EFNIR: Waterman Radiant Pink

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Waterman Radiant Pink

This is review #233 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: This was from a short cartridge.  It is indeed radiant, and leans purple.  A very bright color, rather unlike Waterman. While there is technically shading, you really have to look for it.

Cleaning was quick and easy, but may require an extra flush or two of plain water - pink inks tend to cling a little.  No rubbing or pen flush required, just water.

Other (Just a little doodle I made using this ink.)

Zoomed in photo (Fairly close. Might be lacking a little of the purple lean.)

Screenshot (Pretty close.)

Scan of Completed Review (Almost perfect. Go by the color in this one.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (AP: It's darker in real life; CP: It doesn't look fuzzy-edged in real life, color is off a bit.)

Line width (One of the lines used for dry time. Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 300µm. With 233 inks measured, the average line width is 296µm.)

Microscope image (400x. There were several of these, otherwise the ink was boring. Color is very accurate.)

Previous Review: Rohrer & Klingner sketchINK Marlene.

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

[yazeh]

This is a truth exceptional  @LizEF , thanks to your "doodle" and that beautiful microscopic  image. 

The ink itself however is too radiant to my taste , But if it helps Quin to cross the river who am I to argue. If Makhabesh was using this ink in his fireballs, I guess those mean character look even more foolish in flaming pink

 

 

 

 

[LizEF]

1 minute ago, yazeh said:

This is a truth exceptional  @LizEF , thanks to your "doodle" and that beautiful microscopic  image.

  Thanks, @yazeh!

 

1 minute ago, yazeh said:

The ink itself however is too radiant to my taste

It is pretty "in your face".

 

2 minutes ago, yazeh said:

But if it helps Quin to cross the river who am I to argue. If Makhabesh was using this ink in his fireballs, I guess those mean character look even more foolish in flaming pink

[lapis]

Excellent! I love your sketches. Biggest problem here -- IYAM -- is that your doodle dated 29 Mar 2023 ain't no liddle doodle, that's one huge piece of art. I couldn't think of a better "theme" to portray this color.

FWIW, this pink -- originally named  just "Pink" by Waterman -- is and was always only  available in cartridge form. (Unless of course they've changed that recently).

[LizEF]

5 minutes ago, lapis said:

Excellent! I love your sketches. Biggest problem here -- IYAM -- is that your doodle dated 29 Mar 2023 ain't no liddle doodle, that's one huge piece of art. I couldn't think of a better "theme" to portray this color.

Thank you, @lapis!  The doodle is on an "artist trading card", so 2.5" x 3.5"  (63.5mm x 88.9mm), so, still little, even if it's a huge piece of art.   I really enjoy doing these.  There are several on my website.

 

9 minutes ago, lapis said:

FWIW, this pink -- originally named  just "Pink" by Waterman -- is and was always only  available in cartridge form. (Unless of course they've changed that recently).

Well, the "Radiant" addition seems to fit.   Yes, I found it strange how this color is only in cartridges.  And as I recall, their brown was never available in cartridges, which is how it came to be their only color I didn't get a sample of to test.  I got a sample pack with one of each available Waterman short cartridge - a cheap way to test lots of inks.   And then they discontinued Absolute Brown before I got a sample.  

[yazeh]

31 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 The doodle is on an "artist trading card", so 2.5" x 3.5"  (63.5mm x 88.9mm), so, still little, even if it's a huge piece of art.   I really enjoy doing these.  There are several on my website.

They are fantastic. It must be very mediative and relaxing. Maybe in a previous life, you were mosaic master

 

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting color.  Is this ink available in bottles, or just as cartridges?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

They are fantastic.

Thanks, @yazeh!

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

It must be very mediative and relaxing.

Yep.  That's the reason I started doing them.  And it's fairly easy to make something pretty, too.

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Maybe in a previous life, you were mosaic master

  You never know.

[LizEF]

38 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Interesting color.  Is this ink available in bottles, or just as cartridges?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Far as I know, it's only available in cartridges.

[inkstainedruth]

Sigh.  That's a dealbreaker for me. 

Too bad.  I've liked some of the Waterman inks I've tried -- and Mysterious Blue is my go-to ink for the Red Shadow Wave Vacumatic.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Sailor Kenshin]

@LizEF: Whoa!!!  Eye-searing! WHAT a doodle!  And that otherworldly pansy!

 

I might actually have some of this ink, given to me by someone, or in a trade.  I don't think I ever used it.

 

Thanks as always for my favorite ink reviews and Dream Team serial.

 

Current mood: builds bridges for sole purpose of burning them.  Hope Quin et al fare better.

[LizEF]

7 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

@LizEF: Whoa!!!  Eye-searing! WHAT a doodle!  And that otherworldly pansy!

 

7 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I might actually have some of this ink, given to me by someone, or in a trade.  I don't think I ever used it.

Might want to check.  I find Waterman cartridges tend to allow evaporation faster than some other brands.

 

7 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks as always for my favorite ink reviews and Dream Team serial.

You're very welcome!

 

8 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Current mood: builds bridges for sole purpose of burning them.  Hope Quin et al fare better.

  Hope things improve for you quickly!

[Sailor Kenshin]

Now I know why this ink seemed so familiar when I've never written with it: soooo close to the Thornton ink, which I've been using now and then since April.

 

Those groans in the video background?  That's me.

[LizEF]

5 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Now I know why this ink seemed so familiar when I've never written with it: soooo close to the Thornton ink, which I've been using now and then since April.

Oh, yes, Thornton's Magenta is very close.

 

6 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

Those groans in the video background?  That's me.

Perhaps you should see a doctor...?

[InesF]

Wohooo! Thank you @LizEF for the story, for this exciting doodle-artwork , for the inktroduction and for the microscopy.👩‍🎓

 

I didn't know about this Waterman ink (maybe because I do not use cartridges since more than 40 years) and, inkwise, I do not feel having missed something. However, the scientist within me is now a bit sad about the missed opportunity in microscopy of this ink.

 

Looking forward to to more doodles, more story, more microscopy! Keep these good things coming, please!  

[Misfit]

I didn’t know this ink existed either. Thanks for the review. It might be worth getting. Waterman cartridges evidently fit in Visconti C/C pens. I was given a box of them in lieu of a converter at a now closed pen store in Chicago when I bought a Michelangelo pen. 
 

Edit:  wheeee! I found some on eBay! Bought the 6 short cartridges that will cost over a dollar a cartridge. ($6.45)

Edited May 17, 2023 by Misfit

[LizEF]

4 hours ago, InesF said:

Wohooo! Thank you @LizEF for the story, for this exciting doodle-artwork , for the inktroduction and for the microscopy.👩‍🎓

You're very welcome!

 

4 hours ago, InesF said:

I didn't know about this Waterman ink (maybe because I do not use cartridges since more than 40 years) and, inkwise, I do not feel having missed something. However, the scientist within me is now a bit sad about the missed opportunity in microscopy of this ink.

  Well, it's not too late - as far as I know, they still make this ink.  What you'd do with the rest of the cartridges once a minute amount went under the microscope, I don't know, but I'm sure the scientist in you could figure out something.

 

4 hours ago, InesF said:

Looking forward to to more doodles, more story, more microscopy! Keep these good things coming, please!  

Thank you.  Might be a while on the doodles - I have a separate project going right now, so no time to doodle.

[LizEF]

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

I didn’t know this ink existed either. Thanks for the review. It might be worth getting. Waterman cartridges evidently fit in Visconti C/C pens. I was given a box of them in lieu of a converter at a now closed pen store in Chicago when I bought a Michelangelo pen. 

You're very welcome.  Waterman cartridges should fit in any Standard International pen.

 

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

Edit:  wheeee! I found some on eBay! Bought the 6 short cartridges that will cost over a dollar a cartridge. ($6.45)

Hope you enjoy!

[lapis]

Getting back into cartridges -- or taking out that what's in them -- every time we discuss that this pink is only available in cartridges, I also think of Pelikan's  Pink, which is also only available in that form...

🤮

[LizEF]

23 minutes ago, lapis said:

Getting back into cartridges -- or taking out that what's in them -- every time we discuss that this pink is only available in cartridges, I also think of Pelikan's  Pink, which is also only available in that form...

🤮

  Interesting.  I wonder why they chose to do that.