Diamine Inks

[npcole]

I've always tried to avoid highly-saturated inks. They seem to be more of a pest to clean out of my piston-fillers, I worry about long-term problems, and I tend to prefer more muted, traditional colours anyway.

Diamine used to sell its inks in two ranges, a traditional and a modern range, and the latter tended to be the more saturated inks. Now that they have merged them into a single range, is there any way to tell which inks are less saturated and which are more?

[Unky]

You could try some ink samples. Goulet Pen Company sells them for $1.25 and they come in handy vials.

[Runnin_Ute]

Classic Red is just that - Classic.

[PowerWriter]

I recently purchased a 30ml bottle of Diamine Jet Black, but I think I got the new, saturated version. It is much blacker than the reviews on FPN. I quite like it, but my Parker IM Premium nib dried up chronically, This pen rarely dries. The subsequent Perle Noir is working very well. Every time I tried to use it, I had to rinse the nib. It was disconcertingly troublesome. Diamine's Imperial Blue and Emerald , also new, are behaving wonderfully.

Edited January 1, 2014 by PowerWriter

[lapis]

A. They are all the same with by no means any high saturation but a medium saturation (even if some are more saturated than others e.g. Sargasso Sea).

B. Again, there is no difference in saturatuion between the "Old English" (gold box), "New Century" (silver box) and the newest design (black box with lighter margins).

[npcole]

So was there never any difference between the ranges? I remember the black that was in the New Century range as being much, much "blacker" than the Old English Black, and much harder to flush out of pens. Maybe that was where I got the impression that the ranges differed.

[Abner C. Kemp]

So was there never any difference between the ranges? I remember the black that was in the New Century range as being much, much "blacker" than the Old English Black, and much harder to flush out of pens. Maybe that was where I got the impression that the ranges differed.

 

From what I've heard the Old English range is supposed to recreate colors that were used "back in the day". The New Century inks are more modern interpretations.

[amberleadavis]

Cybaea has done a comparison of every Diamine ink.