This is another ink review of my new ink cartridge auction offers. Pacific Blue is a mid range blue tone and it is blue, there is no green or or other colour creeping into it. The blue of water and sky. The ink has good characteristics. It has decent shading and if used heavily can halo around the drying edges. It's more dry than wet, so dries fast. It is not overly saturated and so the flow is also mid-range.
When you are writing with it is much darker and has a deep Indigo character. This goes with the wet and your dry result is the middle-range blue that you can see in the test photo. I found it feels a bit like a wetter flow ink, but then doesn't behave that way? The Chromatography test is predictable and doesn't spark any mystery, as the dye is simply the one colour. Water resistance is okay. You can see in the test strip, that the original line is still visible. This shows that the ink doesn't simply flow away with water. Sometimes the longer an ink is allowed to dry, the more permanent it's qualities become. Some of these cartridge colours are pretty quick to flow. This Pacific Blue seems to hold it's own. It's not a deeply saturated blue. If you want that in a blue check out my Hero Blue Black test.
So it's very middle-range definition makes it a very practical and useful colour. It will suite a lot of people's purposes quite well. A bright and vibrant blue. It seems more resistant to water than most of the other inks in this ink cartridge group. By no means would it be any harder to flush your pen. But if you drip or spill on your writing, you do have a chance to recover what was written ...
ABOUT THE INK and International Short CartridgesThese inks are acid free & archival safe. They dry quickly & are only slightly water resistant. (You trade water resistance with a dye that is easy to clean and water-based.) Dyes are non-toxic, pH neutral & Light-fast. All the ink colours are very kind to pens and easy to clean after use. They will store up to three years without any problems. The ink cartridge are European.
These international Short Cartridges are about 38mm long & 8mm in diameter. Most pen bodies will hold one inserted into the pen feeder/section and then one extra spare reversed behind that in the tail of the pen's body.
The short carts fit all the pens I sell which have removable converter pumps. (A long International Cartridge is about the same length as an ink converter. While it holds more, you can't store a spare like with the short.)
