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Color is pretty much right on with my monitor.

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Thanks for the review, punch. This is one of my favourites Diamine blues. On my monitor, the scan looks purple. (I thought it was Noodler's Iraqi Indigo/Violet Vote at first.) This does indeed have a purple tinge, but after a few days, whatever purple tinge it has seems to go away. There is one other Diamine blue that's a wee bit darker than this one, and that is, Diamine WES Imperial Blue (now being sold as Imperial Blue, I believe). This one is close in saturation with Imperial Blue, but it's a brighter. Thanks again! :)

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A generous eBay seller sent me a bottle of this ink for free, with a pen I won. It's become one of my favorite blue inks.

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The scan looks a bit purple on my monitor, and I admit I secretly wish Sapphire Blue would retain just a bit more of that purple tinge, without actually being purple.

 

I love Diamine Sapphire. As you observed, Punch, I agree it has similarities to other royal blue inks, yet somehow is more vivid, bright, and beautiful. Very nice review.

 

I recently tried getting a slightly more purple Sapphire by making a one-to-one mix with Violette Pensee, but it didn't work. It just made it look like a deeper Sapphire.

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Another ink I like quite a lot, also like Imperial Blue (as girlieq33k says a bit darker).

 

I think Diamine make great inks, I use them a lot, favourite is probably Indigo.

 

Thanks for the review.

 

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Nice ink, I like it a lot.

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This ink should come with a warning though.

Crystal clear ink sacs are stained severely by a single fill of this ink. I have a P17 with an almost totally black sac from two months of filling of this ink. It's impossible to see the ink level in the sac any more, even when held up against a brilliant light.

 

I say this only to warn someone with a valuable, pristine pen. I love the colour, and love the ink and can heartily recommend it.

 

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Richard.

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I'm reviving this thread to ask a question - has anyone had a problem with this ink feathering?

 

I only ask as I just got a bottle of this ink, and I love the colour and the consistant line of ink my pen puts down but I noticed a bit of feathering with the ink. Now admittedly this particular pen (an IPG) and paper aren't the best but I've used Waterman inks in this pen before on this same paper with minimal to no feathering. So, pen and paper issues aside, has anyone else had feathering issues with this particular ink?

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Waterman inks are the best behaved ones, so it may be a comparison effect. Diamine Sapphire is a great blue and also well behaved IMHO. It may not get along as well as Waterman's with that specific paper, but my impression is that it will perform very nicely on most paper surfaces. (Is an amazingly beautiful color, isn't it?)

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(Is an amazingly beautiful color, isn't it?)

 

 

Fantastic colour. I have Skrip ink in blue, Watermans FB and Visconti Blue, and this ink fills a void in between those fantastic inks.

 

FYI, since my last post in this thread tried the ink on different paper and the feathering issue was mostly cured, so I blame the paper.......for now.

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That is the colour I am getting from most of my pens with this ink.

 

Wasn't counting on it being purple based on the sapphire of other brands.

 

edit: 24 hours later it now looks somewhere between this and the other review pics.

 

(Still not "sapphire" though...)

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Lovely shade - thanks for a concise and useful review!

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I like this a lot, but, as others have said, it looks a lot less purple, to me, on paper, than on my monitor.

I find it well-behaved on just about every paper I use.

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This looks purple on my monitor too, nothing like my experience of this ink! This is with wet writers, though. The colour I see is definitely blue, no purple in it.

 

Graham

 

edited because I added a link to a pic that was broken!

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