A Mild Durability Test.

[Joshua J.]

So one day I was wondering if my summer ink, Bad Green Gator, has the same blurring effect when wet as Bad Blue Heron.

And while I was at it I figured I may as well throw in a few other inks, just to see what happens.

 

 

 

The inks, (on Staples copy paper) in order from top to bottom are:

Noodler's Bad Blue Heron

Noodler's Polar Black

Platinum Carbon Black

Noodler's Baystate Blue

Noodler's Bad Black Moccasin

Noodler's Black

Noodler's Bad Green Gator

Parker Quink

Pelikan Black

 

(Noodler's Blue Ghost was also at the very bottom, but the camera could only barely differentiate between the ink and the flashlight.)

 

Hoopla! Pics!

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45 minutes in water (with trace amounts of soap).

 

I think my biggest disappointment in this whole test is that Blue Ghost washed off so completely that there was absolutely no trace of it after the first soak. That ink does not play well with water.

 

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50 minutes after pouring household bleach on top.

I also tried some alcohol for another hour or so, but it didn't do anything. The extra soak time did weaken the paper though.

 

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After the paper dried.

(The final rinse tore it up a bit.)

 

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Fortunately Bad Blue Heron wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be, and Bad Green Gator is surprisingly well behaved, even with 33% BBM mixed in.

 

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The most surprising part of the whole test was learning first hand just how good plain old Noodler's Black really is. The feather and fade resistance is incredible. Bad Black Moccasin on the other hand seems to fade a fair bit, and the feathering! It is LASER proof though, so it still has its place.

I tested Polar Black with a dip nib afterwards, it's about the same BBM when you really pour it on. Oppositely regular black almost seems to blob up like a traditional dip pen ink.

Due to the incredible water resistance and the general behaviour of the ink, Noodler's Black will be seeing a lot more use from now on.

 

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Quink and Pelikan Black residue.

 

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[Joshua J.]

I should probably mention the pens.

 

Bad Blue Heron was in a Noodler's piston fill rollerball pen.

Polar Black was in a .4mm Pelikan M150.

Platinum Carbon was in the Platinum Carbon desk pen.

Baystate Blue was in a 1.9mm Lamy Safari.

Bad Green Gator was in my .4mm Pelikan M640 (though it was flowing unusually freely at the moment.)

The rest were done with a Zebra G nib dip pen.

 

Blue Ghost was in a Platinum Plasir (PBG-1000), just in case you're curious. (And yes I do have fun with the ink.)

[SamCapote]

Superb job. That is a very thorough and comprehensive torture test you did on them. It clearly separated the boys from the men. Thanks for your testing, time, and posting all this information. Very very useful.

[Lloyd]

I also tried some alcohol for another hour or so, but it didn't do anything.

 

So, you can hold your alcohol. But, how about the inks?:roflmho:

[Sandy1]

Ah, OK.

I thought the Quink did really well - the shift from Black to Blue when wet clearly shows that it has 'detection' features built-in: if someone tries to alter what was written, the jig's up! Cool.

Too bad I don't use Black FP ink. :-(

Thanks!

S1