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The 'official' Unofficial Annoucement Of Platinum Mix-Free Inks


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We live in an online world today, that's for sure! I was chatting it up on Twitter the other day and I was asked about Platinum Mix-Free inks, and shown a link to fellow FPN member (iosepus) Bruno Taut's blog Crónicas Estilográficas. I had never heard anything about them! I immediately inquired about what they were with the Platinum importer (Luxury Brands) here in the US. So here's what I know right now:

 

* Platinum Mix-Free inks are (apparently) a new line of waterproof inks that are mixable with each other.

* There are 9 different inks that you can mix together to create a whole palette of colors. There will be Smoke Black, Aqua Blue, Aurora Blue, Silky Purple, Cyclamen Pink, Flame Red, Earth Brown, Sunny Yellow, and Leaf Green.

* They're 60ml bottles (same as the current Platinum Carbon and Pigmented inks) and are supposedly going to sell in Japan for around 1200 JPY. No official word yet what the sale price will be in the US.

* No official date for when they'll be available in the US, probably late-March/early-April but don't hold me to that!

 

This is really about all we know for now. We're caught a little off-guard by this 'announcement' because there wasn't supposed to be any official word on them yet. What happened was that Platinum held a demonstration of the inks in the Itoya store in Ginza (Tokyo). Bruno was at this store when they happened to be displaying the Mix-Free inks in what appears to be some kind of test-market setup. Apparently, even Platinum retailers in the same city knew nothing about these inks. Bruno's blog seems to be the introduction of Mix-Free to the world!

 

Moral of the story? It's hard to keep something secret if you're going to display it in a public place. With today's cell-phone cameras and blogs, it doesn't take long for word to get around! Now we're all going to be waiting eagerly for these inks to arrive in the US. Platinum is probably surprised by the fact that people already know about this ink. But there are still logistics to put into place before this ink will be ready for worldwide distribution. We'll all have to be patient...

 

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:headsmack: Just when I was getting that ink acquisition thing under control . . .

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Not looking, not looking, not looking... :mad:

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Ink? What ink?

 

 

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Before anyone else says it (and you know it will be said...)

resistance is futile... :embarrassed_smile:

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Aurora Blue? I smell a lawsuit on the horizon...

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LOL! Damn it! Don't all these people know that nobody uses fountain pens anymore, and to therefore stop coming out with all these new inks?

 

The only question is where/when to get them. I like the chart setup too.

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Greetings all,

 

Look on the bright side folks- you only have to buy 9 bottles to get the complete palette- how can you beat that?! :cloud9:

 

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but the bad side is, if one doesnt work, you lose 7+ colors.

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i think the camera or moniter color might be a little off. Flame red looks orange. but the others look fine, so maybe it's just the ink itself?

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i think the camera or moniter color might be a little off. Flame red looks orange. but the others look fine, so maybe it's just the ink itself?

 

The flame red in the upper picture doesn't look anything like the flame red in the lower picture.

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Huh, cool. Don't see too many companies that encourage you to mix inks. I'll keep an eye out for these.

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Huh, cool. Don't see too many companies that encourage you to mix inks. I'll keep an eye out for these.

 

Not only does Private Reserve, they (used to?) sell a mixing kit.

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i think the camera or moniter color might be a little off. Flame red looks orange. but the others look fine, so maybe it's just the ink itself?

 

The flame red in the upper picture doesn't look anything like the flame red in the lower picture.

 

Yeah, I wouldn't trust the color accuracy of the pictures. They were not taken professionally, but by a blogger who happened to be going by the store that day.

 

Huh, cool. Don't see too many companies that encourage you to mix inks. I'll keep an eye out for these.

 

Not only does Private Reserve, they (used to?) sell a mixing kit.

 

PR does have a mixing kit....it's basically empty bottles and a syringe, with some suggested mixtures of PR inks.

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Not only does Private Reserve, they (used to?) sell a mixing kit.

 

Right, I forgot about that.

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Uh, wait a second:

(apparently) a new line of waterproof inks

 

Waterproof inks? In a FOUNTAIN pen? As the Yiddish-speaking Sioux Chief from Blazing Saddles would say, "zayn nisht meshugga"

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:bawl: :crybaby: :puddle: :headsmack:

 

More inks I need, well want...

 

I love the display and this only seems to show the colors achieved my mixing two inks 1+1 :bonk:

 

Just imagine mixing in different ratios or more than two inks!

 

I knew there was a reason I never started mixing inks :gaah:

 

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