Montblanc Lavender Purple

[paradigm]

I did not notice that anyone above wrote about the strongest advantages of these inks for ink pens with ink level windows and with a "complex filling system":

1. These inks have excellent lubricity and repulsion from the surfaces (they do not "stick" to the surface, this fluid easily rolls inside the vessels without leaving traces).

Even in such a small window as Lamy 2000 it was perfectly visible the rest of the ink and it was very nice to watch them "roll over" there.

2. these inks are very easily washed out with plain water in just a couple of washes.

The owners of vacuum fillers will appreciate!

[invisuu]

Agreed. Id add the criteria of does it stick to surface as one of the more important properties of an ink for pens with ink windows. Almost all MB are awesome in that regard.

[Jazini]

One of my top favourites. Thanks for the review.

[inkstainedruth]

I have a bottle somewhere, don't know if it's the old or new.

 

""As we all know, our own personal envisioning of definitions of "violet" and "purple" are often quite different.""

Now as a kid, I learned purple tended toward blue and Violet towards red...............then Wiki tells me my crayon box was wrong.

So.... ...

 

Just read in a good thread, all the different definitions of Sepia.

 

And I always thought the opposite (because I think of "blue violet" and "red violet" as being different from "violet" and also different from "purple"). Ain't language a funny thing?

As for the crayon thing, I remember when Crayola got rid of "flesh color"....

Yeah, "sepia" is a whole other issue.... As far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't look like an old photograph -- or the opening segment of the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz -- it's NOT sepia. Which means, IMO, Diamine Sepia was seriously misnamed (I'm guessing this was a case of "marketing").

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 8/25/2012 at 5:04 PM, lapis said:

Tried to cut his comments on purple and violet and couldn't, hadn't realized I'd answered this thread three-four years ago.

It seems to have taken me 4 years to finally try this ink.

 

I went looking for ink for a Waterman late '80's-early 90's 200 18K  F, and Waterman's F was as narrow as I think EF now. I don't know about "modern" Waterman nib with standards.

 

Back before Japanese pens became so popular, Waterman was The Skinny nib (out side of Aurora).

The Waterman F is @ the same width as my Pelikan 200's EF. Both regular flex.

 

Various treads said, MB Lavender-Purple shaded in a F or EF nib; those are some  real sharp eyed folks. I just gave it a try on the new 90g Rhoda. I'll just take the pretty color.

Next time in a wider nib.

The new dark green 4001 didn't shade either.