Midnight Blue - Montblanc

[EBV]

Thanks for the review! This is one of my go-to inks for anything work-related. I like the colour tho I do hope they will consider re-introducing an iron-gall version of the ink.

[doggonecarl]

I love MB Midnight Blue. Performs great is every pen I have but one, my Pilot VP. It is the ink of choice for less than stellar paper. And I like the color.

 

Didn't realize that there was an IG version and a non-IG version. But when I heard it was being discontinued I stocked up and have three bottles in reserve...of the "old" IG Midnight Blue.

[ethernautrix]

Thanks for the information about which MBMB serial numbers indicate iron-gall. Happy to confirm that my bottle is IG. (Sorry for not checking for your name. I'm on the mobile, which makes navigation cumbersome.)

 

I'm currently using this ink in a Pelikan Toledo 710, with satisfaction, even delight.

[wastelanded]

Slips at work that I wrote in this ink two years ago, the writing is completely black now. I'd love to try it in an old safety pen...maybe I should go for that Bayard I've been eyeing after all.

[AmaranthMoor]

I use this ink, and it flows fine, but it's honestly so close to just being black ink that there's almost no difference for me! ;u; I can tell if I stare really, really hard, but otherwise...

[tmenyc]

I use this ink, and it flows fine, but it's honestly so close to just being black ink that there's almost no difference for me! ;u; I can tell if I stare really, really hard, but otherwise...

right...until you write with a good black next to it, then it's clearly not black. At my often poorly lit home desk it's sometimes hard to remember.

 

Tim

[Justcurious]

Is it correct to assume that the first two iterations may cause staining but the latest one will not?

[IndigoBOB]

Does this new non IG version any sufficient water resistance?

 

Is the MB Midnight Blue in this review IG or not? Because it looks like IG by the Gray left over, but if not that's good enough water resistance for me.

Edited January 28, 2018 by IndigoBOB

[NicolausPiscator]

Jup! This one is also nice... interesting to hear that it is a permanent ink. I found that it is somewhat dry. I very much like the elegant shading.

[IndigoBOB]

Thank you.

 

This ink is on the top of my list. I have been looking for a dark saturated ink that was dry.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I was on a newspaper won tour of the Lamy factory, and Lamy makes it's own inks in the factory, in a corner of the huge 225 meter long, 70-80 m wide factory. From where the tour turned at the ink cartridge filling machine, it was some 70 or so yards to the ink corner. There was a huge vat, various width and color plastic pipes leading into and away from the big vat; and huge bags of chemicals leaning up against the stand of the huge vat. Didn't notice an overhead pipe, so could have been an underground pipe to the cartridge maker.

Older Lamy bottles, have one in blue and one in turquoise.

 

MB is making it's inks in Austria.

Edited April 16, 2018 by Bo Bo Olson

[Tom Kellie]

~ Over the past week I've been using Montblanc Midnight Blue in a 1953 Montblanc 3-42 G Bnib.

Writing pages of comments during interviews with over 100 students, the ink was very well behaved.

It had a smooth flow, a pleasing dark tone with frequent shading, and worked well on two grades of paper.

I was inspired to use it by meiers, who often praises it.

Tom K.

[adyf]

 

~ Over the past week I've been using Montblanc Midnight Blue in a 1953 Montblanc 3-42 G Bnib.

Writing pages of comments during interviews with over 100 students, the ink was very well behaved.

It had a smooth flow, a pleasing dark tone with frequent shading, and worked well on two grades of paper.

I was inspired to use it by meiers, who often praises it.

Tom K.

 

 

Are you talking about the latest formulation Tom?

[Tom Kellie]

Are you talking about the latest formulation Tom?

 

~ adyf:

 

Yes.

I double-checked.

It's definitely the most recent formulation.

It performed exceptionally well again two days ago.

Tom K.

[adyf]

 

~ adyf:

 

Yes.

I double-checked.

It's definitely the most recent formulation.

It performed exceptionally well again two days ago.

Tom K.

 

Thanks Tom.

[MarkHanks]

Could someone share how good is this new MB Midnight Blue in waterproof quality?