EFNIR: Platinum Black

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Platinum Black

This is review #228 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:


Post-recording notes: Cleaning was quick and easy with plain water. May require an extra flush - it's quite saturated. In my converter, there were two lines where ink had dried that I used a cotton swab to remove. Pen flush would likely have done it too - and it probably wasn't enough to worry about except in my case. Decided to test water-resistance because I heard that it has rather good water resistance.

While this is rather grey, with shading, from my 03/F Platinum Prefounte, it's quite black from my Pilot EF nib. The images all look sufficiently black to me.

Zoomed in photo


Screenshot


Scan of Completed Review


Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper)


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 315µm. With 228 inks measured, the average line width is 295µm.)


Microscope image (40x. Zoomed out to get the bizarre lines and dots pattern. The color itself was boring.)


Water Test Results


Previous Review: Büroservice Bergmann Blaufliessende Eisengallustinte.

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

[Yazeh]

Thu-pendous review as u-thual
I like how you are th-o inclu-thive of people with lithp Ethri

I really love the microscopic images. But if one can have Carbon Black why would want eternity ink

[Sailor Kenshin]

Ooo! A beautiful horizontal forest in the snow!

Is this Platinum Black the same as the cartridge ink? I have a few, well, a lot, of those.

Essri learning to read: cuuute. Funny, though, even as a very early reader, I have no memories of learning to read.

Thanks, as always, for the unique reviews and story that brightens my Tuesdays.

PS: Wait, this IS the cart? Iz confoozd…

[LizEF]

Thu-pendous review as u-thual
I like how you are th-o inclu-thive of people with lithp Ethri

I really love the microscopic images. But if one can have Carbon Black why would want eternity ink

Thanks! I went back to look, and Platinum Carbon Black also took eternity to dry... I'm almost to the end of this Rhodia pad and I'm really curious if the next one will be the same or if this one got super-sized (in such a way that ink won't dry on it).

[LizEF]

Ooo! A beautiful horizontal forest in the snow!

Is this Platinum Black the same as the cartridge ink?
...
PS: Wait, this IS the cart? Iz confoozd…

This is from a cartridge. Plain Black, not Carbon.

Essri learning to read: cuuute. Funny, though, even as a very early reader, I have no memories of learning to read.

Thanks, as always, for the unique reviews and story that brightens my Tuesdays.

Essri just gets less resistible by the second... It is strange, what you can't remember, right. I guess mom would read to me and then with me, because I know I could read and write before kindergarten - I remember that much.

You're very welcome!