All Diamine Inks Compared

[fourseamer]

Bravo!!! Especially good scans to boot! The inks I have match what I'm seeing here very closely.

[Mr Ink]

This is great, cybaea. Thank you very much for your time and effort.

 

I suggest that the moderators should pin this because it is bound to be very useful to a great number of FPN members.

 

John

[Strombomboli]

Let me join the choir and tell you how very very useful this is. Thank you very much!

[terminal]

Hard to say anything that hasn't been said, but: Thank You for doing this! Finding a way to arrange the inks as you did is really excellent! I'm bookmarking this thread for reference later. So, which of the inks have the most amazing sheens? (besides Sargasso Sea, which you already mentioned)

[cybaea]

What HSV system are you using? In the HSV I'm familiar with the S & V value range is from 0-100.

 

Normalised to [0; 255]. And sorry: it is HSL.

 

There is actually a small bug in the code, but it is basically renaming the *.jpg swab files as:

 

for f in *.jpg; do hsl=$(convert $f -gravity center -crop 10% -resize 1x1 -colorspace HSL txt: | tail -n 1 | cut -c7-17 | perl -pE 'chomp; s/,/-/g; s/\s/0/g'); g=${f##???-???-???-}; mv -v "$f" "$hsl-$g"; done

 

So really, really easy. When you know how

Edited August 8, 2013 by cybaea

[cybaea]

Hard to say anything that hasn't been said, but: Thank You for doing this! Finding a way to arrange the inks as you did is really excellent! I'm bookmarking this thread for reference later. So, which of the inks have the most amazing sheens? (besides Sargasso Sea, which you already mentioned)

 

You are most welcome.

 

Unfortunately, these are not ideal papers or sample sizes/densities to spot sheen. I will need to have another look at that. And Diamine Sepia will probably be one of the first I test - I think I spot shiny sheen there, but can't be sure.

 

Until then stick with Sargasso Sea, Bilberry, and Majestic Blue. Glorious sheen, all of them.

Edited August 8, 2013 by cybaea

[kharma]

just awesome

 

Thank you very much

[amberleadavis]

OH MY these are amazing!!! And Wonderful!! and TOTALLY COOL!

[djp]

Absolutely jaw-dropping! Thank you for this taking on this titanic task!

[chiaroscuro]

Thank you! This is invaluable (how I would have loved to have had this when I started using fountain pens).

I'd buy you a beer, but that emoticon doesn't exist, so here's a and a

[indigirl]

wow. i've been gone from FPN for a while & so glad i dropped in to catch this! amazing! thank you! (also, i really missed the bunnies.)

[Jared]

I am impressed! What a huge task you've undertaken. Thank you so much for sharing these with us.

[LameJane]

Thank you so much for doing this. I appreciate the extra effort to sort them by hue.

 

May I ask how exactly you produced the samples? Did you dip or fill the pen?

Edited August 9, 2013 by LameJane

[cybaea]

May I ask how exactly you produced the samples? Did you dip or fill the pen?

 

Dipped, wrote a line on scrap paper, then wrote the samples. So expect them a little more saturated than normal, but not much. The Safari feed is really a quite remarkable construction (and, I can add to anyone wanting to reproduce this, a PITA to clean between each sample )

[LameJane]

 

(and, I can add to anyone wanting to reproduce this, a PITA to clean between each sample )

Yeah, hence my question. How did you clean it? Did you make sure that there is no water left in the feed? (Sorry, I am not trying to pick on your methodology, I'm just curious since I might want to do that with my inks at some point.)

[cybaea]

Yeah, hence my question. How did you clean it? Did you make sure that there is no water left in the feed? (Sorry, I am not trying to pick on your methodology, I'm just curious since I might want to do that with my inks at some point.)

 

Cleaning the pen was what took the most time in doing this. I wiped off excess ink, rinsed, dried, flushed the feed with a bulb, and dried it between each ink/line. After 1/2 page I cleaned the whole pen with a soft brush before and after soaking it "for a while" (probably 5-10 minutes, more if I made a coffee). Went through almost two rolls of toilet tissue doing this And litres and litres of water. Fortunately I have a sink in the office.

 

I washed until tissue came away clean from the wet feed. I dried until it came away dry (and then some more drying, to be sure). This included both the front and the back of the feed.

Edited August 9, 2013 by cybaea

[Runnin_Ute]

Very nice work. Hope this gets pinned for reference for everyone. Would be a shame if all that work was not just a click away.

[LameJane]

 

Cleaning the pen was what took the most time in doing this. I wiped off excess ink, rinsed, dried, flushed the feed with a bulb, and dried it between each ink/line. After 1/2 page I cleaned the whole pen with a soft brush before and after soaking it "for a while" (probably 5-10 minutes, more if I made a coffee). Went through almost two rolls of toilet tissue doing this And litres and litres of water. Fortunately I have a sink in the office.

 

I washed until tissue came away clean from the wet feed. I dried until it came away dry (and then some more drying, to be sure). This included both the front and the back of the feed.

Thank you for clearing that up. The amount of work you have put into this is amazing, thank you again.

[Prolix]

Wow, amazing! I've been thinking about getting some more Diamine inks, and this really helps clear up the differences between some similar colors that I've been going back and forth on which to get. Thank you for doing this!

[lapis]

Stunning!

Thank you so much!!

I was just about to say "all that washing and wiping", too and then I also see that you must have spent a day or two lining all up together in a spectral fashion.

Mike