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Even though I have done my personal best to keep my local Paradise Pen in business, they will close the doors by June 1. Since all Private Reserve Ink was 50% off, I went and acquired a few bottles for my friend who can only use blue or black at work. Since purples will often sneak past as blue, I acquired a few purples. When we tested the inks to see what she could take to work, I ended up with a few more bottles of ink.

 

For your viewing pleasure - doodles.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/2013-05-17-PR-Inks-600.jpg

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Lake Placid

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/Lake_Placid.png

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Plum

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/Plum.png

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Purple Mojo

(which is similar to plum, but seems bluer and was closer to passing for blue).

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/Purple_Mojo.png

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Sonic blue ... which she kept but I considered to be boring.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/Sonic_Blue.png

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And my favorite --- yes, I bought two bottles.

 

Tanzanite

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/Tanzanite.png

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Wonderful doodles!

The Good Captain

"Meddler's 'Salamander' - almost as good as the real thing!"

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Even better when you realize that we didn't spill the iced tea or drop the nachos. :)

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

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Even better when you realize that we didn't spill the iced tea or drop the nachos. :)

But did you see the 'Twisted Spire' of your dreams?

The Good Captain

"Meddler's 'Salamander' - almost as good as the real thing!"

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I have gone through over a dozen bottles of Tanzanite and each one was a deeper purple than the plum scans you are displaying.

 

It is always been unmistakably purple, not even remotely close to a blue.

 

Are there two versions, one that is purple and one that is blue?

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Great comparisons! My Tanzanite is as dark as yours but still much darker. In any case bluer than any of the others up there. I guess it's just the pens. Or the weather...

Life is too short to drink bad wine (Goethe)

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My tanzanite in the bottle and on paper is very close to the bottom left hand corner of this purple thingy.

 

http://vibrofrequencytherapy.webs.com/purple2.png

 

and it can't be scanning because the plum is a purple for this thread.

 

this review is what Tanzanite is to me...

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/225869-private-reserve-tanzanite/

 

one side of us is really missing out here...

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I remember it being much purpler, but I bought two bottles that day. All alone it looks purple. Next to the plum and purple, it looks blue.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Maybe in Canada they sell it as purple and the rest of the world gets blue.

 

Had 2 bottles of it at the office and asked people what colour they thought Tanzanite was, and everyone looked at me like it was a trap before saying it was a very very deep purple.

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Hmm.... Could be. I looked at my old samples, the ink is a really blue purple. If this sample makes it look like a true blue, I think it's because of the comparison to the much redder shades of plum and purple mojo.

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Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Here are scans from a Goulet's sample.

 

http://sheismylawyer.com/INK/attachments/2012_03_17_07.jpg

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My tanzanite in the bottle and on paper is very close to the bottom left hand corner of this purple thingy.

 

http://vibrofrequencytherapy.webs.com/purple2.png

 

and it can't be scanning because the plum is a purple for this thread.

 

this review is what Tanzanite is to me...

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/225869-private-reserve-tanzanite/

 

one side of us is really missing out here...

 

Looking at the scan from MHPhoto - check out Bay State Blue which in that scan looks purple and I can tell you with absolute certainty that BSB is as blue an ink as you will ever find.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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You're all using correctly calibrated monitors and scanners, right? :lticaptd:

 

Even if you were, they're simply not physically capable of accurately reproducing colours containing spectral violet.

 

Here are three samples of the same ink (not PR Tanzanite), clipped from the manufacturer's web site and two well known and respected retailers:

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Just wondering, I only buy Tanzanite, and use it regularly because it is very very purple, I wouldn't touch it if it were even remotely blue.

 

I have a dozen shades of blue in the rotation that are awesome and far less of a hassle than Tanzanite (that's another story.)

 

It's not a scanning issue, the purples are purple.

 

Mystery of mysteries...

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So that's where those other bottles of Private Reserve spirited off to... glad they found a good home.

Just for the record, if it weren't for this closing I never would have discovered how phenomenal PR's Velvet Black is.

If you say GULLIBLE real slowly,

it sounds like ORANGES.

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