Levenger Gemstone Green

[JDlugosz]

Below is a comparison of writing with the regular and the scratchy dry pen:

 

 

Here is a close-up of the writing from the Hero Gold, so you can see the flooding and feathering:

 

 

Here is another green for comparison, and what this pen "normally" writes like. Notice the lines are much finer:

 

 

Here is what happens when I rinse a well-dried sheet in the kitchen sink. Some ink washes out or through to the other side, but even under running water the words remain visible, as opposed to simply washing out completely.

 

 

About the scans:

This is indeed a color that will not show up on your sRGB monitor, no matter how well adjusted! A professional graphics CRT can do it, though. To aid in color perception, the scans have a thin white border around the paper and then a thick 50% gray matte. This should be perfectly colorless, and judge the greenness relative to that. The scans are all calibrated true color and exposure and saved with Adobe RGB color space. The HP Premium Laser 32# paper overexposes slightly in Adobe RGB, being "98 brightness", when the ink color is exposed exactly correctly. It does not affect the appearance of the image, but the overall appearance is more like you see in sunlight (the paper is a little red deficient so looks bluish) rather than under artificial light.

 

edited by moderator as requested--ink name correction

Edited May 20, 2008 by Ann Finley

[Limerick]

Thank you for the large scans and the information provided! It astonishes me to see how much this ink feathers. Even Sherwood Green Fast Dry does not feather equally!

[Titivillus]

Thank you for the large scans and the information provided! It astonishes me to see how much this ink feathers. Even Sherwood Green Fast Dry does not feather equally!

 

 

I got some of their brown cartridges and thought the ink flow was a little fast in the pen causing the feather but now maybe not....

 

 

K

[JDlugosz]

Correction: The ink is actually sold as "Gemstone", not "Emerald". It was labeled wrong in the Ink Exchange list and vial. But Emerald is a synonym for "Green Gem", so no big deal for me -- everyone agreed that the color I showed off was Emerald. But for indexing the ink reviews and finding the bottle to buy, note the correct name.

 

--John

 

Perhaps a moderator can rename this thread?

 

Done!!!

Edited May 20, 2008 by Ann Finley

[MikeW]

Hi,

 

Yesterday I posted a link to a number of scans of brown and green inks, including the Levenger Gemstone Green. I used premium copy paper for the scans (20lb) and did not experience any feathering with this ink.

 

BTW, here is the post:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...mp;#entry616034

 

Hope that this is helpful.

[kiavonne]

Thanks for the review! That was a good bit of feathering/flow going on. I wonder if you were to pick up the same pen and ink again during different weather and using different paper... would it be the same? Don't laugh, but I noticed some interesting changes in the flow of my pens in certain situations, including a barometric change.

 

And, now I know exactly what to write when coming up with an ink sample! I didn't think about the difficult words sentence/paragraph/page.

[JDlugosz]

And, now I know exactly what to write when coming up with an ink sample! I didn't think about the difficult words sentence/paragraph/page.

 

That is an homage to the FPN. You can find the full thing in the Penmanship forum. Just search for a fragment.

[JohnS-MI]

The ink and the paper may just not get along. I included a couple of lines of Gemstone Green in my Levenger Cardinal Red review about 16 months ago https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=22467 I didn't have feathering on Ampad Gold Fibre paper. I also have it in my "ink book" (Black'N'Red notebook) where it shows no feathering. Both it and the red feathered on some "generic" paper though.

 

I certainly agree it is terrified of water. Did the PR Sherwood Green get exposed to the same water? It did well.

[JDlugosz]

The ink and the paper may just not get along.

 

Interesting. So is there a paper with a reputation for taking gushers well? I could use both wet and dry papers in future reviews.

 

--John

[JohnS-MI]

Some papers do better than others. The confusing part is there is some pen-ink-paper interaction.

 

If there were no interaction, results on one paper would predict results on another. If you rank ordered inks for feathering on any paper, you would expect (but not get) the same rank order on another paper. Everything would be a little better or a little worse, in lockstep, according to whether the paper is better or worse.

 

In the real world, that happens most of the time and is "broadly" predictive, but some changes in rank ordering will occur, and some combinations will be worse than expected, ie "just not get along."

 

The two papers I mentioned, Ampad Gold Fibre (good) and Black'N'Red (VERY good) are usually very good on feathering. However, I expect there is an ink they don't like; I just haven't used it yet.

[JDlugosz]

The two papers I mentioned, Ampad Gold Fibre (good) and Black'N'Red (VERY good) are usually very good on feathering. However, I expect there is an ink they don't like; I just haven't used it yet.

 

But isn't the HP Prem Laser 32# also known to be good on feathering (and bad on shading)?

 

--John

[JDlugosz]

I'm updating this to note the HSB values measured from the scan.

180°, 43%, 45%

 

That is interesting, as 180° is dead-on Cyan.

 

--John