I've Got The Blues Magoos :) Informal Blue Comparisons

[white_lotus]

Well this is my first ever ink comparison. So I apologize if don't have very good scans, my pengirlship is poor, I lack multiple nib sizes, especially the italics, fines, and stub 1.5! I only have three pens and they're all medium nibs. I'm sorry again if I am boring.

 

I will be adding to this thread additional scans of the other blue inks as I run through the ink already in the pens. Then I'll switch to a different blue.

 

I simply used the regular settings on the Epson scanner I have as part of the Epson WF-7520 printer. When I scaled the images down for uploading, they were individually 3.4 Mb, so I had to make them smaller, but I set the quality to "high". Now I have smaller file sizes that I can upload. I hope the quality is preserved.

 

The inks in this set are:

 

Lamy Blue-black

Iroshizuku Shin-kai (Deep Sea)

J. Herbin Bleu Nuit

Organics Studio Mark Twain Halley's Comet

 

The pens I used were

Lamy 2000 medium

Aurora Ipsilon Deluxe medium

Shaeffer 1960's "school pen"

 

when my Edison Beaumont arrives, I'll add that to the mix.

 

The papers I used were:

Moleskine (I know some of you have issues)

Mohawk via linen 70# text

Office Max Inkjet paper

 

After starting the project I realized from other posts on FPN that I should have tested the SAME INK in DIFFERENT PENS. But I didn't do that. It may have made more of a difference if I had different nib widths, but with them all being mediums, maybe not so important?

 

Thanks so much for your time, and if you have any suggestions about how I can do better next time, let me know!

 

OK, without further ado, the images!

 

 

 

 

Edited April 1, 2014 by white_lotus

[Alexandra]

I really like the look of Iroshizuku Shin-kai and Organics Studio Mark Twain even though it doesn't appear to shade. Do either of these inks have any kind of water-fastness?

[lapis]

Nice review of 4 nice inks. Thanks for all of that writing. Much better than a swab or 4.

 

Mike

[Sandy1]

Hi,

 

Many thanks!

 

I always like to see even more samples of inks that I have, which show not only the influence of different pens & papers, but the author's hand too.

 

And now that I've added OSMTHC to my bottomless Wish List, I reckon you've earned the honorific 'Enabler of Inky Enjoyment'.

 

Whee!

 

Bye,

S1

Edited April 2, 2014 by Sandy1

[lapis]

.... Umm.... is there a topless Wish List?....

[white_lotus]

I haven't gotten to any water resistance testing on these. I was assuming that that particular property had been covered in other reviews.

 

I happen to like all the inks. They've all been what I think people would call "well-behaved". Of course, my pen examples are limited, and I'm kind of liking wet inks I think.

 

The OSMTHC (gosh already starting to abbreviate!) is a very nice purple, strong is color, but not bright. It's very deep.

 

The J. Herbin Bleu Nuit is a very soft color, very easy on the eyes. But I'm not sure I was using the fountain pen as a dip pen correctly. I may not have been getting enough ink in the feed. (Is that the right terminology?)

 

And it looks like maybe I should have made a few of the scans bigger. But next time.

 

Thanks so much for the nice comments!

[Sandy1]

.... Umm.... is there a topless Wish List?....

 

... Ah …

 

As this is FPN - not Crazy Horse - a topless Wish List would be that of a procrastinator.

 

[martinbir]

 

... Ah …

 

As this is FPN - not Crazy Horse - a topless Wish List would be that of a procrastinator.

 

 

Excellent!

 

I was having trouble with the concept but now I understand completely.

 

I might procrastinate, but not until tomorrow.

[amberleadavis]

http://sheismylawyer.com/She_Thinks_In_Ink/2014-Inklings/slides/2014-Ink_301.jpg

[white_lotus]

The scan implies that the J. Herbin is brighter. But that's a problem with computer screens in general they show more "brightness" and less "saturation" and "depth" than what's really there.

 

OOPS. I wrote "Bleu Nuit" but it's really "Eclat de Saphir"

 

Edited April 14, 2014 by white_lotus