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Attached below is an image of a writing sample with PR Midnight Blues, and below that, the review proper. Regarding the image, "lorem ipsum" is a nonsense language used by printers to showcase a font/color (ie: it takes focus away from content and puts it on aesthetics). The water test was performed by submerging and agitating a sample swatch of the given ink in reverse osmosis water for thirty seconds, then letting it drip dry.

 

A key has been added, written on Clairefontaine paper, with a number of different inks for reference.

 

Standard Disclaimer: Image provided only to give a general sense of the color. The vibrance and nuance are typically lost when an ink is digitized.

 

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Review

 

When I write a review, I first focus on color, and award an ink 0 to 100 based upon that alone, separate from other considerations. I then deduct points from the color score for defects (ie: lack of flow, creep, etc), to arrive at an overall score.

 

Color

 

PR Midnight Blues is a nice, perhaps prototypical blue-black. In my pen, it comes off as “powdery” and dull, but I imagine a broader gauge would improve things.

 

Color Score = 85

 

Deductions

 

Midnight Blues didn’t perform horribly on the water test, but it left quite a bit to be desired.

-2

 

Overall Score = 83

 

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Nice review! Thanks for including the comparisons with the other inks in the lower left hand corner.

CharlieB

 

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I just received a Pelikan 150 and a sample of this ink from JJ. What a great combination. But what was even better, was that it has really cured the skipping problem I had with a Waterman Harley Davidson FP I have. A writer with a very smooth nib, but fussy. This ink turned it into a superb writer.

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I loaded this ink in my Esterbrook with 9048 nib and I must say that I love the color!!

 

On the downside: this ink really feathers a lot in my moleskine and bleeds immensly through the pages... :(

I don't have any problems with Levenger ink. All my Noodler's ink bleed and feather a lot less then this PR...

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I really like the color of this ink, too. But I must also say that I've had some fairly gnarly experiences with it on a lot of different papers: major feathering; bleed through; smearing. On Moleskine? No way. Made a mess for me (even in my fine point Visconti Viscontina). I hardly use it any more because of all this, despite the fact that it's one of my absolute favorite blues.

 

Bummer.

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I love the MS Wordesque sample of writing! :roflmho:

Looks like a ink might have to pick up. I love blues.

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This ink feathers & bleeds on a lot of different papers. When it doesn't, it's pretty awesome.

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If you want a Private Reserve Black with a little more character, try Black Magic Blue. It's a bit darker and writes very smoothly in all my pens, water test is about the same though . . .

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I found PR MB to be on the drier side compared to Aurora Black which was in a Pel 200 0.7mm IC a la Binder.

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i have this ink and i have flow issues in my lamys. love the color, but works good in specific pens

 

Nice color, however I find it temperamental and only works in wet pens.

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I also experienced flow problems when it was in my TWSBI. I forget which pens it was in before, but this was the first time it (the ink and the pen) was finicky. Now the TWSBI is flowing well with an Omas Blue/PR American Blue mix and the PR Midnight is waiting in the wings.

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