Originally Posted by
SchaumburgSwan
Originally Posted by
azkid
I also found Diamine Registrar's flowed nicely. Not dry as I'd heard about IG inks. Nowhere near as dry as Diamine Twilight or Damson or Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black. It's quite nice to use, really.
Crissy, azkid,
I see. I can't proof my impression, no test capillars are at hand. I have at least one pen always inked with DRI, right now a very wet 1915 eye dropper... before that ESSRI it felt a bit wetter here.
Agree 4001 BB is dry... much drier than Herbin Perle Noir.
Best wishes
Jens
It might be the old chestnut: Precisely what does each individual consider as flow versus lubrication?
Diamine Registrar's ink flowed very well through my Lamy pens as there was always plenty of ink available for writing at the tip, so it wasn't what I would ever describe as a dry flow. Flow surely has to suggest movement from A to B? Therefore I consider flow as the feeling of the amount of ink that makes it through the pen and reaches the nib tip. i.e. does it feel like there is enough ink there when you write?
I have some pens where there seems to be much less ink flowing through the pen and out of the tip. It often feels like hard work to get some ink flow at all through some pens. Almost like there is a constriction hampering the flow of ink from it's source to the nib tip. That's what I consider as the difference between flow that's wet or dry.
I didn't try it with any dip pens as I only use a glass dip pen when I write an ink name with a comparison ink. I didn't consider comparing it compare it with J.Herbin Perle Noir as that's neither IG ink nor is it blue-black. I tried to compare it with similar inks. They might not all be similar.
I had a quick look around at other reviews: Desk of Lori, DC Waites on FPN described DRI flow as medium to wet and wet yet it was described on Reddit as extremely dry. I guess it all depends on what pens and paper you use as well as what your meaning of flow versus lubrication is.
Anyway, my review is my opinion reached while I was writing with my ink sample using my pens on my paper. YMMV.
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