Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Pilot Mixable Colour Sepia
This is review #222 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:
Post-recording notes: Cleaning was quite simple, but required an extra flush or two - lots of dye in there. I have no other brown this dark. In some lights, it seems almost to have a purple undertone, in other light, it's more a red-brown, and at other times, it just looks brown. It's quite the chameleon. It's also poorly-behaved - it even fuzzed a tiny bit on Rhodia - but it never bled.
I didn't notice it until after I'd recorded the review, but there is significant green sheen on Tomoe River paper - it's just that you have to hold it at an angle to the light to see it - perhaps because of how dark the ink is.
I plan to dilute the rest of the cartridge and install it in a Prera with a CM (stub) nib. If it's interesting, I'll add a photo for what it looks like, and perhaps more comments. (Green sheen is still there after diluting.)
Zoomed in photo (Too dark by a little, but mostly just not showing brown.)
Screenshot (Text a little too dark)
Scan of Completed Review (I can't decide whether the text is too dark or not - it seems awfully close.)
Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (AP: Color is quite close, and the best idea of the actual color of all the images; CP: text a little too dark)
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 312µm. With 222 inks measured, the average line width is 295µm.)
Microscope image (The edges (and sometimes all) of the white areas inside the ink should be pink, but I couldn't get the picture to show that without making the rest too dark. Otherwise, color is quite accurate.)
Other (Scan of the diluted ink. Color matches what my eyes see.)
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