PR Purple Mojo

[girlieg33k]

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[Ghost Plane]

Huh. Looks seriously blue on my monitor.

[Deirdre]

Looks like a purplish blue here as well.

[captnemo]

Blue here too. And I do see a leetle bit of shading. Nothing to write home about though. Haha.

 

Purple is very sensitive to color balance so it's not surprise we get differing results.

 

Nice review.

[eric.zamir]

Being in Europe, I had to wait a while for this ink. I hoped it would be the purple I had been searching for. I was not disappointed. This is a great ink. Indeed - Pelikan/Waterman on steroids.

It's rich, bold, doesn't bleed or feather on my Pigna, Banzato/Hamelin, Clairefontaine, Buffetti or Brunnen notebooks, not to mention Cranes and Conqueror stationery, or my engraved Piccolo Press letterhead.

As with most PR inks, I would not use it in one of my gushers, e.g., Doric OS with flexy B nib - that gets my slowest ink - Sheaffer Bordeaux, or pale stuff like Turquoise.

But it's now part of the Sacred Purple Pantheon - Jansen Augbergine/MB Violet for a really red purple; Pelikan/Jansen Violet for medium, and PR Purple Mojo for a dark, bold purple.

Tanzanite is more of a transition color between purple and blue. It also dries a little paler.

I've got that Purple Mojo working overtime!!!

Edited January 27, 2008 by eric.zamir

[Immoteus]

On my monitor it looks like a dark blue with a hint of purple.

[rkolling]

I've played with Purple Mojo as well. I agree with the comments above that it can be seen as a Tanzanite on steroids more towards the purple end of the scale. In a wet writer it will appear a very dark blue with some hints of purple lurking in the background. But if it is smudged or used in a drier writer, then its true pruple (really more purplish-violet) will jump out at you. To some extent, Noodler's La Coleur Royale (LCR) does this as well, but PR Purple Mojo does it in spades.

 

I agree with Girlie 33K's comments regarding the "electric" aspect of many PR inks, especially in wet writers. Hold your writing up to an incandescent light, especially on notebook paper, and you will notice a red irredescence. Yet on good pads of paper or on very white printer paper, this red irredescence is minimal or non-existent. PR DC Electric Blue (DCEB) is the most obvious example of this phenomenon (taking the effect well beyone what is observed with Tanzanite) I have experienced. It goes on wet looking like a nice blue (between Visconti Blue and PR Black Magic Blue in hue) but then dries a bit darker with the red irredescence. Also, DCEB does not have quite the lubricity or glide that I find in PR Black Magic Blue, Aurora Blue or especially Visconti Blue. Black Magic Blue tends to look a very dark, somewhat dullish looking blue in a wet writer. But it is not as flat as Noodler's Luxury Blue in my wet writers. Both Aurora and Visconti Blues seem to have more "pop" than the Black Magic Blue which is very, very dark and bold but lacks some of the pop or shine of the other two.

 

I've been searching for the "perfect blue" and have tried the blues, purples, and blue-blacks. Aurora Blue and Visconti Blue are my favorites thus far, especially with the wet writers that I have. I thought I had found the answer in Noodler's LCR but the purple (really violet) smudging and shading gives the ink a split personality in my pens. I'll give Diamine WES Imperial Blue a try next.

 

This is one opinion but please remember that nib width, wetness of feed, paper used and writing style can significantly alter your results and impressions.

[katia]

Thank you so much for this red to blue purple scan! I've always had a hard time looking for reddish purples. Now I need to get my hands on some Jansen Augbergine...

[irbyls]

This is my FAVORITE ink that I have tried so far (out of the few I have tried.) Right now it's in my Parker Frontier with medium nib... Works well for underlining!

[Ed Ronax]

Nice review, thanks.