A very nice friend found a partially full bottle of Parker Penman Sapphire for me, and it arrived on Friday.
I don’t chase vintage inks, so this will be my first and last bottle of this one, but it’s great to have more to use. PPS is a great blue color, very deep, with nice shading. This ink is saturated, is not easy to clean, and it has red sheen out the wazoo. I like less saturated inks; I like easy-to-clean inks; and I’m neutral on sheen. And I still adore PPS. It is special.
I put it in a Kaweco AL-Sport with extra-fine nib this time.
Fountain Pen Follies 
After you dilute it let us know if you like it as much, if it is easier to clean out and if it had tons of sheen factor still please.
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It’s so saturated, I guess a little dilution won’t make too much difference.
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I have about a sample’s worth of PPS. When I finally tried it, I found that a bit of dilution made the color prettier to my eyes. Funny, I prefer saturated inks, but with this one, I like it better somewhat diluted.
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I’m going to try that, thank you. It will also make it last longer. 🙂
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A nice ink, I used some years ago and its reddish hue was somewhat annoying on smears. Apart from this, it was a very nice ink to write with, a deep, intense colour, never clogging the nib on regular use, a nightmare when left dried in the pen.
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It is not low maintenance. 🙂
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