EFNIR: Platinum Red

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Platinum Red

This is review #258 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: Cleaning was quick and easy.  This was a cartridge that came with a red Preppy. The ink is not really red.  It's more pink with some orange underneath or coral-y.  I included Diamine Peach Haze in the comparison not because they are similar in color, but because they are similar in transparent neony properties.... I don't actually have any ink similar to this color.

The scanner hates this color.  It removed all hint of orange or red and made the ink magenta.  The ink is more a coral color, something like #FF5757.  The microscope, on the other hand, did a pretty good job - when dense, it's red, otherwise it's pink, and bits of orange pop up here and there.

I rated sheen "low" not because there's only a little, but because you don't really see it - even on TR, you have to look for it.  The dry time, line width, and line width microscope image all seem to me to support the idea that this ink is dry.

Errata: "the hissed in unison." should be "they hissed in unison."

Zoomed in photo (Shading is exaggerated. The color isn't too bad - I think this is the most accurate representation of what I see.)

Screenshot (Depending on the screen, it's too orange or too pink. Cameras hate this color. It's got an orange undertone, but shows mostly pinkish, but a little coral-y. Just get a sample! :))

Scan of Completed Review (I had to tweak this image massively. Heaven knows how awful it may look on other screens. It was pure magenta when I started.  Now it's too orange, but that's as close as I can make it.  But it's still not the right color.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (The absorbent paper is too neon, the copy paper is too orange. (Found it hard to focus on this ink.))

Line width (One of the lines used for dry time. 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 276µm. With 258 inks measured, the average line width is 295µm.)

Microscope image (400x. This is pretty close to the colors I saw.  The yellow-orange colors were more vibrant and the white areas were actually pink.)

Microscope image (100x. This is a happy ink! (I'm sure those are happy tear-streaks under its eyes.))

Other (This is on Tomoe River 52gsm (original) paper.)

Previous Review: Noodler's Kiowa Pecan.

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[InesF]

Thank you, @LizEF, for inktroducing this happy-microscope-dedicated ink to us, together with the story part that smells already like a big-surprise-is-waiting- for-us.

While this red seems to be not much different from many other basic red inks (such as Pelikan 4001 Red), it convinces with its behavior when drying on microscopy slides.  

 

I almost can't wait for the next episode of our hero story!

(may I ask you to release it earlier?  )

[LizEF]

36 minutes ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @LizEF, for inktroducing this happy-microscope-dedicated ink to us, together with the story part that smells already like a big-surprise-is-waiting- for-us.

  You're very welcome!

 

36 minutes ago, InesF said:

While this red seems to be not much different from many other basic red inks (such as Pelikan 4001 Red), it convinces with its behavior when drying on microscopy slides.  

I don't know about the Pelikan, but it's a lot pinker than Waterman Audacious Red, for example.  In fact, in person, this ink really looks like a reddish pink rather than red.

 

37 minutes ago, InesF said:

I almost can't wait for the next episode of our hero story!

 

38 minutes ago, InesF said:

(may I ask you to release it earlier?  )

  Maybe I should set up a Patreon account - folks could subscribe and get the story a week or two early...  Don't worry, next week we learn the surprise, though the climax doesn't end there.

[yazeh]

Another excellent review @LizEF 

I especially enjoyed the maple leaf hidden in the microscopic slide but I'm sick and tired of all these masquerading reds  

I caught another erratum, so now you have an errata

I find nothing more sad than when the measure of a story is proper syntax and grammar. No mud, not lotus

I'm looking forward to the great reveal next week, when our Tuesdays will be brighter 🙏

 

 

[LizEF]

14 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Another excellent review @LizEF 

Thank you!

 

14 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I especially enjoyed the maple leaf hidden in the microscopic slide but I'm sick and tired of all these masquerading reds  

I didn't notice the leaf shape before.  And yeah, I do tend to prefer dark reds like Diamine Red Dragon.

 

16 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I caught another erratum, so now you have an errata

What, that the ink is called "red"?  Or that I used "errata" instead of "erratum"?  Or did I miss something else?

 

18 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I find nothing more sad than when the measure of a story is proper syntax and grammar. No mud, not lotus

  Well, ya know, I can't refrain - it's the editor in me, I guess...

 

19 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I'm looking forward to the great reveal next week, when our Tuesdays will be brighter 🙏

[Sailor Kenshin]

Lucky for me I have this ink (as well as its compatriots) and I may try digging it out again, if only to experience the SHEEN.  I do recall liking the color.

 

Our story grows more exciting, while pterodactyl wings flap and groaning autumn leaves charge.  But who are they rushing to assist—-our Dream Team, or the enemy?  It is imperative to stay tuned!

 

@LizEF

 

Thanks so much for the Tuesday Treat!  …. and did someone mention CAVES? 🙀

 

[LizEF]

23 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Lucky for me I have this ink (as well as its compatriots) and I may try digging it out again, if only to experience the SHEEN.  I do recall liking the color.

Hope it sheens for you like it did for me.

 

24 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Our story grows more exciting, while pterodactyl wings flap and groaning autumn leaves charge.  But who are they rushing to assist—-our Dream Team, or the enemy?  It is imperative to stay tuned!

 

25 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

@LizEF

 

Thanks so much for the Tuesday Treat!  …. and did someone mention CAVES? 🙀

You're most welcome.  (The cave quote was as close as I could find to our heroes' location and situation...)

[Penguincollector]

  I’m so invested! What a nail biter!

  I also really enjoy the sheen on the Platinum cartridges that I have tried so far. I haven’t gotten to the red yet, but this makes me excited to try it soon! I have heard it said that the inks for these cartridges is the same as the Platinum Mix-Free bottled ink and am curious to see if that is really the case. My poor Jetpens cart is starting to stagger with the weight of its contents.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

I’m so invested! What a nail biter!

  Thank you!

 

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

I also really enjoy the sheen on the Platinum cartridges that I have tried so far. I haven’t gotten to the red yet, but this makes me excited to try it soon! I have heard it said that the inks for these cartridges is the same as the Platinum Mix-Free bottled ink and am curious to see if that is really the case.

  I don't know if they're the same or not.  I got this cartridge with a red Platinum Preppy.

 

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

My poor Jetpens cart is starting to stagger with the weight of its contents.

  So many pens, papers, and inks, so little money...   (And storage space!)

[Penguincollector]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

And storage space!)

This über alles.

[LizEF]

4 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

This über alles.

[Spouse comes home to find the couch replaced by storage cabinets.] "Um, honey, what's going on?"

 

"I needed more room for storage.  It was either you or the couch, and I love you more, so the couch had to go."

 

[Spouse is left speechless and wondering how much the therapist will cost.]

[knarflj]

I don't think I need this ink, but I love the microscope images.

 

And I will be eagerly awaiting next week's instalment of the story!  Thank you so much for  keeping Tuesdays interesting.

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, LizEF said:

[Spouse comes home to find the couch replaced by storage cabinets.] "Um, honey, what's going on?"

 

"I needed more room for storage.  It was either you or the couch, and I love you more, so the couch had to go."

 

[Spouse is left speechless and wondering how much the therapist will cost.]

 I whooped with laughter 😂 

[LizEF]

12 minutes ago, knarflj said:

I don't think I need this ink, but I love the microscope images.

 

12 minutes ago, knarflj said:

And I will be eagerly awaiting next week's instalment of the story!

Thank you!

 

12 minutes ago, knarflj said:

Thank you so much for  keeping Tuesdays interesting.

You're very welcome!

[LizEF]

Just now, Penguincollector said:

 I whooped with laughter 😂 

[Doc Dan]

Thanks for the review and pictures. That 400X picture looks like a 1970 to 1971 psychedelic fantasy drawing, perhaps from a Uriah Heep album cover. 

[LizEF]

35 minutes ago, Doc Dan said:

Thanks for the review and pictures. That 400X picture looks like a 1970 to 1971 psychedelic fantasy drawing, perhaps from a Uriah Heep album cover. 

  You're very welcome!  Some inks very definitely have a "psychedelic" appearance.

[inkstainedruth]

7 hours ago, LizEF said:

[Spouse comes home to find the couch replaced by storage cabinets.] "Um, honey, what's going on?"

 

"I needed more room for storage.  It was either you or the couch, and I love you more, so the couch had to go."

 

[Spouse is left speechless and wondering how much the therapist will cost.]

I just read this to my husband....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA:  Of course, I'm now thinking of the antique dental cabinet I bought just as the world went into COVID lockdown, which is taking up the wall space in the bedroom between the where the door swings into the room and the laundry hamper, and the door to the closet....   Maybe next year I'll have time to figure out the best way to refinish the metal interiors of the drawers....

[LizEF]

37 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

I just read this to my husband....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA:  Of course, I'm now thinking of the antique dental cabinet I bought just as the world went into COVID lockdown, which is taking up the wall space in the bedroom between the where the door swings into the room and the laundry hamper, and the door to the closet....   Maybe next year I'll have time to figure out the best way to refinish the metal interiors of the drawers....

  Good luck with your refinishing project!

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks.  

Sadly, I've had the thing almost 3 years now, and all that's happened is that I bought new knobs for it.  I haven't even been able to find the size & length of the screws to run through the doors and door fronts for the knobs, and may also need washers at least on some of the drawers or upper section doors to make the knobs fit.  (This past summer I didn't have the time, and the summer before that it was too hot and humid for me to want to deal with figuring out to take the drawers out and try to spray paint the interiors on the front porch or in the driveway -- or do much of anything ELSE outside; and I haven't been able to have a friend from Ohio (who used to do antiques restoration professionally, and is now an appraiser) come to Pittsburgh for me to pick her brain on the best way to do the work (she was supposed to be coming to some area antiques show a while back but we never heard from her to confirm whether she was driving east or not...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth