Diamine 80ml Bottled Ink - Special Edition - Writer's Blood

Why did you pick this product vs others?:It's a perfect color contrast to blue-black ink. I like to write in several colors for clarity. Diamine inks have a reputation for safe use in fountain pens.Smudge resistance:This is a minus. On good fountain pen paper, it is a slow drier. As a leftie, I have to keep a rocking blotter at hand.

This is my first Diamine ink and I will be buying more. The color is a deep purple red. I'd been using another (brighter) red that is a bit light for regular note taking or for letters but this darker color has everyday use. It's a great replacement not only for brighter red inks but also an alternative for the brown (sepia) ink I've been using as well. It dried relatively quickly and the 80ml bottle is priced competitively with Noodler's inks and a much better value than some specialty inks that cost 50% more for only 30-50ml. I'm already in search of my next Diamine color, perhaps Solstice.

The color is dead on, i spilled some on my hand by accident and my wife (works in EMS) thought i cut my hand open. thats how close the color is to blood. It dries quick on paper, super consistent, nice glass bottle, honestly for the majority of the journaling I do this is the ink i plan on using long term. absolutely get it

Writer's blood is very suitable for writting the letter to your good frend. Quality - top-of-the range. Flows fluently and very fun to use.

Diamine WRITERS BLOOD ink.I really like this color. It replaces an old bottle of my favorite color that I purchased from Levenger years ago called Claret. Swatching them side by side I can only with difficulty tell the difference. Writers Blood is a deep blood red with a slight purplish cast that I really like. Maybe Claret is slightly more purplish - I can't tell. Writers Blood is very dark, which looks good on the page, but not so dark that it hides the color. It dries consistent and uniform with an EF nib. I am changing all of my inks to Diamine because I like the quality and want my inks' characteristics to be predictable, and the same chemistry in case I decide to get creative and blend them.Diamine does not bleed thru as much as some inks I've tried.

very nice, bigger than I expected! pretty color and bottle.the slightest bit of water will wipe all away.

For this review I inked up a Pilot Animal MR Lizard which was the very first ink in the cartridge. This ink flowed flawless out of the pen and was a noticeable improvement over the inks that traditionally come with pens. I absolutely love the color. I love to watch the letters materialize out from the nib with this ink. I of course got some on my fingers and it washed off fairly easy. It did bleed through quite a bit in the Molskine notebook I used for the photos of the review. A very cool bottle with 80ml of this ink I need to be writing a whole bunch more. And, am excited to. Love it!

The fountain pen ink was aptly named Writer’s Blood. Its color was similar to degraded blood drawn from a cadaver, a dark rusty red. I filled the bladder using a syringe. This method usually gives good results and keeps the nip from looking as though I had used it to flay open a liver. After reassembling the pen and beginning to write in cursive, ink began dripping from the nub leaving dark splotches on the paper that bled through to the reverse side. Now it looked like the business end of an i.v. needle that had pulled out of the vein and allowed the contents of the blood bag to dribble onto the paper, table top and on my ungloved hand. It wasn’t the ink’s fault but an improperly adjusted nib. Once I emptied the ink bladder and cleaned the pen with water and a mild soap, the pen worked flawlessly with the ink beautifully scripted. I liked it and would recommend this ink to any macabre writer who chooses to use a fountain pen over the souless laptop with its bitten Apple logo glowing in the dark.