PR Avacado [sic]

[JDlugosz]

 

I was able to try Private Reserve Avacado [sic] thanks to the Ink Exchange. I was wanting to learn to scan and calibrate color well, so initially focused on greens because other reviews had reported problems getting them to scan or photograph.

 

The files I present are calibrated correct values in the file, with an embedded ICC profile for Adobe RGB. You should be able to compare any of the scans side-by-side to see the difference, because the exposure and adjustment is exactly the same in each ink scan. To aid color perception on your monitor, there is a thin white border to show the paper color (the paper is faintly blue in sunlight) and a gray matte. The matte is perfectly neutral, so judge the color relative to that.

 

 

My impression using this ink is that it is rather wet, and hard to use for my lettering practice (I'm just learning cursive italic as my primary note-taking hand). Although the stroke width is normal when measured in the scan, it just seems hard to draw the letters the correct size rather than make them larger to form them better. More in the close-up below.

 

 

You can see that it shades, even on the HP Prem. Laser 32# paper. In the extreme close-up, you can check for feathering. Notice the separation of color in the edges, as the cyan component of the dye moves through the paper. You can't see this without a microscope, but the wetness contributes somehow to why I don't like writing with it even though I don't think this is what you call feathering. The line width seems uneven, clear here in the horizontal strokes but better in the vertical. I think it's just sloppy, so save it for a dry writer or a bolder pen.

 

 

 

The color is a Hue of 97° averaged across a spot a little smaller than the stroke width. The hue varies from 95 to 100 overall, showing hue variation as well as intensity change.

 

Compared to Levenger's Gemstone Green (and I suppose others that people would call "Emerald"), that is 179°, or where the green in the vertical hue bar there fades into cyan. This ink, in contrast, is at the other end of the green where it would start to become yellow.

 

—John

 

[JayLo]

Thanks for the review John. The Color Picker adds greatly.

[QM2]

Thanks John,

 

My Avacado is pretty close to your scan here, though in different pens in can look different. I like PR Avacao, because it is as close to a Chromium Oxide Green as I've been able to find in an ink. Still does not hit the mark perfectly though.

 

If you go here and scroll down or do a "Find", you will find an approximation of Chromium Oxide Green in html code:

http://www.dickblick.com/zz004/95/

 

What do you think of it, compared to Avacado?

 

 

QM2

[JDlugosz]

Thanks John,

 

My Avacado is pretty close to your scan here, though in different pens in can look different. I like PR Avacao, because it is as close to a Chromium Oxide Green as I've been able to find in an ink. Still does not hit the mark perfectly though.

 

If you go here and scroll down or do a "Find", you will find an approximation of Chromium Oxide Green in html code:

http://www.dickblick.com/zz004/95/

 

What do you think of it, compared to Avacado?

 

 

QM2

567344 vs 3b7332

So same amount of G, much more R and a little more B. So the chrome is less saturated and yellower. But there's no indication that his color values are calibrated against any particular color space, though the implication is sRGB. Converting my color to sRGB gives 45743F, but that's not what you saw on this thread. If you want to snail-mail me a page with some chromium pigment on it, I'll be happy to scan it with calibrated Adobe RGB to match the green ink scans.

 

--John

[DRP]

Detailed information provided by this review is excellent!

[ethernautrix]

Thank you for a very thorough review!

 

Me, I inked a Sheaffer Lifetime Balance with the Avacado, and the combination of the ink color and the barrel (grey-striated) is so pleasing that even though I don't use green ink much, I can't being myself to change the ink. Also, the Avacado flows out of the nib perfectly.

 

[JDlugosz]

After carrying the pen (Hero 300 Gold) in a briefcase and using it at a card game, I find the ink is somewhat "loose" in the pen and flicked out a little into the cap, but not to the same extent as Tanzanite or Gemstone Green. More annoying is the splatter off the nib that gets on other work, as noted on other threads.

 

I'm not very experienced yet, but I'm guessing that this goes in a dry or fine pen.

 

--John

 

[yumbo]

Great review! This is one of my favorite inks. I wonder why it's intentionally spelled AvAcado and not AvOcado. Perhaps the PR ink Formulatista is named Ava?

 

- Yumbo

[richardandtracy]

Great review! This is one of my favorite inks. I wonder why it's intentionally spelled AvAcado and not AvOcado.

I imagine it's because they made a smelling pistake/ tripe writing error and are too embarrassed to change it, now that the printers & marketing people have got hold of it.

 

Regards

 

Richard.

Edited May 27, 2008 by richardandtracy

[ethernautrix]

Great review! This is one of my favorite inks. I wonder why it's intentionally spelled AvAcado and not AvOcado.

I imagine it's because they made a smelling pistake/ tripe writing error and are too embarrassed to change it, now that the printers & marketing people have got hold of it.

 

Regards

 

Richard.

Thanks for the laugh, Richard!

[Viseguy]

I imagine it's because they made a smelling pistake/ tripe writing error and are too embarrassed to change it, now that the printers & marketing people have got hold of it.

:ltcapd:

I've heard say -- though it may be an urban legend -- that the ink was inspired by a woman named Ava.

[ethernautrix]

I imagine it's because they made a smelling pistake/ tripe writing error and are too embarrassed to change it, now that the printers & marketing people have got hold of it.

:ltcapd:

I've heard say -- though it may be an urban legend -- that the ink was inspired by a woman named Ava.

Who was duped by a cad... O - my!

 

 

(A common tale.)