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This review did not turn out as well as I had imagined it would. I appreciate the reviews here that much more now. All of the pictures can be enlarged quite a bit. So, although in general they are pretty dark, when viewed at large size they're still useful. Onto the review...

 

Gate City Orchid is very similar in color to Waterman Violet, which is one of my favorite inks! However, it's not the same color. It's difficult to discern from these photos but WM purple is slightly more purple than GC orchid, and the shading is darker.

 

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I've run out of staples eco-friendly paper, but found this sheet inside of a book. The sheet had WM violet text on it, written with a RealoF. Ignore what the page says about everything above blah blah! [this picture is just orchid]

 

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Using the sheet of eco-friendly paper I took the same 1911 sailor realo F and copied some of the text on the sheet above or near lines which had been written in WM violet.

 

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The dry time of this ink? It takes over a minute to dry, from either of the pens used (149F and RealoF). On the staples paper it's better at approx. 30 seconds.

 

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On newspaper:

 

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Here is part of the review written on rhodia paper:

 

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Results:

Orchid has high flow and good lubrication. The lines I write tend to spread more than I've observed from my other inks, excluding the other Gate City inks that I have. It doesn't feather on rhodia paper when dispensed from high flow sailor F and MB F nibs. However, it does feather more-so than my other inks on staples eco-friendly paper. Color wise it's slightly lighter than waterman violet, and the shading pools are also lighter/less distinct than those of WM violet. When I first opened my bottle, and while writing with the ink I noticed a pretty strong smell. It may be a general truth that, when using ink, you will be inhaling the vapor of any volatile compounds in the ink. However, if I can't smell anything, then I'm not reminded of that, which is what I prefer. One thing that I do like about the ink is that it's very easy to wash off of skin. This comes in handy because the dry time for GC Orchid is atrocious; coming in at over 1 minute on rhodia, and approximately 30 seconds on staples eco-friendly. In short, this ink, along with its true blue and basic black brethren, received one-way tickets to "never being used again-land."

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Very nice review and comparison, thank you!

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Nice review, thanks for taking the time to do this.

 

The slow dry time is interesting. One of the advertised features of Everflo is that it is quick drying, so it's useful to see how it performs in the real world.

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Very interesting.... Since it appears so close to Waterman Purple, I wonder: if Everflow True Blue and Everflow Orchid are mixed 50:50, will we get a new Binder Bluple?

 

May be very tempted to try this as I'm all out of Waterman Purple.

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The slow dry time is interesting. One of the advertised features of Everflo is that it is quick drying, so it's useful to see how it performs in the real world.

This also interests us, because we specified quick drying, and our initial samples did dry quickly. We'll be discussing this with our supplier. :(

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Very interesting.... Since it appears so close to Waterman Purple, I wonder: if Everflow True Blue and Everflow Orchid are mixed 50:50, will we get a new Binder Bluple?

 

May be very tempted to try this as I'm all out of Waterman Purple.

 

I like your idea and I'm gonna mix up a small batch to see what it looks like.

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On my monitor, this looks like a spectral violet. Most of the violets ive come across are blue purples, so if this ever becomes available in the UK I could be tempted regardless of the drying time.

 

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Thanks for the review. I received a sample from GouletPens and tried it this evening.

 

To my eye, Orchid seems less red, more blue than Waterman violet/ purple. In a Pelikan M200 cursive italic (fittingly, one from RichardsPens) on Clairefontaine paper, Orchid shades quite nicely - appreciably more than the Waterman from the same pen and on the same paper. So shading is your thing, and you don't already have the Waterman, Everflo would be the way to go.

 

Also, with the above pen/paper combo, I did not find Orchid's drying time particularly long. Certainly nothing that would make me hesitate to purchase the ink.

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Yea my bottle of Orchid takes forever to dry. You're scan (at least on my monitor) looks the same as mine. I wasn't thrilled with the ink either, and have only used filled it once.

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