[OldGriz]

Here are the color swatches for Colfer's Imperial Ink that Sean sent to me.
I photographed the pages and tweaked the individual colors in Photoshop until they matched the colors on the paper in my monitor.
The are written on White 100% cotton bond paper. I see no signs of feathering or bleed through on any of the samples. There are some very slight differences between the image posted here and the actual color samples, but it is virtually impossible to get a pure match.
I will mention the biggest differences:
Black Dahlia ... not as black as the image.. but a good solid black close to Pelikan in density...
Sovereign Blue and Diplomat Blue are both a bit duskier in color than the image... both are very appealing conservative colors for those who need a good business blue.
Antilles Blue... the actual color sample is an even nicer richer color than in the image with just a note of a green background... almost unnoticeable.
Fields of Green .. picture fresh spring grass, the color in the image is a more blue.. this ink is definately a green... a beautiful light spring grass green
Signal Red ... is definately more red than the image... it shows no orange highlights.. it is a red... that might tone out to a hot magenta in a dry writing pen.

I would say that all the other colors are pretty true to the original samples... at least as they show on my monitor.
My personal opinions based on just the color samples is WOW... there are some sweet colors here. Some of which I don't think we have ever seen before and all of them beautiful. I can't wait to try the Antilles blue and New York Central Jade. I am sure that the African Violet and Hawaiian Sunset are going to be big hits for anyone who likes that tonality. The Blue Spruce would be a great business color for anyone who wants to run a little outside the pack... not really blue, not really green, but definately a good conservative color. Oscuro Tinta Verde... I honestly don't know what I think about this color.. in some ways it reminds me of PR Avacado, but not the same... then again I hated PR Avacado when I first got it and now love it.

[Oxonian]

Thanks Griz,

If the colours that I see are a good match then there are some good fresh colours there, I might even get adventurous and step outside my normal browns and greys for writing.

Once again thanks for doing the work for us all and I, for sure, am looking forward to your further comments and assesments.

Cheers, John

[Phthalo]

I've been following this with interest... I'm glad to see some very nice colours here!

New York Central Jade and African Violet looks lovely.

[Titivillus]

I thought Black Dahlia was already trademarked?????

[OldGriz]

Tytyvyllus, on Sep 26 2006, 06:52 PM, said:

I thought Black Dahlia was already trademarked?????

As a movie title, but I doubt as an ink

[Lloyd]

Thanks for the detailed image. Do any of these inks provide any water-resistance?

[Dr.Grace]

I think these inks "deserve to live"!

[saintsimon]

Nice colours, definitely. My fave is Côtes de Nuit

[kissing]

I had faith in these inks

Tom, how is the flow in these pens? Smooth and a pleasure to write with? Dry? Wet?

[Titivillus]

OldGriz, on Sep 26 2006, 04:54 PM, said:

Tytyvyllus, on Sep 26 2006, 06:52 PM, said:

I thought Black Dahlia was already trademarked?????

As a movie title, but I doubt as an ink

my error I guess I was just curious about all the little trademark symbols when a US patent & trademark search shows none of them.

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This post has been edited by Tytyvyllus: 27 September 2006 - 12:49 AM

[sonia_simone]

I believe you have to use the TM mark, demonstrate you are using it in your application, and then after a rather long process your trademark is registered and you get to use the cute little R. That's the process we've been undergoing at work, although we use a service mark rather than a trademark, but I think the process is essentially the same.

Movie and book titles aren't trademarked, and even if they were, the name "Black Dahlia" was applied to the unfortunate young real-life person before there were any books or movies about her.

Griz, thanks for this! Looking forward to hearing more about how they write. The colors are nice!

[rosey]

Is this premixed ink or is this the ink that you add water to?

[kissing]

rosey, on Sep 27 2006, 03:13 AM, said:

Is this premixed ink or is this the ink that you add water to?

You add water to it

They're ink concentrates

[corniche]

sonia_simone, on Sep 26 2006, 09:47 PM, said:

I believe you have to use the TM mark, demonstrate you are using it in your application, and then after a rather long process your trademark is registered and you get to use the cute little R.  That's the process we've been undergoing at work, although we use a service mark rather than a trademark, but I think the process is essentially the same.

Movie and book titles aren't trademarked, and even if they were, the name "Black Dahlia" was applied to the unfortunate young real-life person before there were any books or movies about her. 

Griz, thanks for this!  Looking forward to hearing more about how they write.  The colors are nice!

Greetings all,

I believe it is best if I abstain from posting in this thread and I am only making this one concession to clear up the trademark issue. Therefore, this will be my first and last post here.

Sonia is exactly right. Ironically, a trademark has to be used before it can be registered- that is an integral part of the registration process.

Furthermore, manufactured products get trademarks ™; services, (and service oriented companies), use service marks, (sm); and movies, (like the infamous "Black Dahlia"), books, etc., are copyrighted.

OK- that's all from me folks.

Good night, good luck and God bless,

Sean


* Edited for grammatical error.

This post has been edited by corniche: 27 September 2006 - 06:34 AM

[Maja]

Those inks look nice....
Thanks OldGriz for tweaking the colours in Photoshop so that they look as close to "real life" as possible.
That Blue Spruce™ looks wonderful; it didn't catch my eye the first time I saw a sample, but I can see myself buying some as it doesn't look like any other ink I have
Oh, and glad to hear the Signal Red™ isn't really "orangey"; I love red inks

This post has been edited by Maja: 27 September 2006 - 06:35 AM