Pelikan 4001 Turquoise

Review of Pelikan 4001 Turquoise fountain pen ink using a Pilot Penmanship EF nib.

Chapters:
00:00 Swatch color comparison
00:10 Zoom (microscope) photo
00:15 Line Width
00:20 Written review
00:35 Dry Time
00:51 Writing Sample
02:08 Subjective Analysis
02:38 Zoom of absorbent paper
03:12 Quote & Writing Prompt
03:45 Close-up of completed review
03:57 Scan of completed review
04:02 End screen, links to channel and previous review

Post-recording notes: The microscope slide had nothing new or terribly interesting. Cleaning was quick and easy, but this is the sort of ink that dries and then flakes everywhere (invisibly, of course) when you open the bottle or remove the converter. So expect spots of turquoise to show up around wherever you've opened the bottle or filled the pen. Fortunately, plain water removes the ink. Personally, I'd go with a turquoise that has better lubrication, but otherwise, this ink is about as good as all the rest. :)

The cameras didn't really like this color. They wanted to make it cyan, and all of them did something different. Further, I couldn't really figure out how to correct the colors very well. Please rely on the comparisons - it really does look almost exactly like all those other turquoises.

Zoomed in photo (A little too cyan, but I can't seem to make it any better, so leaving it as-is.)
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Screenshot (This seems to be the closest to what my eyes see.)
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Scan of Completed Review (On one monitor, it's too cyan and light. On the other, it's too blue, but about right for darkness. It makes a person want to give up...)
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Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (The absorbent paper image is closer to reality than the copy paper, but they're not awful. :D)
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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 317µm. With 277 inks measured, the average line width is 296µm.)
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