Permanent or Semi Permanent Blue Blacks

[Robert Hughes]

I inked up a Parker Sonnet with Lamy Blue Black yesterday and started writing away. Interestingly, the ink was not as dark as I remembered it (probably running a little dry from the Sonnet's feed). Freshly inked, it was about the same color as EtherX's rinsed out Pelikan B/B with a dash of Noodler's black. But I assume it will get darker in time, and will never wash out.

[ethernautrix]

Another quick-and-dirty photo just now taken to post in Ondina's thread.

 

Same inks, different pens, different results! I did have to adjust the color on the left (cartridge), but the right side is SOOC. These are close enough to represent the inks:

 

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4245226141_9e7dacfabb_o.jpg

[Lloyd]

Another quick-and-dirty photo just now taken to post in Ondina's thread.

 

Same inks, different pens, different results! I did have to adjust the color on the left (cartridge), but the right side is SOOC. These are close enough to represent the inks:

 

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4245226141_9e7dacfabb_o.jpg

 

Since you are re-testing this ink, can you re-post a water test?

[ethernautrix]

Per your request, Lloyd, here is the same ink sample after having been submerged in water for about three-to-four minutes this morning:

 

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2775/4248089225_7cf5c02921_o.jpg

[Lloyd]

Gracias.

[Vincent1278]

FWIW I am doing a ton of writing with Noodler's blue-black recently and I have no complaints.

[lapis]

Okay just a few feelings of my own:

 

1. I don't like Parker's or Waterman's BB because they are both too green. (Possibly one and the same ink.)

2. I don't like Pelikans BB because it's too grey and also too dry.

3. Skrip's BB is also to greyish.

4. Hernin's Bleu Nuit is nice but more of a very light BB and perhaps a touch of purple.

5. De Atramentis' Indigo Blau is slimilar but better because darker, and no purple, but still too light.

6. Noodler's Midnight blue is a tough one because I do like it but it is perhaps more of a very dark blue than a BB.

7. I don't like Noodler's Legal Lapis or their BB because both are almost the same and both have too much green in them.

8. What I do like is MB's and Lamy's BB out of the bottle. But whichever one is in fact darkest depends mostly on your pens, papers, lighting etc. Maybe even on the charge.

 

Sarge