The "blue" Lamy Ink

[Glenn-SC]

Yours does look purple. I'll have to dig out a Lamy cart and give it another try to see how it looks.

 

+1

 

I have never used the used any of the Lamy cartridges so I can't testify based upon my use.

[Nerdyhistorian]

For a comparison....

Edited January 29, 2019 by InkedSophie

[Enkida]

it's the most boring blue fountain pen ink I've ever seen in my life, but it's blue!

 

Now purple, that's more like the Pelikan 4001 royal blue that can open up to debate, especially vintage bottles of it. Fades horribly over time, though, in my experience, so you eventually end up with periwinkle anyhow.

[Tadeo]

Not long time ago, one of my pens sitted with Lamy Vibrant pink for around a month. This thing got pretty deep into the feed collar and started crusting at the nib slit. I rinsed the pen thoroughly many times, and still some colored water was going out of the feed, left overnight and ink still tinting the water!! So I rinsed an rinsed again until I got satisfied with the result. Left the pen dry out and rest for a few days until decided to put a blue cartridge in it, and it started blue, and capped it and came back the next day and... wait, what? Purple? Well so the damn feed was not clean yet and the blue ink came out purple for a couple lines, then let the pen rest for a while and purple again.

 

So I guess demonstrator pens have real advantages when you want to be completely sure of your ink hygiene.

 

And back to the original topic ¿Did the purple lamy blue came out of a completely clean pen?

[jthole]

It looks different than the what ya get in the bottle...

I think it is. IIRC Pentrace had a long thread on that many years ago. Or the ink in the cartridges evaporates at such a rate that the colour becomes more purplish.

 

The blue/black is also different between the bottle and the cartridges. Not sure about any other colours.

Edited February 6, 2019 by jthole

[Hemiplex]

Same thing happened to me! I have actually been wanting a bottle of this color but it seems like it was a mistake in production. I’ll attach a picture of the color from my Lamy blue cartridge.

[Mercian]

1 hour ago, Hemiplex said:

Same thing happened to me!

 

 

I have had four cartridges of Lamy Blue - in every one it has been a 'washable blue' ink whose appearance is (unsurprisingly) very similar to that of Pelikan 4001 Königsblau.

Given how 'saturated' your ink looks, and how it appears to have a golden 'sheen' on the patches in which the most ink has been laid down, here's my total guess at what has happened:
I suspect that what has happened is that the cartridge that you are using has been sitting unused (e.g. in a warehouse or shop) for Some Time, and that quite a bit of the water in the ink has evaporated though the cartridge's plastic walls.
i.e. the dyestuffs that have remained behind in the now-lower volume of ink within the cartridge have become more-concentrated as the water has evaporated, and so the remaining ink has effectively become more-concentrated (or more-'saturated') over time.

If I'm right, it's still the same dyestuff that you are seeing, but because there is far more of it per ml of remaining ink, that ink looks far more like a purple/'blurple' than it does a 'normal' washed-out 'washable blue'.

 

EDIT TO ADD:
As I have only just seen () jthole posted the exact same possible explanation on 06 February 2019.

Edited November 26, 2021 by Mercian

[Bo Bo Olson]

Don't say anything in I've not used either ink, but here are two old W.Germany bottles of Lamy Blue & Turquoise.

I still haven't used up all of my Lamy Turquoise I bought some 13 years ago as my third ink.

And I like the ink. .....................is what happens when one discovers 'ink'.

Can't open the old turquoise bottle before finishing the classic 'new' bottle. A bottle worth saving for other inks.

[Astronymus]

On 2/6/2019 at 9:32 PM, Tadeo said:

Not long time ago, one of my pens sitted with Lamy Vibrant pink for around a month. This thing got pretty deep into the feed collar and started crusting at the nib slit. I rinsed the pen thoroughly many times, and still some colored water was going out of the feed, left overnight and ink still tinting the water!! So I rinsed an rinsed again until I got satisfied with the result. Left the pen dry out and rest for a few days until decided to put a blue cartridge in it, and it started blue, and capped it and came back the next day and... wait, what? Purple? Well so the damn feed was not clean yet and the blue ink came out purple for a couple lines, then let the pen rest for a while and purple again.

 

So I guess demonstrator pens have real advantages when you want to be completely sure of your ink hygiene.

 

And back to the original topic ¿Did the purple lamy blue came out of a completely clean pen?

Same here. The struggle is real.

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 11/26/2021 at 1:10 AM, Mercian said:

and that quite a bit of the water in the ink has evaporated though the cartridge's plastic walls.
i.e. the dyestuffs that have remained behind in the now-lower volume of ink within the cartridge have become more-concentrated as the water has evaporated,

That happens quite often with old cartridges; the older the cartridge the more ink has evaporated.

When one is new one don't know what one is seeing....and don't notice there is less ink in the cartridge than it will hold.

 

Take a needle syringe and fill it to a hair under full, shake and use.

 

I do that with all my old cartridges and some treasured few are W.Germany Pelikan cartridges and over 30 years old. Reminds me to use them up. The two different grays are really good ones and I like that orange better than the couple I've bought from other makers.