What ink(s) are you waiting for in the mail?

[Just J]

1 hour ago, IanP2303 said:

...we could discuss this further if that is what you want.

 

Thanks, but no. I know quite a bit more about it, & other involvement, but here is not the time nor place. 

[IanP2303]

33 minutes ago, Just J said:

Thanks, but no. I know quite a bit more about it, & other involvement, but here is not the time nor place. 

Agreed, this is not a suitable place for this type of discussion.

 

Cheers,

Ian

[PithyProlix]

Parker Penman Mocha  for the equivalent of about $7 USD 

 

(and now I know what ink is going in the Parker 75 that arrived today)

[IlikeInksandIcannotlie]

15 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

Parker Penman Mocha  for the equivalent of about $7 USD 

 

(and now I know what ink is going in the Parker 75 that arrived today)

  Enjoy!

[Chi]

 

Can't say I was waiting for this but my kind roommate just got back from Japan.

And she bought me this ink! I am beyond excited!!!

 

[essayfaire]

13 hours ago, Chi said:

Can't say I was waiting for this but my kind roommate just got back from Japan.

And she bought me this ink! I am beyond excited!!!

Good roommate!  Enjoy!

[dragondazd]

I am very impatient for the new manyos to become available. I might get bottles of hinolki and a second undecided one, samples of the rest.

[mizgeorge]

25 minutes ago, dragondazd said:

I am very impatient for the new manyos to become available. I might get bottles of hinolki and a second undecided one, samples of the rest.

I can get hold of them, but I'm not going to be at home for a delivery for a while, which is infuriating!  I'm not even going to pretend that I won't be getting all of them...

[Misfit]

On 6/11/2022 at 4:29 PM, Just J said:

 

 

It's on the way. 📝🖌🖍✏🖊✒ 🎥   🚑

But first I gotta figure out how...🤔

I’d settle for a photo of pen, ink, and paper, with writing from the pen and ink on the paper. Write anything. 

[A Smug Dill]

I'm waiting on a whole lot of (gasp!) Noodler's Ink picked up from LCdC's clearance sales. Some more KWZ Ink too, although I already received a dozen bottles earlier. Oh, and some Krishna Inks. … Actually, I've lost track of what I've ordered but yet to receive!

 ⋮

OK, my spreadsheet of orders with LCdC took some updating, given I've placed another three orders in the span of four days. This is what to yet to be dispatched:

• 12 bottles of (various) Noodler's Ink
• 8 of (v) KWZ Ink
• 4 of (v) Krishna
• 4 of Waterman Serenity Blue
• 2 of Visconti Blue (in the top-heavy plastic bottles, not the new and pricier glass bottles)
• 2 of (v) Pelikan 4001
• 2 of (v) Sailor basic range
• 1 of Platinum Pigment Blue
• 3 of Rohrer & Klingner (2022 LE) Pine Green

Note: The highlighted items were not offered on clearance, and I was/am well aware they're not in stock at this point.

 

 

[Misfit]

@A Smug Dill Cool to see you have Visconti Blue in your order.  I really like that ink. It has some red sheen on paper that shows it off. It’s a really nice blue. 

[IlikeInksandIcannotlie]

The R&K Pine Green seems like an interesting colour.

[A Smug Dill]

9 minutes ago, Misfit said:

@A Smug Dill Cool to see you have Visconti Blue in your order.

 

I got those as order padding just to make the free international shipping threshold, hehe, and just in case Visconti decide to discontinue the cheaper retail product with the top-heavy plastic bottles, in favour of driving up the per-millilitre price and ‘forcing’ the new glass bottles onto customers.

 

12 minutes ago, Misfit said:

I really like that ink. It has some red sheen on paper that shows it off. It’s a really nice blue. 

 

Most well-regarded and oft-mentioned blue inks do as well, though. Waterman Serenity Blue, Monteverde Horizon Blue, Sailor Blue, … and even Pelikan 4001 Blue/Black has a reddish sheen. The Krishna inks I ordered, which are all blue, will definitely sheen red/pink. (I'm sure Platinum Pigment Blue doesn't, however.)

[Just J]

7 hours ago, Misfit said:

I'd settle for a photo of pen, ink, and paper, with writing from the pen and ink on the paper. Write anything. 

Okay, let me tell you where I'm at on this. First, there's a li'l problem I need to resolve before I can ink it up.  So, no writing jus-s-s-t yet. 

~8》 

Now, pix. I have been (still am!) practically mesmerized by the beauty of this pen. Moreso at how it changes with the light. The view angle, type of light, its strength, view perspective, background -- you can pan your vision along its length and practically soar thru its depths, each small twist producing a whole new series of chapters to get lost in!  Its something like cruising with your telescope thru the Orion Nebula with good filterage and magnification - a forever journey of wonder. SO robust, in trying to capture some of that to show, I took a LOT of photos. A Lot!! 

 

What I'm about to reveal, I think might've 'overdone' it a bit, but I picked thru the 'library' and from them selected multiple exampes that show some of this 'range', and with help of a newly discovered feature on my camera, strung together a series of images into a sort of 'movie' & uploaded it to th' Toob. Fearing maybe it's 'too much' -- maybe it's 'just me', I'd even asked someone [well known] here if she'd preview & critique for me before I revealed it here. However, at this moment the jury's [understandably] still out on that one. So, with that understanding, I ask your forebearance, and realizing this thread's about inks, not pens, but asked here so answered here, eh wot? 

 

Enough blathering - here she is; hit PLAY & tap 'Full Screen'! ::> https://youtu.be/FEouNiK4csg

[[ And I surely wouldn't mind comments - eager to see, in fact! ]]  

 

[Just J]

On 6/22/2022 at 10:11 PM, Misfit said:

I'd settle for a photo of pen, ink, and paper, with writing from the pen and ink on the paper. Write anything. 

 

... 

Annnnnnd........crickets. 

 

[Sinistral1]

@Just JYour new pen is beautiful from any angle!

[Just J]

Well, Thank You kind Sir. 

 

Oh, and....Visconti Blue [50], & ¿Black, for the unwell.  <:::Thank you, Mr. SpoilChucker -- I typed "inkwell".  

 

Funny, tho. 

 

[Just J]

I'll confess that my ordering the Visconti Blue was largely curiosity getting the better of me. 

 

I was rather shocked at the cavalier attitude expressed to me by one of our major P&I vendors [no names here] when I inquired about their decidedly poor representations of an ink's color in their catalog/webpage swatch.  What I questioned was, they show an almost completely-middle blue on the swatch, but the cap label (representing the content's color) resting alongside is a completely different shade - an almost tealish green-blue - which I like,  strongly.  I asked about the difference & which one represented the true color, on which I could base my decision to buy or pass. Their reply: "We use the swatches Visconti sends us." 

 

Odd that. Considering every swatch in every hue from every ink manufacturer you carry are displayed in your catalog in that little cookie-cutter identical birdy shape. No further info, nor explanation. Just 'We use what they send us', & we're supposed to be happy with taking a guess on what exactly we're buying?  

 

I replied "Then Visconti is doing you and your potential customers a strong disservice!"  And I ordered the damn stuff so's I can see it first hand. 

But of course, from another shop. 

 

[inkstainedruth]

12 hours ago, Just J said:

I'll confess that my ordering the Visconti Blue was largely curiosity getting the better of me. 

 

I was rather shocked at the cavalier attitude expressed to me by one of our major P&I vendors [no names here] when I inquired about their decidedly poor representations of an ink's color in their catalog/webpage swatch.  What I questioned was, they show an almost completely-middle blue on the swatch, but the cap label (representing the content's color) resting alongside is a completely different shade - an almost tealish green-blue - which I like,  strongly.  I asked about the difference & which one represented the true color, on which I could base my decision to buy or pass. Their reply: "We use the swatches Visconti sends us." 

 

Odd that. Considering every swatch in every hue from every ink manufacturer you carry are displayed in your catalog in that little cookie-cutter identical birdy shape. No further info, nor explanation. Just 'We use what they send us', & we're supposed to be happy with taking a guess on what exactly we're buying?  

 

I replied "Then Visconti is doing you and your potential customers a strong disservice!"  And I ordered the damn stuff so's I can see it first hand. 

But of course, from another shop. 

 

I don't like the venders using the pre-packaged swatches from manufacturers, any more than you do.  But....

You have to see it from the retailers' point of view.  Unless they sell samples (which is often a MUCH less expensive way to test an ink to see if you like the color and behavior than buying a full bottle), that swab you want, that writing sample to give a good overview of the color?  Those take time to do.  And if they DON'T sell samples, that means they have to make the swatch from either an EXTRA bottle they order for the occasion, OR they are opening a bottle and using some of the contents but then reselling the product as if new/unopened.  (Yes, if you end up buying both a sample vial and a full bottle, you pay more in the long run -- but I find that sample vials are GREAT mini inkwells for travel purposes so I'll then refill the sample vial with an eyedropper from the bottle just for such a purpose, rather than dragging full bottles around in a suitcase or my purse....)

A lot of the written exemplars are either dip-tested or used with a pen that is easy to clean (a glass pen or dip pen) -- and might not give a true rendition of the color either as how it will come out of YOUR pen (and which may run wetter or dryer than yours, and which might also have a different nib width from yours.  And using different paper(s) (another expense).  And I don't think you realize (being pretty new to the forum) just how much of a time sink doing swatches -- let alone comprehensive reviews -- can be.

And of course, on top of that, you may not get an accurate indication from your screen than from what a reviewer's or company employee's screen registers the colors as (there have been threads in the past about calibrating computer screens against grey scale cards, etc.).  Add to that the possibility that peoples' perceptions of the color might be different (either due to cultural differences -- aren't you the one posting about all the Innuit words for "snow"? -- or due to actual perception differences (such as various forms of color-blindness).

And there is also the possibility of differences between batches (some greater than others).  I used to work in a fabric store, years ago, and I had one customer who had pretty much EVERY bolt of "navy blue" fabric in the store out on the cutting table one time -- complaining that they weren't all the SAME color.  And wouldn't listen when I tried to explain about how there might be different dye lots AS WELL as how the different types of fiber (say, cotton vs. wool vs. polyester vs. silk) and how those different fibers might reflect light (i.e., matte surface vs. shiny).  It was a very frustrating experience, to say the least (and of course a store employee (not necessarily even me) would then have to reshop ALL those bolts to their correct sections (which meant that OTHER customers were not being helped, or could find the fabric THEY wanted, and we weren't paid for the time spent doing that after the store "officially" closed for the night, either...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Just J]

8 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

But....

You have to see it from the retailers' point of view.  

All due respects, ma'am, but you haven't told me a single thing I don't already know or know of. Our difference of perspective boils down to, the way I see it, the way the business owner chooses to run his/her business. There's too many who seem to think they basically set up a website & just sit back, apply minimal ongoing effort & the money's supposed to come pouring in. It's a store, not an oil well. 

 

Oh & btw -- I was in the textiles industry myself for 19 years. One of our divisions (where I was Office Mgr) was their 'Double & Fold' operation, putting our fabric onto those bolts you sold from! LOL 

Ever hear the name Texfi (for Textured Fibers)? Us.