Lamy Cartridges Refill - Violet (5) T10VI

Brought a friend a Lamy Aubergine pen. These violet cartridges seemed the best match. Pity Lamy just put a bog standard blue cartridge in the box.

As advertised

Great vibrant colour and, as expected, it refills my Lammy fountain pen perfectly. I’d buy again.

I have been using Lamy fountain pains for many years and love them to death! :) This is the first time I noticed violet as an available ink refill color (perhaps my oversight, not sure how long they've been available) but I HAD to try it out as purple is my main theme color. INSTALLATION - 5 stars, same as all other Lamy cartridges I've used before. Push in firmly, wait for the SNAP as the ink tube penetrates the end of the cartridge, wait a few seconds. LINE QUALITY/FLOW - I give this ink 5 stars for flow and line quality ... it literally made a perfect line the first time the nib touched the paper ... NO skip at all, not even on the first stroke. It continues to lay down really nice, consistent, smooth lines. COLOR/HUE - (personal preference) The shade of purple ink is very pleasing to my eye. I'm not sure what international standard color system you use, so I can't give you an absolute reference, but I'd describe it as a strong, "very slightly to the red" side of purple ... it's definitely NOT a blueish purple (not the color of the petals on a violet flower) but neither is so red as to be called a magenta. Perhaps a mulberry? Whether or not you will like it depends on your preferences, but I do like it. See attached photo sample. I should note that I feel the color compliments the hue of the Al-Star purple Lamy pen body. DRYING QUALITIES - the ink dries fast enough that I haven't had it smear on me yet in 2 days of heavy writing. I should note that the hue/tone change slightly as the ink dries. It starts off a bit lighter tone and slightly redder hue and dries to the darker/bluer, ending up in a medium mulberry (see photo). TRANSLUCENT/OPAQUE - I'd describe this as a medium opaque ink. Some inks, when you look at droplets of them on a bright surface, you can't see any trace of light reflecting back through the ink droplet ... completely opaque. This ink allows some light reflection back through the ink. So if you want a seriously opaque purple ink, this might not work for you. I would NOT describe this as a watery, or "thin" or overly transparent ink. It puts down a line I like very much. I will update this review in the future if any new properties of this ink come to light.

VIEL ZU TEUER! Das ist halt schon dreist so viel dafür zu nehmen das tut mir echt leid... :( qualli is aber okay

I thought I'd try a different colour, but so far the ink coming out of the pen looks navy, which is fine. The ink is visible which is what you want a fountain pen to have.