Lamy USA Lamy Fountain Pen Boxed Ink Cartridges (5 per pack) Purple

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.

It's nice to have a couple cartridge fountain pens, for travel and other times when you want to load the ink later or reload during a long day of taking notes. I'm using the cartridge in one of the lower cost Lamy fountain pens. It has good flow, keeping the pen writing fairly well during an hour of intense note taking. I'm very pleased with this ink.

I love my Lamy fountain pen and this ink color is gorgeous. The beautiful color ink makes my daily writing fly by.

Love the colors offered for my fountain pen. This company is reliable

My son loves this product. It comes in sturdy packaging. The ink colors are vibrant and just smoothly flows from the pen.

Great ink at a decent price

This is a nice color but I returned as I got wrong color

I used this ink cartridge in a Lamy All-Star fine tip pen. It wrote smooth and dried quickly. I, also, like to see if the ink withstands water. I dropped a bit of water on the dried ink, and while it did smear a little, the ink remained legible. I really loved the color, which is more a royal purple than a violet. I would recommend this cartridge and plan to order more in the future.