Pelikan’s 4001 range can be considered a bread-and-butter range of saturated inks in classic colours. The turquoise variant is very saturated with slight shading depending on the nib and paper used. In very wet pens and on sheen-prone paper, it can develop a slight violet sheen.
In the x450’s medium nib, 4001 Turquoise feels very wet and juicy, with a drying time to go along with this impression. This pen-and-ink combination is certainly not a prime choice for quick notetaking.
A 30-ml bottle of 4001 Turquoise retails at € 4.70. At 16 cents per millilitre, it’s slightly more expensive than Diamine inks but still cheap compared to higher-end ranges like Pelikan’s own Edelstein (26 cents per millilitre) and Graf von Faber-Castell (39 cents per millilitre).
