Ink Review: Diamine A Night in Jodhpur Exclusive to Papier & Stift, Germany

[Chrissy]

Today I'm reviewing Diamine A Night in Jodhpur ink.

Diamine A Night in Jodhpur is a Diamine Exclusive ink made specially for Papier & Stift in Germany.

This is a saturated dark sky blue/turquoise type colour with dark pinkish red sheen. It doesn’t have such a heavy sheen as the Organics Studio very high sheen inks, nor KWZ Sheen Machine, but has more sheen than a “standard” ink.
It didn’t suffer from any hard starts or non-starts when I put the uncapped pen down to do swab tests, dry times and water resistance.

I found no start-up problems after leaving the pen overnight.
It dried quite quickly and once dry it didn’t smudge or smear.

I noticed there was a tendency for the ink to stick in the top of the converter when I turned the pen nib up. It may only be because Lamy converters have no agitator inside, but it was something I checked before starting to write.

I really enjoyed writing with it. It reminds me of another favourite Diamine Exclusive ink: Jalur Gemilang from Malaysia. A Night in Jodhpur is a little darker than Jalur Gemilang.
I saw a bit of showthrough and bleedthrough even on my 100gsm smooth coated paper, but I could still have written on the reverse of all of the papers I used.

Sheen is usually more visible when using pens with good flow and broader nibs on smooth papers where it doesn’t soak in immediately.

• Flow Rate: Good.
• Lubrication: Good.
• Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
• Start-up: Immediate.
• Saturation: Saturated ink.
• Shading Potential: Some shading.
• Sheen: Dark pinkish red sheen
• Show-Through:
  
  • Clairefontaine Matris
  • Hobonichi Techo.
  • Rhodia DotPad.
  • Tomoe River 52gsm.
  • Tomoe River 68gsm.
  • Whitelines.

• Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Not seen.
• Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen.
• Staining (pen): Not seen after several days in the pen. Easy clean-up with warm soapy water.
• Staining (hands): Clean after one wash.
• Clogging: Not seen. Seems unlikely.
• Water resistance: Not sold as waterproof and has no water resistance.
• Availability: Exclusively available from Papier & Stift, Germany.

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