The 'official' Unofficial Annoucement Of Platinum Mix-Free Inks

[Raiden]

Hope they are available soon!

[Ernst Bitterman]

This is excellent news! Henceforth, one needs only space for nine bottles in the ink storage facility. Just think of all the room in our various houses that will open up for things like family and food!

[whichwatch]

The return of Chemistry 101! How very cool!

 

1200 Yen is about USD $15. 9 bottles..... let's see...... times 9, carry the 3, divided by the square root of 6, times the speed of light....

 

well, I wasn't so good at math. But whatever it turns out to cost, it seems reasonable for an entire specturm of colors. And think of the mess I can make of my wife's sink and kitchen counters!

 

Sign me up for a set!

[SamCapote]

I'll need two of each.

[ethernautrix]

Not looking, not looking, not looking... :mad:

 

 

I'M NOT LOOKING EITHER!

 

(Yes, I was shouting. Sorry.)

 

(Still *looking away*)

[Deirdre]

::backs carefully out of the thread::

[stevlight]

Only 9 bottles and all those colors--I knew there was a reason for me to just have Platinum Carbon Black up till now--now I can get these and IF I want a color--Viola!--I have it!!

[CatBookMom]

You really enjoy being an uber-enabler, don't you? :clap1:

Edited February 25, 2011 by CatBookMom

[PenTieRun]

Seriously now, I only have half a shelf left in the old secretary desk that I use for the ink library. Why'd these Platinum people have to go and reserve most of the remaining space? And just when the ink acquisition was getting under control... :bonk:

[Erasmus]

More than enough stock inks out there, and I currently have, um, two. So I'm good.

[Surnia]

wait, so are the mix free inks also a type of nano pigment? Interesting... too bad these came out AFTER i acquired my... 19 bottles of ink.

[Aimsport]

Why two dimensional thinking? Row/column harumph. Think three or more colors combined.

[Aimsport]

for those who can't wait:

http://www.shopwritersbloc.com/noodler39s-ink-starter-k39.html

 

One can see the CMYK in the Platinum Mix-Free diagonal.

[saskia_madding]

Okay, I'm starting to get antsy for these. Any word?

[SamCapote]

Why two dimensional thinking? Row/column harumph. Think three or more colors combined.

 

Yeah, we need an X, Y, & Z axis holographic mixing guide with variation in each ink quantity used. LOL!

 

I wonder if Platinum realizes they are creating

or worse, perhaps legions of

!

[TMA]

From another thread by AltecGreen --

 

http://www.platinum-pen.co.jp/mixfree/mixfree03.jpg

[saskia_madding]

Gah, but still no news on release dates? I love the idea of mixing inks that are waterproof. Although I am a klutz, so this could end VERY badly ...

[Essensia]

Gah, but still no news on release dates? I love the idea of mixing inks that are waterproof. Although I am a klutz, so this could end VERY badly ...

 

This came up during Tuesday's Write Time @9. It's around 19:45 in the video on the Ink Nouveau blog. Summary: The kit (all nine 60 mL bottles, chart, mixing supplies) is coming first, shipping in late May to be received sometime in June by the Goulets. MSRP is around $196, but the Goulets don't yet know the price they'll be able to set. No word yet on availability of individual bottles. Shooting for under $20 per bottle when available.

 

They also discussed the possibility of putting together an affordable sample kit containing a vial of each color plus mixing supplies.

[tonybelding]

As I understood things, from the Write Time video, these are not waterproof.

 

Apparently there was some kind of mix-up in translation. Maybe somebody translated "water-based" as "waterproof". However it happened, they are conventional inks.

[tonybelding]

Another thing I think is funny about this. . . .

 

According to traditional ink-mixing theory, you can mix any color from four base inks: CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK). So if you just bought Mix-Free QB, CP, SY and SB, you'd be ready to mix any color from them.

 

Writer's Bloc already sells a similar CMYK "starter" kit with small eyedropper bottles, based on Noodler's inks: Navajo Turquoise (cyan), Shah's Rose (magenta), Noodler's Yellow, and Noodler's Black.