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INK : DIAMINE GREY


PAPER : RHODIA #16 A5 white lined

PEN : Onoto Magna 261 Medium nib tweaked for wet flow by John Sorowka (Oxonian).

Scanner : IT8-calibrated Epson V600 flatbed
Colour Space : Adobe RGB
Matte : 50% grey and 100% white
Post-process : Unsharp Mask

Colour Balance : Neutral

http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/fountainpennetwork/ReviewGrey.jpg

WATER RESISTANCE : One thing I wish to point out immediately is that I changed my mind about the water-resistance of this ink between the quick test I did when writing this page and the proper drip and soak test I did afterwards. I found that once dry, Diamine Grey is almost fully water-resistant. Almost none of the colour lifts and what is left behind is very clearly legible.

DRYING TIME : Fairly long, particularly since I use a nib and feed adjusted for very wet flow. On copy paper the dry time was between 20s and 30s.

BLEED THROUGH : I saw a little bleed-through on Pukka 80gsm copy paper but it was well-behaved on Rhodia as expected.

Here is a close-up of the swab.


http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/fountainpennetwork/ReviewGreySwab.jpg

The character of this ink will change on coloured paper. I tried it on Ivory paper and it allows the paper colour through nicely.

And a close-up of the shading.

http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/fountainpennetwork/ReviewGreyShade.jpg

Shading was only slight. As this is a low-saturation ink so I would not expect to see heavy shading with it.

Water tests were interesting...

http://www.dcoffey.co.uk/images/fountainpennetwork/ReviewGreyWater.jpg

The ink was robustly water-resistant and clung to the paper strongly.

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Thanks for the review. It's great to have a grey that's just grey.

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Thanks Daniel for a great revue. I have been seriously looking for a good gray ink and this may be the one.

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Very nice light colored gray, very close to the sailor grey in terms of color. Thanks for the review.

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Thank you for the review. Do you have MB Oyster or Albert Einstein for a side by side comparison at all?

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Good review of a favourite ink. As you mention it has no blue of green shade; it dries into a nice pencil-grey colour. Drying time with my Lamy 2000 and Parker Falcon is shorter than the ones mentioned in the review.

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Thanks Daniel, this ink looks beautiful. Looks like another wonderful Diamine ink to add to my rapidly expanding collection.

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I have been wanting to try this one for a while, and your review has tipped my hand. Thanks!

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Diamine Grey is my wife's favorite ink to use outside of grading papers... Nice review.

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Thanks very much for the review - I've suddenly taken to good grey inks, and 'different' blue blacks also. You've just sold me a bottle.

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The Grey is not only almost completely grey (with practically none of the pencil-lead-like green of Graphite), the Grey is much drier than the Graphite. The Graphite is a very wet Diamine.

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