Ink Review: Diamine Bilberry

[Chrissy]

I have decided to review some of my inks. These aren't necessarily in any particular order.

This one is Diamine Bilberry. This is a very popular colour and is a nicely saturated, purply blue ink, but the flow can be a little wet in some pens. I have never had a problem with lubrication for this ink.

I started off my review with my new Parker Duofold M nib, but found it was too wet in that pen, so I filled my Lamy Nexx M with it instead. It's interesting to see how differently it behaves in 2 pens. The Duofold is a new pen to me, so I really wanted to try it out. As it's pearl and black I cleaned it out and refilled it with Mystery Ink 7 instead.

• Water test on the review form shows this isn't a waterproof ink. In fact 2 drops of water almost completely washed it away.

• Bearing in mind the paper I use is very smooth, and the nib was a medium, this ink took 16-18 secs to dry. It doesn't smear when dry though.

• It flows wet, and lubricates the nib well.

• It is currently available in 80ml glass bottles or 30ml plastic refill bottles.

• Diamine sell it directly to end-users on their web-site.

• It's a reasonable price

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