EFNIR: Organics Studio Nitrogen

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Organics Studio Nitrogen

This is review #305 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:


Post-recording notes: This ink was gifted to me by a generous FPNer. This is a blue ink. It leans slightly green. My scanner doesn't like it. My camera doesn't like it. Both want to remove the green, probably because the ink + sheen leans purple and is darker than the ink without sheen... Still, I think the scanner is closest.

Cleaning was surprisingly easy, but will require extra flushes due to how concentrated it is. I only needed water. (Note, however, that cleaning will result in the same problems as inking - see next...)

This ink is a super-sheener, which means it forms flakes that are like a cross between glitter, Baystate Blue, and the worst virus known to man. In a hundred years, when someone is demolishing my home, they will be heard to say, "What are these blue spots all over my gloves and boots!?" (This is the price you pay for using a super-sheener: invisible flakes that go places neither you nor the ink bottle, nor the pen, has ever been, and re-wet months after you've forgotten you ever used the ink.)

I know sheening inks have a reputation for smearing long after "dry", but I haven't had that problem - perhaps because of the EF and not-so-wet nib, perhaps because I'm in a desert and my skin is bone-dry...

Zoomed in photo (Not quite enough green, maybe a little too dark.)


Screenshot (Text a little too dark and not enough green.)


Scan of Completed Review (I think I managed to get this fairly close to the actual color, but the scan doesn't include the sheen, so it's hard to be sure...)


Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Both sides are off, but in different ways. :/)


Line width (The "I" in "Ink:". 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 292µm. With 305 inks measured, the average line width is 297µm.) (You can see the sheen.)


Microscope image (100x. This was as interesting as it got. Color is wrong. The turquoise halos should be more blue, the darker parts a little more teal (but not teal, just more green).)


Sheen (Lots o' sheen.)


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[Sailor Kenshin]

There's an explosion! Let's hope it's a good one for Quin and company. The other slide resembles a glittered Christmas tree needle up close. And the angled version looks pinkish plum.

Liz, I MAY have had a sample of Nitrogen. I don't have any of your comparisons, but one of my InkVents had a blue with massive red sheen (Ruby Blues?) and it did not seem to flake. InkVent Black Ivy, ditto. Flakes would annoy me.

I'm breathless to see where this cliffhanger goes. Thanks so much for this Tuesday Treat.

[LizEF]

There's an explosion! Let's hope it's a good one for Quin and company.

An underwater explosion.

The other slide resembles a glittered Christmas tree needle up close. And the angled version looks pinkish plum.

Not sure I've ever seen a glittered Christmas tree needle. Pretty sure I don't want to. Sounds like your house would never be free of glitter again after letting such a tree near it. The sheen color seems to change with the lighting - a little - which isn't surprising.

Liz, I MAY have had a sample of Nitrogen.

If you did, you still do, somewhere, waiting to be re-wetted!

I don't have any of your comparisons, but one of my InkVents had a blue with massive red sheen (Ruby Blues?) and it did not seem to flake. InkVent Black Ivy, ditto. Flakes would annoy me.

Flakes are "the gift that keeps on giving". I "discovered" a blue spot near my ink cabinet three weeks after I finished this review! Heaven knows when I'll find another - probably on the kitchen floor somewhere... No matter how careful you are, the flakes still seem to spread.

I'm breathless to see where this cliffhanger goes. Thanks so much for this Tuesday Treat.

You're most welcome!

[Yazeh]

Thank you for such a fascinating review
You enumerated all the reasons why I don't like maxi-sheen inks. Their too much pain in the feed and too distracting

I really liked how you tied the "blood" quote. Though I'm a weary of blood is thicker stuff that whatnot. I get it if there were hoards of green blooded Vulcans, and Klingons and Blue blooded Andorians in our midst. Though the way the world is going on these days, it feels we're stuck in a war with the Dominion, where everyone is the enemy

But back to the fun review, I'm impressed how you managed to actually capture the colour. If memory serves me right, I could not discern any colour with the super- sheening Organics studio ink, which was quite a disturbing experience. I think my favorite sheen is on Klaw's coat

I love how you captured gold sheens flakes in the line measurement photo and the microscopic image, has an otherworldly character, which I like.

Thanks @Lizef, for doing this review, reminding me of the first baby steps of my fountain pen journey

[LizEF]

Thank you for such a fascinating review
You enumerated all the reasons why I don't like maxi-sheen inks. Their too much pain in the feed and too distracting

Yes, they have their costs, and as far as I can tell, if you want this level of sheen, you really have no choice - you must pay the cost.

I really liked how you tied the "blood" quote. Though I'm a weary of blood is thicker stuff that whatnot. I get it if there were hoards of green blooded Vulcans, and Klingons and Blue blooded Andorians in our midst. Though the way the world is going on these days, it feels we're stuck in a war with the Dominion, where everyone is the enemy

Thanks! Some of the quotes coming up tied well into the story line. It seems more like a civil war (or an uncivil war), but yeah, let's not go there.

But back to the fun review, I'm impressed how you managed to actually capture the colour. If memory serves me right, I could not discern any colour with the super- sheening Organics studio ink, which was quite a disturbing experience.

That's one thing about this fine a nib (or I suppose it's really about the dryness) - the sheen doesn't completely overwhelm. It also helps that I have a directly overhead camera position and lighting around three sides - sheen really needs angles to show.

I think my favorite sheen is on Klaw's coat

Well said! Hard to beat the sheen on a kitty cat's coat. Smoke's coat is not as shiny or smooth. I don't know if it's just different hair types, a health issue, grooming habits or what. Brushing does help a lot, though, and he doesn't argue with me if I insist. (Klaw won't take that. I have to wait until Klaw's willing before I can brush him.)

I love how you captured gold sheens flakes in the line measurement photo and the microscopic image, has an otherworldly character, which I like.

I don't see gold, just pink, but maybe different screens play with the color (like that black vs blue dress).

Thanks @Lizef, for doing this review, reminding me of the first baby steps of my fountain pen journey

You're most welcome! I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say I'm glad you took those first steps!

[TSherbs]

Thanks for the review. This ink has had too much sheen for me (at times, can't even see any blue at all).

[LizEF]

Thanks for the review. This ink has had too much sheen for me (at times, can't even see any blue at all).

You're most welcome! Definitely, in a pen that's even a little wet, and with lighting at anything like an angle, you'll see nothing but sheen. That annoys me, too. I believe it can be remedied by a little bit of dilution, but I haven't tested that theory.

[Yazeh]

Well said! Hard to beat the sheen on a kitty cat's coat. Smoke's coat is not as shiny or smooth. I don't know if it's just different hair types, a health issue, grooming habits or what. Brushing does help a lot, though, and he doesn't argue with me if I insist. (Klaw won't take that. I have to wait until Klaw's willing before I can brush him.)

Nothing is like a healthy diet, to make a Kitty's coat happy Our cat will take a brushing every other day, if she could get away with it Give Klaw, a treat or two after a "hairdo", if you're not doing already

I love how you captured gold sheens flakes in the line measurement photo and the microscopic image, has an otherworldly character, which I like.

I don't see gold, just pink, but maybe different screens play with the color (like that black vs blue dress).

Actually, I miswrote. I see sort of a copper-ish color