EFNIR: Jinhao Deep Blue

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Jinhao Deep Blue

This is review #318 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: Added a tiny bit of water.  This is my kind of color. The microscope slide was boring (one lonely but lovely dye).

Cleaning was very quick and easy.

Zoomed in photo (This is very close to what my eyes see, maybe a little greyer.)

Screenshot (Color's a little dark and flat.)

Scan of Completed Review (This is also very close. It and the zoom are the best for color.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (Both are close to what I see.)

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 312µm. With 318 inks measured, the average line width is 297µm.)

Previous Review: Jinhao Green Bamboo.

Images also available on Instagram: @zilxodarap.

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

[lapis]

Nice! Now this is nothing exciting (from me) but something I love... a blue so dark that I can't help asking (within a second)... "Is that a blue-black or simply a very dark blue"? 

[LizEF]

36 minutes ago, lapis said:

Nice! Now this is nothing exciting (from me) but something I love... a blue so dark that I can't help asking (within a second)... "Is that a blue-black or simply a very dark blue"? 

I think it's just a dark blue, but it's lovely all the same.

[yazeh]

Excellent last review of the year @LizEF  The colour is very soothing and pleasing

Hopefully it's the last of the cartridges

Quin lying to Makhabesh, that's a new one; and no Essri caught in his "feathers"? Essri: "He'th hiding thomthing"  

 

Looking forward to "careening" into 2025, new adventures, inks and other fun things 🙏🙏🙏

[LizEF]

Just now, yazeh said:

Excellent last review of the year @LizEF 

Thanks!

 

Just now, yazeh said:

The colour is very soothing and pleasing

Right?  This is the gem of the 7 Jinhao colors I reviewed (despite the long dry time and wide line width).

 

1 minute ago, yazeh said:

Hopefully it's the last of the cartridges

Nope.  I'm on the last cartridge now (will record it today), so you guys have 4 more cartridge-ink-reviews to see!

 

1 minute ago, yazeh said:

Quin lying to Makhabesh, that's a new one; and no Essri caught in his "feathers"? Essri: "He'th hiding thomthing"  

Family secrets, man.  They're destructive...

 

2 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Looking forward to "careening" into 2025, new adventures, inks and other fun things 🙏🙏🙏

  Me, too!  I predict an interesting year!  (Which is not necessarily a good thing, but it is interesting. )

[Sailor Kenshin]

My kind of ink too, @LizEF!  I might have JDB in a cart. I love shading inks that clean fast, unlike supersaturated types (don't ask!).  I also have your comparison ink, Diamine Denim.  It's okay.

 

 Thanks for making each Tuesday magically fun... I always look forward to the review and story. 

 

Background beeps, moans 'n' groans notwithstanding, I wish you a merry NYE, and a happy New Year.  See ya next year! 

[LizEF]

11 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

My kind of ink too, @LizEF!  I might have JDB in a cart. I love shading inks that clean fast, unlike supersaturated types (don't ask!).  I also have your comparison ink, Diamine Denim.  It's okay.

  (Except the dry time.   )

 

12 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks for making each Tuesday magically fun... I always look forward to the review and story. 

You're most welcome!

 

12 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Background beeps, moans 'n' groans notwithstanding, I wish you a merry NYE, and a happy New Year.  See ya next year! 

  A very happy New Year to you, too!

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

Nope.  I'm on the last cartridge now (will record it today), so you guys have 4 more cartridge-ink-reviews to see!

And this was how, Smoke the prankster, ordered many other cartridges to his Moma's address  

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

 

Family secrets, man.  They're destructive...

So common, sometimes necessary to survive and yes so destructive  

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

 

  Me, too!  I predict an interesting year!  (Which is not necessarily a good thing, but it is interesting. )

[LizEF]

2 minutes ago, yazeh said:

And this was how, Smoke the prankster, ordered many other cartridges to his Moma's address  

By some fluke, Smoke playing on the keyboard results in ink cartridge orders mysteriously appearing at my door and unexpected charges on my credit card!

 

3 minutes ago, yazeh said:

So common, sometimes necessary to survive and yes so destructive  

Thankfully, this is fiction, so there's still hope it will all work out in the end.

 

[InesF]

Just recently, I committed to Waterman Mysterious Blue, which is much better domesticated than Jinhao Deep Blue seems to be.  

 

Thank you, @LizEF, for doing ink reviews when we all are focussing on party, on New Year's Eve (=Sylvester  ) and maybe we are reflecting our activities during the year! 

 

And, as always, looking forward to the upcoming adventures of our magical fellowship!  

(I feel great thing coming ...  )

 

All the best for you for 2025! 🎉

[LizEF]

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Just recently, I committed to Waterman Mysterious Blue, which is much better domesticated than Jinhao Deep Blue seems to be.  

When, if forced to be honest, the Jinhao isn't very well domesticated.  And frankly, if any of my pens made Waterman Mysterious Blue look as it does from your pen, I'd like it a lot better!

 

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @LizEF, for doing ink reviews when we all are focussing on party, on New Year's Eve (=Sylvester  ) and maybe we are reflecting our activities during the year! 

You're most welcome!  (And I still feel like I'm missing something about Sylvester - what does he have to do with NYE?)

 

5 hours ago, InesF said:

And, as always, looking forward to the upcoming adventures of our magical fellowship!  

(I feel great thing coming ...  )

  Thank you!

 

5 hours ago, InesF said:

All the best for you for 2025! 🎉

And to you, as well!

[yazeh]

56 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

You're most welcome!  (And I still feel like I'm missing something about Sylvester - what does he have to do with NYE?)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sylvester's_Day

 

@InesF do you practice Glücksschwein? :🐽 😄

[LizEF]

8 minutes ago, yazeh said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sylvester's_Day

Thank you!  (First I've heard of it.  Mystery solved.  Call me an uneducated American, but the term is almost universally redundant, so you could just call me an American...)

[yazeh]

2 hours ago, LizEF said:

Thank you!  (First I've heard of it.  Mystery solved.  Call me an uneducated American, but the term is almost universally redundant, so you could just call me an American...)

Don't worry, there are many things I haven't heard of, and I'm supposedly an "educated" un-American

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Don't worry, there are many things I haven't heard of, and I'm supposedly an "educated" un-American

[InesF]

16 hours ago, yazeh said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sylvester's_Day

Thank you for the reference!

 

<deeply true fairy tale about cultural exchange>

Here comes Prof. Eenness: 🧑‍🎓

Please sit down, @yazeh and @LizEF, take a sheet of paper, your name on top right and note:

Silvester (the word "Sylvester" brutally bent into German language) is how we call December 31^st evening. New Year (with or without "Eve") is reserved for January 1^st (from 0:⁰⁰ midnight to 24:⁰⁰ midnight) and we all (at least, I hope it is so) are sitting at 11am either in the Vienna Musikvereinssaal or at home in front of TV or Radio and listening to the Vienna Philharmonics New Years Concert! Life is at a stand-still at this time. It is like mass hypnosis. As an Austrian you can't avoid that!    If you ask an Austrian for New Year's Eve, nothing special will happen. At January 1^st evening, the New Years Concert is long over and there is nothing more to celebrate than maybe go to bed early to catch up for missed sleep at Silvester.

</deeply true fairy tale about cultural exchange>

(OK, I had a lot of fun doing this, please laugh with me)

(And, I didn't know that the name derived from a former pope - thank you!)

 

13 hours ago, yazeh said:

Don't worry, there are many things I haven't heard of, and I'm supposedly an "educated" un-American

And again:

Ich sei, gewährt mit die Bitte; in eurem Bunde die Dritte!

 

16 hours ago, yazeh said:

@InesF do you practice Glücksschwein? :🐽 😄

Hmmm, that's a thing of the past, of the far past! This Wiki article must had been written before 1900 😯  . But what is still done is wishing "A Good New Year" and gifting your friends (and neighbours) some small items in the shape of cloverleaf ☘️, chimney sweeper, mushrooms 🍄or pigs 🐖. The last one is, indeed, called Glücksschwein!  The items are preferably made from chocolate or marzipan.  👌

[A Smug Dill]

2 minutes ago, InesF said:

The items are preferably made from chocolate or marzipan.  👌

 

Chocolate pigs? Marzipan pigs? Those are such… outlandish concepts to this ex-HongKong Australian.

[InesF]

2 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

Chocolate pigs? Marzipan pigs? Those are such… outlandish concepts to this ex-HongKong Australian.

[yazeh]

3 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you for the reference!

3 hours ago, InesF said:

 

<deeply true fairy tale about cultural exchange>

Here comes Prof. Eenness: 🧑‍🎓

Please sit down, @yazeh and @LizEF, take a sheet of paper, your name on top right and note:

Silvester (the word "Sylvester" brutally bent into German language) is how we call December 31^st evening.

It's the same in France, only with a y.  

3 hours ago, InesF said:

 

New Year (with or without "Eve") is reserved for January 1^st (from 0:⁰⁰ midnight to 24:⁰⁰ midnight) and we all (at least, I hope it is so) are sitting at 11am either in the Vienna Musikvereinssaal or at home in front of TV or Radio and listening to the Vienna Philharmonics New Years Concert! Life is at a stand-still at this time. It is like mass hypnosis. As an Austrian you can't avoid that!    If you ask an Austrian for New Year's Eve, nothing special will happen. At January 1^st evening, the New Years Concert is long over and there is nothing more to celebrate than maybe go to bed early to catch up for missed sleep at Silvester.

I remember watching a few of those concerts in my younger years.  I don't enjoy the big pop concert style, they seem too noisy and everyone I shouting, pretending to be excited.  I'm sometimes jealous of my cat. For her, everyday is the same

3 hours ago, InesF said:

</deeply true fairy tale about cultural exchange>

(OK, I had a lot of fun doing this, please laugh with me)

(And, I didn't know that the name derived from a former pope - thank you!)

I hope you didn't think it was related to Sylvester Stallone or the other one:

3 hours ago, InesF said:

 

And again:

Ich sei, gewährt mit die Bitte; in eurem Bunde die Dritte!

🙏

3 hours ago, InesF said:

 

Hmmm, that's a thing of the past, of the far past! This Wiki article must had been written before 1900 😯  .

I thought so

3 hours ago, InesF said:

 

But what is still done is wishing "A Good New Year" and gifting your friends (and neighbours) some small items in the shape of cloverleaf ☘️, chimney sweeper, mushrooms 🍄or pigs 🐖. The last one is, indeed, called Glücksschwein!  The items are preferably made from chocolate or marzipan.  👌

Marzipan and dark chocolate. Danke  

[LizEF]

6 hours ago, InesF said:

(from 0:⁰⁰ midnight to 24:⁰⁰ midnight)

Have a seat, Professor, and get out a sheet of paper.  The day starts at 00:00:00.000 and ends at 23:59:59.999.  Ask any computer programmer or database developer.   There is no such thing as 24:00!  If there were such a thing, it would be equivalent to 00:00 on the next day.  That is 24:00 Monday would equal 00:00 Tuesday.  This is absurd since Monday and Tuesday do not overlap.  (The last project I did before leaving my programming job was to redesign the entire LIMS system to be usable across all timezones and all DST rules in the world.  Boy howdy do I know time rules and detest DST.  Also, for the record, the entire world should just switch to using UTC and get over themselves.  For those who don't know: "LIMS" is short for "Laboratory Information Management System".)

 

 

Anyone who insists that 24:00 exists will be required to write out the minutes from 00:00 to 23:59, while watching a digital, 24-hour clock tick over the minutes - no other activity will be allowed all day long.  Failure will result in having to do it second by second! Persisted failure will require you to repeat the exercise on the day DST starts (where the clock goes from 01:59:59.999 to 03:00:00.000) and again on the day DST ends (when the clock goes from 01:59:59.999 to 01:00:00.000 ).