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Visconti blue looks wonderful, and the bottles are damn fine too, however their black is a little washed out, I used to like it, then I tried Aurora black, now it collects dust...

Lamy 2000-Lamy Vista-Visconti Van Gogh Maxi Tortoise Demonstrator-Pilot Vanishing Point Black Carbonesque-1947 Parker 51 Vacumatic Cedar Blue Double Jewel-Aurora Optima Black Chrome Cursive Italic-Waterman Hemisphere Metallic Blue-Sheaffer Targa-Conway Stewart CS475

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Visconti Blue is one of the two blues I use on a regular basis! It is a very vibrant blue and is bluer and brighter than this scan. Thanks for the review! :cloud9:

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Cheech Near Mint

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Visconti makes a Blue Black ink?

 

Yes, see my review of my OMAS Bologna using Visconti blue black ink

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...mp;#entry468028

 

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Where did you find it? I don't see a Visconti blue-black anywhere, but it sure looks nice in your review!

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Visconti makes a Blue Black ink?

 

If Visconti makes blue black ink, they sure don't sell it in the United States. I just checked all the usual suppliers of Visconti ink on the web, and none of them have a blue black ink. Where did you get this Visconti Blue Black ink?

 

I am definitely a fan of Visconti Blue ink. The color reminds me of Sheaffer Skrip Blue (the new Slovenian variety) and Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue.

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I've used Visconti Blue cartridges in two pens and it looked pale and watery in both :crybaby:

Has anyone used both the carts and the bottled version? Do they have different formulas (e.g. like Lamy's BB, allegedly)?

 

I really want to like this ink, the bottle is so beautiful... :unsure:

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Thanks for the review. I just received a bottle of this from a friend on Pentrace, whom I have known since the days of iKonpen, before Pentrace was created. As I noted in my message over there, I currently have eight pens filled with different blue inks. Visconti Blue may be the best one of them all: excellent flow, nice saturation, and a very attractive color on the page.

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I was given a bottle of Visconti Blue the other day -- and it is a gorgeous, rich, deep blue. Exceedingly pleasing to the eye.

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As I just mentioned in another thread..... I love this blue also, it has mostly really great properties - but I do find that it lays down a thicker line for any given nib than most of my other inks. Has anyone else found this to be true?

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Ovidius NOS (New Old Stock)

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A very nice blue ink, although it has zero tolerance to water. I just did a quick test with a sample in a bottle of water, and I could see the ink leaving the paper the second that it was submersed. But that is not a real flaw, 80% of the other inks that I have tried, especially blues, suffer from the same problem. A great ink for anything but addressing envelopes.

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I was given a bottle of Visconti Blue the other day -- and it is a gorgeous, rich, deep blue. Exceedingly pleasing to the eye.

 

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Excellent shade of blue! I love it! :D

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