Diamine Blue Black

[chuancao]

Yes, very nice. Looks like Pelikan BB on steroids.

Here's a small scan of my blue black. It's even more green than the scan shows...

[Garageboy]

Any one have problems of crusting?

[Monsieur Dupont]

Just to add another data point: my monitor also shows a lot of grey in the scan. My bottle, on the other hand, has no grey whatsoever; on white paper, it's something of a dark blue with greenish undertones.

Regards

Mine shows definite green tints too. My wife even described it as turquoise when I asked her if she liked it. I think that's a bit overstated though.

M

 

[chuancao]

Just to add another data point: my monitor also shows a lot of grey in the scan. My bottle, on the other hand, has no grey whatsoever; on white paper, it's something of a dark blue with greenish undertones.

Regards

Mine shows definite green tints too. My wife even described it as turquoise when I asked her if she liked it. I think that's a bit overstated though.

M

 

I still can't decide whether I like it or not. I decided not to use in my wall street because it does crust. It crusts on every single pen i used. For those reasons, I am now only using it on cheaper steel nibbed pens.

[Monsieur Dupont]

 

I still can't decide whether I like it or not. I decided not to use in my wall street because it does crust. It crusts on every single pen i used. For those reasons, I am now only using it on cheaper steel nibbed pens.

Yep - mine crusts very slightly on my Dupont pen come to mention it. It's the only Diamine ink that does so out of the several I've tried to date.

M

[punch]

This ink crusts on my Dupont also. I need to flush the nib every three days or so. Problem is, the ink looks so good and writes so well, it is worth the extra maintenance.

[churl]

I know a lot of posters have mentioned crusting in this thread and previous ones. I've never had this problem. I've had some nib creep, but otherwise it's behaved very well for me.

 

As far as the color, I concur that it has some green undertones and the best way I can describe it is that it looks antiqued or aged, but the color is quite vibrant. There was a thread in Inky Thoughts about the best BB, and someone had a nice sample.

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...st&p=565997

 

From the sample on that thread, on my monitor, the Parker and Waterman BB's were off, but the Diamine was spot on.

[Alastair]

My two-pennyworth

 

I am just finishing a bottle of Waterman BB and starting on Diamine BB. Diamine seems consistently darker than Waterman and both have a green/turquoise tinge with Waterman very turquoise. Diamine shows better shading than Waterman.

[andybiotic]

Like I said in the other review, this ink is rather heavy on the green side, I would not have a problem calling it green-black instead of blue-black... The image in this review (could just be my screen though) appears grey and I dont see that with my experience of the ink...

[KrazyIvan]

I tried a sample and agree with others that it is more black/green than blue/black.