Sailor Ink Studio 280

[lgsoltek]

Sailor Ink Studio 280 is another one of those "multi-hue" inks. The colour ranges from a light green to an ochre, and is very dependant on your nib, wetness, paper and lighting. It's an interesting ink. 

 

The flow is medium and rather bad by Sailor standards (still better than 224 for example), but it's expected from this kind of inks.

 

All images are scans colour-corrected with grey card, except close-up photos which are also white-balanced with a grey card.

 

Splash

 

 

 

Samples

(Pens: Pelikan M600 Broad, Pelikan M400 Fine, Pilot Elabo Soft Fine)

 

(Maruman looseleaf)

 

 

 

(Rhodia)

 

 

 

(Tomoe River)

 

 

 

 

Comparison

(Maruman looseleaf)

 

 

(On different papers)

 

[PithyProlix]

Another stellar and beautiful review! 

 

This is my favorite of the 3 greens you have posted reviews of today - it has a really nice 'organic' look.

 

Thank you!

[mizgeorge]

Love everything about this - the review, the ink, the colour, the photography. Just perfect in every way

 

Thank you!

[LizEF]

I love everything except that the color is unpredictable.  Apparently I'm not ready for unpredictable inks.  But I love the review.

[Tas]

😍 yep!

[ENewton]

I wonder how common it is for customers in Sailor's domestic market to use inks like this not in fountain pens but in brush pens, where a dry flow would not be problematic.

 

This thought occurs to me because I have lately begun to use a brush pen for daily kana calligraphy practice, leaving the project of grinding ink to use on a brush for weekends.  Hence, I have, for the past few days, been shopping around for ink to use in my brush pens.  A search with "brush pen" among the terms revealed that descriptions of TAG Kyoto inks often state that they are suitable for use with brushes.  I did not find any such references in descriptions of inks manufactured in Europe or the United States.

 

On FPN there seem to be almost no references to brush pens, even in the forum called "It writes, but it isn't a fountain pen," and living in San Francisco, I do not often see a brush pen in use, but a few years ago I attended the funeral of a Japanese friend, and the one implement provided for signing the guest book was a brush pen.  

 

I wouldn't be likely to choose a green ink myself, but this series of reviews--thank you, lgsoltek!--inspires the thought that some of the other especially delicate colors in the Ink Studio line would appeal to me for use in certain calligraphy projects.