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I've been reviewing a few Diamine sheening inks (Diamine Hells Bells/ Master of Puppets [to be posted]). I've noticed: 1) That on super sheen/shading provoking papers: Midori/ Tomoe River 68gsm, sheen is minimal with natural light (unless ink is laid thickly). 2) On Rhodia and even Iroful sheen is invisible However with artificial LED light, the same page is a kaleidoscope of colours to the point that it's almost distracting on the above Japanese papers, especially Iroful ( I feel like a cat with a laser beam :D) ) and on Rhodia sheen is visible only on the generously written line. (in my case flex nib) If memory serves me right, with Organics Studios super-sheening inks (for ex. Nitrogen) sheen was even visible on crappy paper. My empirical conclusion, with medium sheening inks: 1) If you want to have sheen use Japanese paper (Iroful, Tomoe River, Midori, etc). Iroful even makes some non-sheening inks sheen under artificial light. 2) Use wet/ gushing pens, with M, B or flex nibs. 3) Work under artificial light, for maximum iridescence. Does this conclusion correspond to anyone's experience?