I find this ink pleasing to use and the smell does not bother me. Many inks and pens have strong smells. For the Midori Traveler's Notebook and my specific Moleskine notebook it works well.

What can I say, some of my favourite ink, I love the texture and the flow. Fantastic colour I couldn't ask for a darker black. I'm a big fan of Namiki/Pilot inks

It's just arrived here, and I made the first tests - perfect. I used a QuoVadis bought here in GouletPen too. No bleed through, no slow dry, no feather. Just perfect. I use this on a Namiki Falcon SF flex nib that is also available here. And I must say that this specific set of pen/ink/paper (in this case, any fountain pen friendly paper) will be used for like 99% of my inking arts. When I am in some situation that requires water resistance, I will go to some Noodler's Black and Platinum Carbon Black. Namiki Black doesn't act good with washes. But I recommend totally for general dry use.

this is a nice black ink--not the blackest but very nice. I use this ink in my Moleskine sketchbooks which have a very strange almost waxy coating that makes other inks like Aurora black bead up on it. Namiki black does not do that. It also has a smell i really like but no one else does. people are really disturbed when I tell them to smell my pen!

Decent flow, not very dark. Smells terrible. This is an ink which will rot on my shelf because it is just so eclipsed by carbon black, nano black, eel black, polar black, x-feather!