Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Diamine Writer's Blood
This is review #214 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:
Post-recording notes: Cleaning was surprisingly quick and easy. It may need a few extra flushes because of how saturated it is, but it comes out easily. This ink is basically a super-concentrated pink - see the microscope smear.
Wrote really wet after filling, for about 1/3 of an A5 page, then slowed down to what I assumed was normal. The next day, after a paragraph, it wouldn't write. I flossed the tines and it gushed. Wrote for another half page and it seems to be still flowing very wet. The ink didn't clog again, it's still flowing extremely fat and writing a wide line. Don't know what clogged the pen at the start - I clean thoroughly between inks and the pen hasn't had glitter in it in forever. Fluke, I guess. See the writing on the swatch card in the video for the difference.
This ink seems to attract barking dogs.
Zoomed in photo (Very close, but the photo seems almost to have some brown in it, which the paper doesn't)
Screenshot (Also close, though the text is so dark you may have a hard time seeing any color.)
Scan of Completed Review (Close, possibly a bit too blue (I have a hard time deciding); text may be a little too light (over exposed).)
Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (AP: almost perfect; CP: close, possibly too brown.)
Line width (One of the lines used for dry time. Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 360µm, with twelve divisions of 30µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 360µm. With 214 inks measured, the average line width is 295µm.) (Not the fattest line, but definitely on the very wide end of the scale.)
Microscope image (100x. The software wouldn't pick up color or details, so this is my cell phone looking through the eyepiece.)
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