Ink Review: Diamine Enkindle (Hong Kong Exclusive)

[Chrissy]

Diamine Enkindle is a Hong Kong exclusive ink. It’s an unsaturated, yellowish orange ink that has a lovely pink/golden shimmer and sheen. I recommend you should use a free flowing pen and coated or non-absorbent paper to see it’s sheen and shimmer at it’s best.

Enkindle flowed very well through my pens, was neither particularly dry nor wet, and felt well lubricated when writing across the page. I saw some nice shading and some sheen on Tomoe River and Maruman Mnemosyne papers. It’s saturated enough to be easily readable.

I didn’t notice any skips or hard starts when I put the uncapped pen down to do swab tests, dry times and water resistance. I didn’t see any feathering on the papers I wrote on.

Available only from LuFish Co. Hong Long via the Pinkoi platform in 80ml glass bottles that feature a pretty, specially designed label. I also found a seller on Etsy who sells it within the UK and he or she also sends to the US. The UK price seems to be between £25 and £30.

My sample was kindly provided by Diamine Inks for review purposes.

• Start-up: Immediate.
• Shading: Some nice shading seen.
• Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
• Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen.
• Staining (pen): Not seen after a week - easy clean-up.
• Staining (hands): Easily washed off of my hands.
• Clogging: Not seen.
• Water resistance: Not sold as waterproof and water resistance is low.

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[mizgeorge]

Thank you Chrissy for an excellent review.

I'm not normally a huge fan of ridiculously bright inks, but I love this one. I've really enjoyed all the HK specials, and this is no exception. I'm currently using it in a Pilot Parallel, and it really comes into its own with an ultra broad nib.

I'd highly recommend it if it weren't such a ridiculous price - but for a special occasion ink, I think it's worth it.

[Yazeh]

Great review @Chrissy. I see that you have changed your formant slightly. I really like it
Lamy Safari is such great pen for reviewing.
The ink, I'm not so sure, but I know of someone who would really love it
It seems this ink has quite a bit of ghosting and bleeding on the first three papers. That's surprising for Diamine

[Chrissy]

Thank you Chrissy for an excellent review.

I'm not normally a huge fan of ridiculously bright inks, but I love this one. I've really enjoyed all the HK specials, and this is no exception. I'm currently using it in a Pilot Parallel, and it really comes into its own with an ultra broad nib.

I'd highly recommend it if it weren't such a ridiculous price - but for a special occasion ink, I think it's worth it.

You're welcome . I really like it too but I'm not so sure I need any more orange inks.

[Chrissy]

Great review @Chrissy. I see that you have changed your formant slightly. I really like it
Lamy Safari is such great pen for reviewing.
The ink, I'm not so sure, but I know of someone who would really love it
It seems this ink has quite a bit of ghosting and bleeding on the first three papers. That's surprising for Diamine

You're welcome. I plagiarised the idea of swapping nibs on my Safari from dneal as I thought it was such a good idea especially as I often use a Safari or an Al-Star for my reviews.The show through and bleed through was a surprise on Clairefontaine Triomphe and Exacompta but the Eatons Eraseable Bond is a thin, onion style tissue paper and all inks I've tried show through on that.