Ink Review #1787: IWI Great Cold

Let’s take a look at IWI Great Cold from the IWI Standard collection. You can find this ink for sale at Vanness Pens.

The color:

Great Cold is a deep raspberry violet.

*For my swab cards I use a Col-o-ring by Skylab Letterpress, a medium Pilot Ishime and a Mabie Todd Swan.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink has some pretty shading.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.

*For my writing samples I use:

• EF Pilot Vanishing Point

• F, M, B Pilot Ishime

• Vintage Mabie Todd Swan (flex nib)

• Rhodia Goalbook

• Taroko Enigma notebooks (68gsm TR)

• Leuchtturm A5

• Pen & Gear Paper from Walmart

Dry time: 5 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: Medium

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: Low

Other properties: medium shading, no sheen, and no shimmer.

On 20 lb copy paper there is some feathering in all nib sizes as well as some bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Great Cold is closest to Diamine Purple Dream. Click here to see the purple inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Lamy Al-star Purple with a medium nib on an Odyssey notebook. The ink had an average flow.

Overall, there’s more feathering than I prefer in an ink, so I would choose Diamine Purple Dream over this one.

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