Ink Review: Color Traveler Saijo

Color Traveler ink Sakagura Black, Red Brick Chimney and Persimmon belong to the Saijo collection. You can purchase some Color Traveler inks from Shigure Inks.

Swabs:

Left to right: Sakagura Black, Red Brick Chimney and Persimmon.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.

Dry Time: 30-40 seconds

Water Resistance: Medium

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: All three had low shading.

On Walmart Pen + Gear copy paper there was some feathering and bleeding in all nib sizes.

Comparison Swabs:

Sakagura Black is lighter than these other black inks, it’s almost a dark grey.

Red Brick Chimney is closest to Tono & Lims May I Help You.

Persimmon is similar to Pelikan Edelstein Mandarin.

I used a Taroko Enigma notebook. All three inks had average flows.

Overall, Red Brick Chimney is my favorite out of the three. It’s an unusual color and not one there are a lot of similar inks to.

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