Dr Ph Martins Ocean 3e Dark Matter Black Review

INK REVIEW - DR. PH. MARTIN'Due south OCEAN FOUNTAIN PEN INK -

DARK Affair Blackness

Background:

Dr. Ph. Martin's artist products are manufactured by Salis International, founded in 1934. Ben Salis, the founder's son, began to work for his family unit'due south business in 1936, at the age of xvi. That twelvemonth, in the height of the Great Depression, he was paid merely $ane per week.

Ben Salis was given the honorific championship of "Dr. Martin" afterwards he invented many graphics and color products, and obtained several blueprint patents. Although he was not a existent doctor, products with the merchandise name of "Doctor" earned instant respectability in the patent medicine era, so the name was applied to his inventions. Dr. Ph. Martin's products are among a handful of "doctor" products that remain on the market today.

Ben Salis passed abroad in 1996, but his business and his legacy remain, and today his children go on to manufacture Dr. Ph. Martin'southward inks and colour products. They are the 3rd generation in a family tradition. (Excerpt from http://www.dickblick...s/dr-ph-martins).

Dr. Ph. Martin's new series of brilliant Fountain Pen Inks are pigment base of operations inks. Originally designed for TWSBI #580 & #700 fountain pens, they can be used in similar fountain pens. Dr. Ph. Martin's claims that these are the simply paint base fountain pen ink that is lightfast and archival. These highly saturated inks are intense in colour. The colors currently available are:

Ocean Border Bluish (Reviewed)

Garnet Cerise Rose

Dark Matter Black

They are AP approved Not-toxic.

docmar9 kindly provided samples to test these inks, which is greatly appreciated.

Materials Used:

Papers used:

Xerox 24lb Multi-Purpose paper purchased from Costco

Tomoe River-like paper in Traveler's Notebook refill 013

Staples Notepad newspaper

Staples ARC Notebook paper

Pens used:

Baoer Horses with fine nib

Jinhao 450x with Goulet 1.1 stub pecker

TWSBI Diamond 580 with Tomahawk stub nib (kindly loaned past amberleadavis)

two. Writing sample on Xerox 24lb Multi-Purpose paper using Baoer "Horses" with fine pecker:

• No feathering, bleedthrough or showthrough
• Highly saturated.
• Dries chop-chop (under ten seconds)
• No smearing as would be expected on a relatively absorbent paper.
• My only complaint was that the ink as well dried very chop-chop in the nib; causing very hard starts.

three. Writing sample on Tomoe River-like paper in Traveler'south Notebook refill 013 with Jinhao 450x : In this Jinhao 450x with Goulet 1.1 stub bill, the ink flowed very well with a dainty lubricated experience. As expected, the ink took a keen deal longer to dry.

iv. Writing sample on Staples ARC Notebook paper with TWSBI Diamond 580 with Tomahawk stub pecker (kindly loaned by amberleadavis): This ink pairs well with the TWSBI, which is what it was made for. It flowed smoothly and dried fairly rapidly without drying in the bill. Overall I was impressed with this pairing.

5. Test for water, alcohol, ammonia resistance : As with the other Dr. Ph. Martin's inks tested, I prepared a cursory writing sample on Staples Notepad paper (an unfavorable newspaper for fountain pens). The ink wrote very smoothly on the newspaper, with very trivial feathering and surprisingly no bleedthrough and petty showthrough. I then placed this small sail of paper into a bowl of water and left it there for two hours. There was almost no fading of color indicating that the ink is waterproof. Equally with the other Dr. Ph. Martin Sea inks, this ink is likewise mostly resistant to alcohol and ammonia. While I would non call this completely "bulletproof", I would consider it clearly archival. I did non test for lightfastness, even so.

5. Cleaning: The ink requires a more rigorous cleaning in order to remove all traces of the ink. I used Goulet Pen Wash which helped.

Impressions:

Bottle: The ink comes in very nicely weighted, stable, circular drinking glass bottle with an accompanying eyedropper.

Colour : Dark Thing Black is a very dark black. I am generally non a fan of black inks, but I must say that I similar this one. It is intense and serious. In that location is no shading or sheen, but it is fairly bulletproof.

Formulation: The ink is fairly dry in flow and needs a moisture pecker. When used in a medium nib, the ink dried rapidly in the nib causing hard starting. This was not the instance in the TWSBI or the Jinhao x450 stub nib.

Overall: I by and large do not like black inks. I do, notwithstanding, like this ane. It is black – seriously black. It has good archival properties. Information technology does, all the same, required extra efforts to clean.

In decision, this is a highly saturated, archival quality ink that would be an excellent choice for someone who needs a "bulletproof" ink that shows limited feathering and bleed through fifty-fifty on cheap papers, simply still maintains squeamish shading qualities. This is now my selection for a bulletproof black.

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