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I found this ink at a Rotring distributor, on the clearance shelf, for about 1 EUR / 30 ml bottle. They still had some NOS bottles, but AFAIK Rotring is not producing these anymore. For this price, it was impossible for me not to buy one. I would describe the color a really nice dark blue, it reminds me to the dark blue sky, with grey storm clouds, that bring the smell of rain, and the thunders. As someone who is used to lighter blue inks (maybe because of the old writings on letters and postcards, that are faded), I find the color very exciting, and since using it, it has become my favourite blue ink. It is a nicely behaving ink, with beautiful, elegant shading, fast drying, and no smudging. No problems with leaving uncapped. Seems to be quite wet writing, and this does produce some bleedthrough at the end of strokes, and a bit of feathering, when used on cheap paper. I think Rotring still produces blue cartridges for the ArtPen, however there may be a different ink inside. As always, any comments are welcome! You can view the full size review here.

Hi fellow pen appreciators, I met the Rotring Brillant Unltramarine not long ago in a friendly shop and since the price was good I decided to try it. I wasn't disappointed. Surpised for sure, but not unpleasantly. I couldn't find any other review or even samples so I decided I should make one myself Enjoy The colour was not what it showed on the box, that is the reason for the surprise, it is not really ultramarine in real life. Instead it is a beautiful, dark elegant violet. The colour is not loud, it's reserved. Subtle unobtrusive but proudly violet. I would compare it to the darker colours of the amethyst. If you shine very bright white light on it it shows it's bluer side (as in the scan, where it's considerably bluer than IRL), but under pleasant daylight in a room it is definitely on the violet-lilac side. For the double colour-play I found it hard to really categorise the ink, but I definitely like it. I like it very much indeed. It writes without any issues, I found the ink to be pleasant to use. Dries quickly has no smear. Showthrough and bleed-through is present but not a problem even on the cheap copy paper I use. (I know there are better papers, but this is the kind of paper I use most of the times, so it only made sense to test on this paper). A pleasant feature is that it's waterproof even for longer periods. Saturation, Flow and Shading are all very subjective for the inexperienced like myself, I tried my best to convey my feeling but be warned, individual experiences may slightly vary. Lubrication and spread are left open, because those are definitions I don't really understand with inks so I didn't want to confuse anyone due to a misunderstood notion. This is probably not an ink you could use in any official letters, but for other than that it is a very nice ink indeed. I have bought other Rotring inks as well, I will upload the tests soon This is my first ever review so any advice, complaint and suggestion would be most welcome But let the ink speak for itself: Thanks to SProctor for the nice ink review form!