PR Orange Crush

[girlieg33k]

I wrote several of the pens in my last rotation dry and had to ink a few more this evening....so of course that means a few more mini-reviews.

 

The usual caveat: I scanned the mini-reviews so colors may vary depending on your monitor. I'm limited to posting 600pix wide images here, but click on the image or the link below it to view the full-size image. The full-size image may give a better, sharper representation of the color.

 

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[PAKMAN]

I tried really hard to like this ink but just couldn't!

[sam]

this is one ink i'm thinking of getting soon...

thx for the review

[Opus104]

A hint of brown perhaps? Thanks for the review. Was the smear due to slow drying or just a normal hiccup?

 

By the way, that looks like a pretty juicy fine nb.

[jmkeuning]

I dig it!

 

It might be coincidence, but I get more smearing with Orange Crush than other inks.

 

I feel like I wrote this recently, but I write it again. . . This orange does perhaps have some brown in it. But that is good in my case because it is slightly more respectable and does not raise as many eyebrows at the office.

[Opus104]

I know what you mean JMK - but just using my pens often raises eyebrows.

[DilettanteG]

Thanks for the great review!

 

Does this ink remind anyone else of Levenger's Fireball? It seems to have the same orange-red color and minimal shading of that ink.

[coco]

This is one of my favorite inks--I keep it all the time in my Delta Dolce Vita mini. I hadn't noticed it smearing more than other inks, but I've not made a point to test this (I tend to write a note with a fountain pen, go back to the laptop, back to fountain pen...ink typically dries in-between).

 

Thanks for the review.

[Shamouti]

I wrote several of the pens in my last rotation dry and had to ink a few more this evening....so of course that means a few more mini-reviews.

 

The usual caveat: I scanned the mini-reviews so colors may vary depending on your monitor. I'm limited to posting 600pix wide images here, but click on the image or the link below it to view the full-size image. The full-size image may give a better, sharper representation of the color.

 

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Hello,

 

I read your review on PR's Orange Crush and I was wondering, how do you post your pictures on FPN and make them so nice?

 

Is there some post you recommend to find out more information on posting pictures for reviews?

 

Seems to me that a lot of the postings have a lot to do with the software the user uses and the lighting. If you have particularly good lighting, the shading you get on the ink must change. I don't know. It's kind of confusing.

 

Do you have any good suggestions?

 

Thanks,

 

John (Shamouti)

[sofian]

Thanks for the review. Never having tried Orange Crush before, I was thinking of getting some. However, I was a bit apprehensive: I thought it would be closer to red than orange. But based on your scan, it appears to lean more towards brown; which is fine by me. Its is also a bonus when you reported that Orange crsuch has some shading properties despite its saturation.

 

I'm going out to get some.

[georges zaslavsky]

not enough legible for me. thanks for the review anyways.

[griffin2020]

The bottom of the page is very close to the look that I get from this ink. It is one of my favorites, and it usually stays in rotation.

 

It is more of a brownish orange (a bit pumkin pie-y to my eye) than a red orange. Great fall color, and perfect for those harvest time notes, messags and letters.

[Wino In Training]

One of my favourites too.... just too bad that it bleeds & feathers on Moleskine! Looks great on Rhodia out of an italic nib, soooo much shading.

[LedZepGirl]

Whenever I fill my pens with it it never looks so bright and clean! Wow! It always looks a muddy copper color, I thought it was the ink. I guess I'll really have to clean one of my pens really well before filling it with this.

 

I've noticed the slow drying as well, not a good ink to take notes with in class- I got it all over the desktop. :embarrassed_smile:

Edited April 5, 2008 by LedZepGirl

[jmkeuning]

I've noticed the slow drying as well, not a good ink to take notes with in class- I got it all over the desktop.

 

Mix it 50% with water. The color should not change, and it will dry fast. I do this with all my inks. I sometimes back the mix to 35-40% water but it really helps with the drying.

 

FWIW, PR makes super-saturated inks.

[LedZepGirl]

I've noticed the slow drying as well, not a good ink to take notes with in class- I got it all over the desktop.

 

Mix it 50% with water. The color should not change, and it will dry fast. I do this with all my inks. I sometimes back the mix to 35-40% water but it really helps with the drying.

 

FWIW, PR makes super-saturated inks.

 

 

I'll give that a try then fill one of my Esties with it because you can get those pens real clean, that'll take care of the nasty muddy colour.

[JDlugosz]

sorry, wrong thread.

Edited May 18, 2008 by JDlugosz

[QM2]

 

Wow, these scans of PR Orange Crush do not look very much like mine at all. Mine has an enormous degree of shading in all my pens, so that it almost looks like amber with specks in it. It goes from brown to bright orange to pumpkin all in one pen int he course of writing!

 

 

[CharlieB]

Wow, these scans of PR Orange Crush do not look very much like mine at all. Mine has an enormous degree of shading in all my pens, so that it almost looks like amber with specks in it. It goes from brown to bright orange to pumpkin all in one pen int he course of writing!

 

I agree. I had a bottle of PR Orange Crush, and it looked orange initially, but over time, it became mostly brown. Curiously, I had the same experience with PR Burgundy Mist and PR Fiesta Red: both became browner over time.

 

All of this was 3+ years ago, so the formulations of these inks may have improved in the interim.

[oldnavy1988]

I tried really hard to like this ink but just couldn't!

I feel exactly the same way. Not enough orange in the orange crush. More of a rust color, especially in a F nib.