Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Pilot Mixable Colour Red
This is review #306 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:
Post-recording notes: I'm taking this ink out of order because water was starting to evaporate out of the cartridge. I added a few drops of distilled water to top the cartridge off. I don't believe this has had a significant impact on color or performance. (And finally, we are done with the Mixable Colour cartridges!)
This is a bright red red (no hint of orange), darker from the EF nib than in the swatch. The microscope smear was dull as could be. The ink showed through the review page heavily, and bled through in one spot. The ink can look fuzzy at times, even on good paper.
I changed the lubrication rating after the review - lubrication seemed worse on the single sheet, whereas usually the pen does better that way.
I saw gold sheen under the microscope (looks orange in the image), so maybe on the right paper, with a very wet nib, this ink would have some sheen.
Cleaning was pretty easy with plain water, just concentrated. Despite seeing no hint of orange in the writing, when rinsing the section, it went to orangish red and then pink. I very much like the diluted version of this ink (~1 part water to 5 parts ink - color seems only a little lighter - still very red) in my CM nib - enough lubrication, nice bright red, no fuzzing on decent paper.
Zoomed in photo (One monitor shows too orange, the other too bright.)
Screenshot (This is quite close - text is a little too dark.)
Scan of Completed Review (This is closest to reality.)
Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Both show the ink a little brighter than reality.)
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 324µm. With 306 inks measured, the average line width is 297µm.) (You can see some gold sheen here (looks orange in the capture).)
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