 Okay, today we have an ink comparison for you. We're going to compare six of our go-to purple inks. We have an Irohizuku ink by Pilot. Everyone loves the ink bottle for the 50 milliliter Irohizuku inks. So if we happen to get you attached to this purple, that's a bonus. It's a Mirasaki Shikibu, and I 100% am not pronouncing that correctly. Sorry. First we're going to do an ink splash for you. So this is the first ink. And these are all going to be on the Clarifontaine Triumph paper. The second ink is a Sailor ink, and this is one of the Sailor Yuramekyu inks, the 20 milliliter ink bottles. And this is the first set of inks that they released fairly recently that are the color-changing inks. And the color of the ink changes depending on the paper that you use, and the length of time that they have to develop on the paper, etc. We're also including a color-verse ink, and this is the mini version of Opportunity Ink from their Red Planet series. The Opportunity Purple Ink was originally available in the really large, I believe at the 65 milliliter color-verse from the pair. But so people love this 5 milliliter version. And next we have a Moni Verdi, and this is Purple Mist Ink. The Moni Verdi inks are really usable and affordable, and they have a lot of great colors. Let's see if this is one of them that draws you in. And then after the Moni Verdi Purple Mist Ink, we're going to also take a look at a Conklin, and it's the Conklin Vintage Purple Ink. And the Vintage Ink Collection Conklin released last year in 2022. I love their bottles. I love the look. The vintage look really draws me in. The Private Reserve Ink is plum, and if you love a wide opening for your ink, Private Reserve, all the way. Their ink bottles have a huge opening at the top. So this is plum on clear fontane. Okay, and now let's do writing samples. And we're using a J. Herban's spiral glass dip pen to write these writing samples out. We're going to go through all and all of the ink splashes and identify them with the ink name and brand and series on these first. And then we'll get started with a dry test and a water test for you. I always feel the need to apologize for inky fingers, but then I bet many of you also have inky fingers. So I'm not going to just know that's ink all over my hands all the time. Okay, so we're going to start the dry test. Just going to write out dry test 123 and then water test 8, 9, 10 on all of these. But after I let the dry test dry for about 10 seconds, I'm going to give it a swipe with a dry cotton swab to show you how dry it got within about 10 seconds. And then we're going to let the water test 8, 9, 10 line dry for two minutes and then come back with a wet cotton swab and swipe across the water test line just to show you how water resistant. These are none of these inks are, you know, designed to be waterproof, but we just like to see how effective they'll be by wet water by getting wet. Okay, and looking at this, the Conklin and private reserve dried the fastest. Most resistant to water, I'd say is the private reserve plum and the most interesting effect water had was probably that Uramecu by Sailor. Take a look at school. This was our purple ink comparison. Hope you enjoyed it. Follow for more and visit pinchley.com to find these inks.