Ink Review #2635: Private Reserve Black

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Private Reserve Infinity Black is from the Infinity collection. You can find these inks for sale at most retailers including Vanness Pens, who has it on sale right now.

The color:

Infinity Black is a medium black.

*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 a little bit of black sheen.

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:

Dry time: 50 seconds

Water resistance: Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: no shading, low black sheen, and no shimmer.

On 20 lb copy paper the ink worked pretty well, just a little bit of feathering and bleeding in the flex nib.

Comparison Swabs:

Infinity Black is similar to Faber-Castell Carbon Black. Click here to see the black inks together.

Longer Writing:

I used a Pelikan M205 Moonstone with a fine nib on a Taroko Enigma notebook. The ink has an average flow.

Overall, this is an average ink. It’s designed to flow well even when you leave the cap off the pen for a while, but I didn’t notice that it flowed any better than the average ink.

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