EFNIR: Private Reserve Infinity Violet

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Private Reserve Infinity Violet

This is review #269 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: This ink looks gorgeous next to the previous ink (Pilot Mixable Colour Green) in a Pilot CM (stub) nib! All the cameras want to make this ink blurple.  Can't explain it.  Did my best to correct the images. Cleaning was quick and easy with plain water.

Zoomed in photo (Best color match. My eyes don't see the shading that's here. Color started out too blue, but seems pretty close after correction.)

Screenshot (Color isn't quite right. Zoomed out, it looks too pink.  Zoomed in, it's too dark. Can't explain it.)

Scan of Completed Review (Can't really explain this. The text should be both darker and more vibrant...)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Fairly close (but had to color correct).)

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 325µm. With 269 inks measured, the average line width is 296µm.)

Microscope image (400x.  Rectangles and spikes.)

Previous Review: Pilot Mixable Colour Green.

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[Sailor Kenshin]

Oh, that is one pretty color.  For someone like me who's not a purple fan, that is saying something.  And purple always goes well with green. I don't know if I could manage the dry time, though.

 

The micro…flags flying on a tree pole!  Which probably means something mysterious for the Dream Team.  
 

(I may not remember when or how I learned to read but I'm glad I did.) 🎓 📜 📝
 

@LizEF, thanks once again for making Tuesdays special.

[lapis]

I've always found it interesting to see what different companies cough out with their "violet". To me, the color violet is a redder blue-red, whereas a purple is a bluer blue-red. I know, I know, most other folks see it exactly the other way around and of course there's also a blurple. Not yet heard of a predple. In any case, being a PRurple, it's very likely more saturated than an Herbinolet. I myself prefer saturated inks, but the French version looks better to my eyes.

[LizEF]

35 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Oh, that is one pretty color.  For someone like me who's not a purple fan, that is saying something.  And purple always goes well with green.

Me too, and yes!  I always think of Skittles - the purple and green ones always look good together.

 

36 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I don't know if I could manage the dry time, though.

Ah, well, per @InesF's latest experiments, that just means you shouldn't mix this ink with Rhodia dot pad paper! Heaven knows how it would perform on some other brand - I guess that's one reason for reviewers to test multiple papers, but I'm not going to try adding that to my reviews now - no more time to give them!  I've found the paper in my Rhodiarama journals (Clairefontaine 90gsm Ivory Vellum) to always dry significantly faster than the dot pads.

 

38 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

(I may not remember when or how I learned to read but I'm glad I did.) 🎓 📜 📝

Oh, amen to that!  It always baffles me when I encounter someone who doesn't like to read fiction.  (I'm sure I baffle them, too, but still - they don't know what they're missing - whole lives between the covers of a book!)

 

39 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

@LizEF, thanks once again for making Tuesdays special.

Gladly!

[LizEF]

25 minutes ago, lapis said:

I've always found it interesting to see what different companies cough out with their "violet".

Apparently color names are not standardized units of measure.

 

26 minutes ago, lapis said:

To me, the color violet is a redder blue-red, whereas a purple is a bluer blue-red.

To me, they're all "purple".

 

27 minutes ago, lapis said:

I know, I know, most other folks see it exactly the other way around and of course there's also a blurple.

IMO, blurple could be removed from the color spectrum and I wouldn't miss it.

 

28 minutes ago, lapis said:

Not yet heard of a predple.

I think it would have to be just redple - blurple is a blue that leans purple.  So redple would be a red that leans purple (or is that just a red that leans blue or a cool red?).  A purple that leans red would have to be a purpred, and a purple that leans blue a purplue or purblue or purpblue...   (Somewhere out there, an artist is rolling their eyes and naming a thousand shades of red-purple-blue that we don't have memorized, but they do.  Just to show off, they're probably naming the pigment combinations, too.)

 

31 minutes ago, lapis said:

In any case, being a PRurple, it's very likely more saturated than an Herbinolet. I myself prefer saturated inks, but the French version looks better to my eyes.

I'm not sure what shades of purple I prefer - they never really appealed to me enough to drive me into getting samples, but between @yazeh's purple review series and a few I've been reviewing, they're starting to grow on me.  I suppose eventually I'll settle - or none will appeal enough and I'll like them all (except those that approach too close to blurple - blech).

[yazeh]

Thanks for another excellent Tuesday review @LizEF.

I like hoe you're preparing us for the meet the family. I wonder if Mama has a Sphinx, a Snek and a skelton (viscountess E) in her "spelling" group 😁

Which bears the question, do skeletons wear clothes and how do we differentiate one from another

As fir the ink it goes on the naughtiest for me, unless using it on super absorbent paper.

Thanks for bringing so much light to our Tuesdays 🙏🙏🙏

[LizEF]

27 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thanks for another excellent Tuesday review @LizEF.

You're most welcome!

 

28 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I like hoe you're preparing us for the meet the family. I wonder if Mama has a Sphinx, a Snek and a skelton (viscountess E) in her "spelling" group 😁

  I guess we'll see.

 

28 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Which bears the question, do skeletons wear clothes and how do we differentiate one from another

Well, in my imagination, Viscount E and his sons were not wearing clothing, they were just skeletons.  As for how you distinguish them, the same way you do the faces of people - different shapes, sizes, and details.

 

29 minutes ago, yazeh said:

As fir the ink it goes on the naughtiest for me, unless using it on super absorbent paper.

Well, see my note to Sailor - not for Rhodia dot pads, but might be fine on other papers...

 

30 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thanks for bringing so much light to our Tuesdays 🙏🙏🙏

Gladly!

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

Well, in my imagination, Viscount E and his sons were not wearing clothing, they were just skeletons.  As for how you distinguish them, the same way you do the faces of people - different shapes, sizes, and details.

 

Oh my nudist skeletons ! What the world has come to  Now I'm having flashes of Viscount E with tail coat and his son in Jeans

 

[LizEF]

37 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Oh my nudist skeletons ! What the world has come to  Now I'm having flashes of Viscount E with tail coat and his son in Jeans

 

[inkstainedruth]

59 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Oh my nudist skeletons ! What the world has come to  Now I'm having flashes of Viscount E with tail coat and his son in Jeans

 

If Viscount E was also wearing workboots, he would have fit right in at a PDQ Bach concert! 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[InesF]

Thank you, @LizEF, for this inspiring purple ink review that causes so many replies - I feel entertained in multiple dimensions. 

btw.: can colour be the missing fifth dimension? 🤫

 

As much as I'm swimming in purple and petrol inks of all saturation and muting levels, there is never enough purple in this world.  

 

However, I was always a bit restrictive with inks that have special properties, be it permanent, bullet proof, forge proof, hydrogen-fusion proof, or whatever. In similar way I feel repelled from infinity inks, because: "when they are composed to not dry on an uncapped nib, why should they dry on paper?". Such an ink can only be sucked into the paper structure and if the paper is composed to limit this ... then LizEF has to wait >2 minutes for the smearing test. 🥲

 

Again, thank you so much for this review and for showing us the microscopic rope-party behind this inks performance!  

 

PS: I see a landscape, Blanc of Mounts, divided by Tomo & E's River, a small village in one turn with a Clear Fountain and a Rhoad i.A. palace in it's centre where the Original Crown Mill baron resides, who became rich by trading with Lamytown after invention of the Yamamotor transport vehicle. Faber, the former major, is now sitting in his old Castell, lost all his Ambition and writes his memoirs on Toilet Paper.    (sorry, my phantasy is aroused and out of control)

[LizEF]

6 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @LizEF, for this inspiring purple ink review that causes so many replies - I feel entertained in multiple dimensions. 

You're very welcome, and I'm very happy to have provided multi-dimensional entertainment!

 

6 hours ago, InesF said:

btw.: can colour be the missing fifth dimension? 🤫

Anything is possible!

 

6 hours ago, InesF said:

As much as I'm swimming in purple and petrol inks of all saturation and muting levels, there is never enough purple in this world.  

 

6 hours ago, InesF said:

However, I was always a bit restrictive with inks that have special properties, be it permanent, bullet proof, forge proof, hydrogen-fusion proof, or whatever. In similar way I feel repelled from infinity inks, because: "when they are composed to not dry on an uncapped nib, why should they dry on paper?". Such an ink can only be sucked into the paper structure and if the paper is composed to limit this ... then LizEF has to wait >2 minutes for the smearing test. 🥲

Yes, one should not be particularly surprised by this ink taking a while to affix itself to paper...

 

6 hours ago, InesF said:

Again, thank you so much for this review and for showing us the microscopic rope-party behind this inks performance!  

Glad to do it!

 

6 hours ago, InesF said:

PS: I see a landscape, Blanc of Mounts, divided by Tomo & E's River, a small village in one turn with a Clear Fountain and a Rhoad i.A. palace in it's centre where the Original Crown Mill baron resides, who became rich by trading with Lamytown after invention of the Yamamotor transport vehicle. Faber, the former major, is now sitting in his old Castell, lost all his Ambition and writes his memoirs on Toilet Paper.    (sorry, my phantasy is aroused and out of control)

Fabulous!