Ink Review: Diamine Blaze Orange
Today I’m reviewing a sample of Diamine Blaze Orange
I have seen members writing with Diamine Blaze Orange and singing it’s praises, so I decided it was time I tried it. I’m very pleased that I did. I think it’s a great orange ink!
It’s not too light to read, and it’s not too dark to be a true orange. It’s neither pale, nor retina searing.
I found it was a nicely flowing ink that was neither wet nor dry, and I noticed good lubrication on my nib while I was writing with it.
I didn’t see any spread or feathering on most of the papers I tried it with.
With broader nibs it looks considerably darker, while not going as dark as a ‘copper’ ink.
It showed through on some of the papers I experimented with. See the pictures.
Diamine Blaze orange is quite well saturated. In fact, more saturated than some well known orange inks I compared it with. It exhibited plenty of shading with the F and M nibs in my Lamy Al-Star pens. I didn’t see any sheen.
I found it behaved very well, and I really like it. I didn’t experience any clogging or clean-up problems with it. In fact clean-up was very easy. It easily washes off hands with soap and water.
Diamine Blaze Orange is going to become my regular go-to orange ink from now on.
It exhibited no water resistance at all, so I wouldn’t use it on the outside of an envelope if it might get rained on.
- This isn't sold as a waterproof ink, and it shows no water resistance.
- Bearing in mind the review form paper I use is thick with a quite shiny surface at 100gsm, and I used a M nib, this ink dried after 15-17 seconds.
- No smear after dry.
- It has good flow and I found it smooth to write with. I saw no skips or hard starts while I did swabs and dry time tests.
- It is currently available in 80ml glass bottles or 30ml plastic bottles.
- Diamine sell it directly to end-users on their web-site.
- It's a reasonable price.
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Originally Posted by RocketRyan
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