EFNIR: Pilot Mixable Colour Orange

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Pilot Mixable Colour Orange

This is review #259 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: This is a very bright, red-leaning orange.  Cleaning was simple but did require some extra flushes.  The ink also got behind the piston of my converter, but I don't think that's the ink's fault, I think the converter just needed re-greasing. The microscope slide was boring - some spikes like many other inks had, some pink here and there, but mostly flat orange.

NOTE: The cartridge appears to have suffered from evaporation (all the unused ones have), so I added some distilled water to top it off before inking the pen.  This may skew the color, flow, and lubrication results, but I don't believe the impact will be significant.

Zoomed in photo (I think the color needs to be a little more red and a little less neon, but it's not too far off, and I think this is the most accurate.)

Screenshot (The text is too dark.  (Attempts to lighten it left it washed out rather than bright, so I left it too dark.))

Scan of Completed Review (The scanner rendered this ink red, without orange.  I color-corrected as best I could. It's not quite right, but gives the right idea (on one monitor)...  What looks like shading in the image does not reflect real life. I think maybe the ink was still wet and shiny when I scanned it.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Both images seem a bit too neon to me.)

Line width (The "I" in "Ink:". 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 314µm. With 259 inks measured, the average line width is 295µm.)

Previous Review: Platinum Red.

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[lapis]

"... until I run out of ink!"... har, har, that's a good one. (Meant only with much  🥰, respect, and admiration....)

[I-am-not-really-here]

Hm, dry time infinity.  Well that's out.  Though truthfully this ink was never in to begin with for me.

 

Thank you for the review!

[LizEF]

12 minutes ago, lapis said:

"... until I run out of ink!"... har, har, that's a good one. (Meant only with much  🥰, respect, and admiration....)

  Well, what I really mean is "until I've reviewed all the ink I have and decide not to get new inks".  But so many kind people send me inks now and then that I may never run out.  Right now, I have enough to keep reviewing through at least the end of next year.

 

Thank you!

[LizEF]

7 minutes ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

Hm, dry time infinity.  Well that's out.  Though truthfully this ink was never in to begin with for me.

  I've found that these Pilot Mixable Colour inks can be diluted with water by a significant amount (at least 1/4 water) without impacting the color or lubrication.  They'll flow a little drier and dry a lot faster.  In other words, they have a very, very high dye concentration.  I suspect that's why these have the steel ball in them where other Pilot inks don't - to help keep the dye mixed.

 

9 minutes ago, I-am-not-really-here said:

Thank you for the review!

You're very welcome!

[yazeh]

Another excellent review for an undeserving ink @LizEF 

I had more than a chuckle when I read, if you're looking for an ink that doesn't dry on FP friendly paper 

I had a feeling it was Marsell... that oily " thtinking thpider".

 

Thanks for bring brightness to a dull fall day 🙏

 

 

[LizEF]

23 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Another excellent review for an undeserving ink @LizEF 

Thanks, Yazeh!  I used up the remainder in my Prera with a CM (stub) nib, and loved this ink there.  It's very bold and in your face.

 

24 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I had more than a chuckle when I read, if you're looking for an ink that doesn't dry on FP friendly paper 

  Yeah, I'm quite confident all these Mixable Colour inks will be that way.  For those of us not using Parallel pens, the trick is to dilute them!

 

25 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I had a feeling it was Marsell... that oily " thtinking thpider".

I can't remember when I discovered it - long before writing this scene, of course, but it was quite a surprise to me when I learned Marsell was the one messing with the Source!

 

26 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thanks for bring brightness to a dull fall day 🙏

You're most welcome!

[Sailor Kenshin]

@LizEF: Big fan of orange inks here, but this seems more red than orange, and WHAT!? no shading?  😾 Not to mention Eternal Dry Time?  

 

However, I love your reviews, and that goes double for the story.  Oily Sorcery rears its greasy head once more!  Perhaps we could squeeze some into those car gears… 😸

[LizEF]

10 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

@LizEF: Big fan of orange inks here, but this seems more red than orange, and WHAT!? no shading?  😾 Not to mention Eternal Dry Time?  

  Yeah, this is very red leaning (though the online pictures may make it look even more red than reality), and yeah, it's so concentrated with dye that there's no shading.  If it were diluted, in addition to the dry time problem being solved, we might get some shading, but alas, I used it all up, so we'll never know (unless someone else gets some and tries it...).

 

12 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

However, I love your reviews, and that goes double for the story.

Thank you! 

 

13 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Oily Sorcery rears its greasy head once more!  Perhaps we could squeeze some into those car gears… 😸

[InesF]

Thank you, @LizEF, for this ink review and for the story. At first I thought, you may now relax the tension. But no. Knowing "the wizard behind the scenes" doesn't resolve the riddle - at least not for me. 🫢  Maybe I missed some essential part - or this is not the end, is it?

 

I feel lucky. Good things happen with my ink collection, maybe because this type of colour is not on my priority list ...  

Thank you, @LizEF, once more, for the inspiring quotes! 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @LizEF, for this ink review and for the story.

You're very welcome!

 

1 hour ago, InesF said:

At first I thought, you may now relax the tension. But no. Knowing "the wizard behind the scenes" doesn't resolve the riddle - at least not for me. 🫢  Maybe I missed some essential part - or this is not the end, is it?

Definitely not the end!

 

1 hour ago, InesF said:

I feel lucky. Good things happen with my ink collection, maybe because this type of colour is not on my priority list ...  

 

1 hour ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @LizEF, once more, for the inspiring quotes! 

Gladly!