Pink Ink. Yeah it's hard for me to get excited over a colour tone I find at the end of the line wanting to be picked. So let me go right into the characteristics of this ink, because there is nothing bad really to say about it's details. A light pastel it has shading that is very nice. With a wet pen you can create halo and tonal shifts, even on a stiff nib you will see nice subtle shade shifts. If you like the colour, you should really love the output. The Chromatography test was interesting in that I expected by this point a single dye character in such a light pastel tone? What fooled me was that the ink didn't flow in the test strip as expected. You can just see the original line and while the dye flowed away with water, it does in a very static gradient. Perhaps this spread is a clue to the shading properties?
I used a fine nib with this and it's a bit dry in flow, so I think I would have used a wetter medium nib looking back after the test. In the fine I found it too light for my taste. And I'd blame that on the pastel tone as much as the colour. It is a bit hard to review a colour I have no real affinity for. I liked how it performed and tested and going through 8 different colour of the spectrum I learned that there is a place for almost anything. Pink? Well I could see it in some art and cartoon applications. I'd skip writing with it. Not my cup of tea.
ABOUT THE INK and International Short CartridgesThese inks are acid free & archival safe. They dry quickly & are only slightly water resistant. (You trade water resistance with a dye that is easy to clean and water-based.) Dyes are non-toxic, pH neutral & Light-fast. All the ink colours are very kind to pens and easy to clean after use. They will store up to three years without any problems. The ink cartridge are European.
These international Short Cartridges are about 38mm long & 8mm in diameter. Most pen bodies will hold one inserted into the pen feeder/section and then one extra spare reversed behind that in the tail of the pen's body.
The short carts fit all the pens I sell which have removable converter pumps. (A long International Cartridge is about the same length as an ink converter. While it holds more, you can't store a spare like with the short.)
