[ABS] Indigo coloring

Extruder:Filastruder #1870 v1.6 running stock aside from full barrel insulation

Extrusion:
Temp: 189c
Rate: 8~" per minute
Average diameter: 1.80mm with a tolerance of .05mm+/-

Printer: Solidoodle 2 pro, E3D v5, Bulldog XL, Lawsy's/wardjr's carriages, fishing line, Claghorn's direct Y drive, RUMBA

Mixing: At first I thought I would get to use my Pelletizer again, but my first attempt was a success, which made my original plan a failure
Originally, I was going to blend blue and red to make purple, pelletize, then blend equally with blue. However, the original mixture of 50g virgin MG94, 2.5g blue, and 1g red did the job.


Extrusion went a little slower than my normal run of colored filament, but I also knew what I was getting myself into when I dumped 6% masterbatch ratio into the hopper. And though it seemed highly consistent in color while gathering on the floor, once spooled (see above pic), there was more blue present than I had wanted. Either way, filament is filament and I ran a few prints with it and even the slightly bluer sections of filament printed with little to no noticeable difference in color.
Printing: Glass bed 97c with Aquanet Extra Super Hold is the go to for most when printing ABS, myself included. Hotend was set to 232c.

Comparison to available filament: To my knowledge, indigo is not available on the open market, but at first glance it does somewhat resemble Octave's "galaxy blue" which is tiny light specs in the filament, but doesn't print anywhere near as well as the indigo batch I had just made.

Takeaway and comments: I must say that it came out a touch darker than I would have wanted. An extra .5-1g of virgin ABS would have helped, but I wanted it to be deep. After printing, I tried to take a good pic and the printer lights were the only source of illumination that brought the shade out. I showed it to a few friends as well as the wife and the debate sounds an aweful lot like that dress arguement on social media in 2015. But maybe that's because indigo is a rarely used and marketed color.