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This is the second pen I've used with my Cross purple ink (which is a beautiful shade) where a green shimmer/stain has been left on the feed.

I've asked Cross about it and they never replied.

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This is fairly common with purple inks. The same effect appears when I use Montblanc Lavender Purple.

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There's no evidence of it in what i've written (as per the photos) but I don't have the bottle to hand to do a proper ink drop test.

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This is fairly common with purple inks. The same effect appears when I use Montblanc Lavender Purple.

Ahh okay. I don't get it at all using either of the MB purples I have.

'Someone shoot me please.'


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Ahh okay. I don't get it at all using either of the MB purples I have.

A lot of sheen depends heavily on the paper used and how wet the pen is. Seeing it on the feed is not uncommon though. I have one purple that leaves a gold sheen on the feed despite my having only seen it once on the page.

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A lot of inks I have used do this, but Ive never had an ink that permanently stained the feed. Did you try washing it off? This ink will sheen green on a splash on tomoe river paper, but Ive never gotten it to sheen with regular writing.

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Ahh good to know!

And no I haven't washed it off - I've packaged the pen off to be fixed (skipping issues) but I will have a look at it when I come back.

I couldn't remember which was the other pen (it was my Lamy Safari which I've just dug out and can see the sheen is gone now that I've gone back to using up my cartridges).

When the pen comes back, (if it's fixable), I will get some tomoe river paper and do some splashes!

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Diamine Grape left green sheen on the feed of my Prera. In writing with a fountain pen, I have never seen the sheen, but I do see it when I use a glass pen.

 

I suspect the green will wash easily off your pen.

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I've asked Cross about it and they never replied.

 

 

I'm not sure whether you mean you reported it as a problem (as in, “Do I have a defective, or perhaps just expired or otherwise spoilt, bottle of ink?”), or asked whether it is a feature by the ink's design/formulation, or just complained about it as an undesirable phenomenon regardless and don't care about the cause.

 

When I see stuff on my nibs that I don't like, my first response would probably be true to wipe it off with a damp piece of tissue or paper towel, and if that doesn't work, flush it under the tap, and if that doesn't work either, dump the nib/feed/section into my temperature-controlled ultrasonic cleaner and run that for five minutes.

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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Cross Violet the one, true purple for me. Your photos really show off the beauty of the color.

It's hard work to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.

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I'm not sure whether you mean you reported it as a problem (as in, “Do I have a defective, or perhaps just expired or otherwise spoilt, bottle of ink?”), or asked whether it is a feature by the ink's design/formulation, or just complained about it as an undesirable phenomenon regardless and don't care about the cause.

 

When I see stuff on my nibs that I don't like, my first response would probably be true to wipe it off with a damp piece of tissue or paper towel, and if that doesn't work, flush it under the tap, and if that doesn't work either, dump the nib/feed/section into my temperature-controlled ultrasonic cleaner and run that for five minutes.

I just mean that I emailed and asked if it was normal. I emailed when it first happened to my Safari in May then forgot all about it until I inked up my MB and noticed it again.

It did come off the Lamy (which I looked at after I posted the thread).

 

Cross Violet the one, true purple for me. Your photos really show off the beauty of the color.

Thank you - it's a beautiful purple. It's my favourite, I think out of the 5 I own.

 

Did you manage to remove the green sheen from your nib?

I haven't tried yet as I've just sent the MB off to have the nib adjusted because it skips terribly. I had inked it up to test to see if my flushing had fixed the issue (and the Cross was the only ink to hand) and it did for a while, then came back so I bit the bullet and sent it off.

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Sheen is more likely in wetter pens and on really slick paper (I've even had Noodler's Kung Te Cheng sheen for me on Tomoe River). And the sheen is more noticeable when the paper is looked at from an angle, not straight on. Although Diamine Oxford Blue gave me sheen even on the crappy absorbent Piccadilly sketch pad paper.

But usually, for me, if the ink is purple I get a gold sheen (green is a new one on me). A couple of years ago I tried a bunch of purple and red violet inks in the (vain) hope to find one that shined red, the way a purple gel pen thank you note I was sent did, but the only time I've gotten a red sheen is with blue inks.

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