Here is a scan of a really quick test that I did on two inks that I just purchased in order to decide how and where they are appropriate for my uses.
Here goes:
The test was done on really crappy paper (free promotional paper block from some company or other) both inks had 5 minutes to dry and the paper was soaked in cold water for 15 minutes without any agitation. Just as a note the almost unreadable section was pretty much like it looks now instantaneously.
The almost black is Noodler's Zhivago in a Namiki VP fine. It lost a little bit of it's greenishness and turned a bit more towards black but is obviously pretty much waterproof.
The gray/greenish stuff that is barely visible on the top and very bottom are Private Reserve Midnight Blues in a Visconti medium.
Please excuse the crapy scan, it's not my scanner or software or computer and I just used whatever the default photo scan settings were. What ever they were the image looks extremely zoomed in. The actual paper is only about 3.5" square. At least the color is almost correct on my monitor.
Any comments?
RB