Platinum Pigmented Blue Ink is one of Platinum’s three pigmented ink colors along with Platinum Pigmented Rose Red ink and Platinum Pigmented Sepia ink. This standard blue fountain pen ink might have a touch of grey in it, but the blue stands out well on white paper. Platinum Pigmented Blue ink is archival quality ink, being a pigmented ink instead of a water based ink and is also light and heat resistant.

Platinum Pigmented Blue Ink

We found that the Platinum Pigmented Blue ink has the following characteristics, which we hope you find useful.

Testing Factors

Using a glass dip pen by Rohrer & Klingner, which has a broad type nip, using Rhodia Bloc N. 18 paper.

Bottle Sizes

Platinum Pigmented Blue ink comes in a large 60 ml glass bottle with curved sides. The bottle has a good-sized lid, which allows for all pen types to easily access the fountain pen ink inside. Like Sailor inks, the Platinum brand inks come with an internal reservoir, which allows the user to turn the bottle upside down, capturing a small amount of ink needed to fill your pen. This enables capturing the last few drops of ink from a bottle.

Cost

Platinum Pigmented Blue ink retails for a reasonable $20.00, for the large 60 ml bottle. Similar bottles of pigmented ink from other brands retail for more than the Platinum brand. Additionally, Platinum has produced a nice Rose Red pigmented ink and a Sepia Pigmented ink as well as a Black Carbon ink, which is similar to the pigmented inks.

Dry Time

Using the large nib Rohrer & Klingner dip pen, which allows large amounts of pigmented ink to cling to the glass, producing very dark wet lines which take a long time to dry. Our test indicated when using this pen, dry time will take at least 20 seconds. A finer nib will not take as much time, but the pigmented ink may be harder to clean out of your fine or extra fine nib.

Bleed Through

We experienced absolutely no bleeding with Platinum Pigmented Blue ink using the Rhodia Bloc N. 18 paper.

Feathering

Platinum Pigmented Blue ink produced nice distinct lines with no perceptible feathering at all.

Water Test

Platinum Pigmented Blue ink is clearly a waterproof ink, thus great for archival documents. We used a completely wet cotton swab and ran it over sample ink lines after a 3 minute dry time, which produced no color residue, feathering or ink smearing.

Shading

Nice shading was experienced depending on the quantity of ink used, which changed the blue hues from the regular blue to a lighter blue with more grey to a darker blue.

Conclusion about the Platinum Pigmented Blue Ink

The blue Platinum Pigmented ink has a nice color, very reasonably priced, large bottle. Remember, that with any pigmented ink, proper cleaning and care should be applied when using this or any pigmented ink.