Maisgelb (Maise Yellow) - Standardgraph

[visvamitra]

Standardgraph Zeichentechnik GmbH is german manufacturer of technical drawing instruments, rulers and pencil sharpeners. They also have inks. They manufacture and distribute their own calligraphy products and products from the company Rubinato. I believe Standardgraph inks are made in Germany by Standardgraph.

Tehy offer palette of 24 colors. I'm going to try all of them and review them. It'll take time but I'll do it My ambition is to present inks of less known companies as my input here. Of course I stay open to all inks and review bnis and small names. However I must confess I have some sort of weakness for smaller companies and less known brands. I won't favor them, I'll be honest though.

I find Maisgelb stunning. Simply.

Please - remember that in most of my reviews I use very wet pens. Kaweco Sport turned to eyedropper always leaves line that is saturated. If you're notorious fine nib user you may be disappointed by some of inks that appear rich in color in my reviews. They are but only in broad, wet nibs that I use use on everyday basis. I don't really like fine nibs so I almost never use them to review inks.

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Color range

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LINUM notebook - Kaweco Classic Sport. Eyedropper mode, broad nib

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Edited November 26, 2014 by visvamitra

[Morbus Curiositas]

Nice Ink Visa but it appear more like Pumpkin or Autmn Orange to me..

 

But it is a nice colour

[Morbus Curiositas]

Great Idea...

 

I have a soft spot for small passionate companies.... Promoting them is a great idea

[amberleadavis]

Hmm.... this one appears warm and golden. I like it.

[Sakura FP Gallery]

Indeed a bronze warm colour.

[lgsoltek]

I've just got it. And it's gorgeous.

 

[visvamitra]

Yes, it's very nice color

[mehandiratta]

where can u get this ink... i would love to try this one.... lovel y color...

 

amazing review...

[lgsoltek]

where can u get this ink... i would love to try this one.... lovel y color...

 

amazing review...

 

I got the Standardgraph inks from Seitz Global. Their shipping fee is quite reasonable. (The usual "no affiliation" blablabla...)

[bureaudirect]

Lovely colour! Now I remember why I bought Pelikan Edelstein Amber, lol

 

Mishka

Edited July 22, 2015 by bureaudirect

[Enkida]

I bought this ink because of this review, and this is the horrendous colour I got yesterday: flourescent highlighter yellow. I feel a bit like a fool because this would be the second, yes, second time I was dumb enough to buy something from Standardgraph and got the "wrong colour" -- but looking at it makes me think: are you sure you all aren't reviewing Coffee Brown?

 

Anyway I am beyond peeved off at falling for Standardgraph's faulty colour labels yet again. I know it's only 4€ but the time and headache to get it fixed when no one sells it locally is much more expensive than that. Arg. ARG.

 

Also, just for anyone else thinking of buying this from Seitz Kreuznach: their swatches are wrong and match Vis's review as well. Or I got the wrong ink in the bottle. Either or, just know that the swatches on the store site are matching this review, and not matching what you get...

 

Editing in: I'm totally not angry at this review or even Seitz Kreuznach. I'm not sure that came across in my original ranting words, whoops. I am completely angry at Standardgraph for a second fail. They were the first ink company I ever bought a bottled fountain pen ink from and the mess up then nearly turned me off of fountain pens permanently. You know what they say, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... make raging posts on FPN, I guess.

Edited May 21, 2019 by Enkida

[Honeybadgers]

Really dig it.

[Uncial]

Whatever the original review is of it looks to me like a perfect match for Montblanc Purdey & Sons ink and at 4 euro a bottle that would be quite a saving.

[lgsoltek]

I bought this ink because of this review, and this is the horrendous colour I got yesterday: flourescent highlighter yellow. I feel a bit like a fool because this would be the second, yes, second time I was dumb enough to buy something from Standardgraph and got the "wrong colour" -- but looking at it makes me think: are you sure you all aren't reviewing Coffee Brown?

 

Anyway I am beyond peeved off at falling for Standardgraph's faulty colour labels yet again. I know it's only 4€ but the time and headache to get it fixed when no one sells it locally is much more expensive than that. Arg. ARG.

 

Also, just for anyone else thinking of buying this from Seitz Kreuznach: their swatches are wrong and match Vis's review as well. Or I got the wrong ink in the bottle. Either or, just know that the swatches on the store site are matching this review, and not matching what you get...

 

Editing in: I'm totally not angry at this review or even Seitz Kreuznach. I'm not sure that came across in my original ranting words, whoops. I am completely angry at Standardgraph for a second fail. They were the first ink company I ever bought a bottled fountain pen ink from and the mess up then nearly turned me off of fountain pens permanently. You know what they say, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... make raging posts on FPN, I guess.

 

I'm pretty sure you got a mislabelled bottle. It's probably Krokusgelb (Crocus yellow):

 

[Michael R.]

My bottle of Maize Yellow is a nice golden-beige-yellow color. Not as dark and orange but also not a true bright yellow.

 

Maybe a mislabeled bottle. I don't think they changed the formula.

 

Cheers

 

Michael

[Enkida]

Thanks all... I'm sure I got another bum bottle, which makes them 100% wrong for me all of the time now. You know, I really like Fig Brown (the colour they gave me in a 10mL bottle as an apology for the first stuff up), and when I finally got my hands on Burgundy, the colour I wanted, I did like it, and Maisgelb really does look nice here. But if they can't get their labels right twice in a row, I figure I must be particularly unlucky and shouldn't push it anymore.

 

If you can get the colour it's supposed to be, you're lucky and I envy you! I'm just not inclined to throw any more money at them anymore after being burned twice. Thank you for sleuthing out which colour I sent back, though!

 

(incidentally, I think Krokusgelb is a nightmare of a colour. A real highlighter ink, no subtlety or nuance at all. Use it to refill your highlighters if you got it, or do what I did and throw it back at the store with great prejudice.)

[Enkida]

So to follow up on this incident, I mailed Standardgraph directly and got a bit of a confusing answer concerning Maisgelb that may help others, at least in the fact that if you got the wrong colour and complain to the company, they will send you a replacement bottle. Whether or not you get the right colour, well, read on...

 

Here's my original mail I sent (in German, TL,DR translation: "You guys filled the wrong colour in a falsely labelled bottle twice now, I am annoyed, fix your quality control.")

 

 

SgDuH,

Kürzlich habe ich über den Online-Shop von Seitz-Kreuznach die Tinte "Maisgelb" von Standardgraph bestellt. Die Lieferung erfolgte pünktlich, und daher war die Enttäuschung größer, als ich feststellte, dass ich "Krokusgelb" in einer falsch etikettierten Flasche anstatt in des von mir bestellten Maisgelbs erhalten hatte. Ich habe die Tinte umgehend wieder zurückgeschickt.

Ich schreibe jedoch, weil ich zum zweiten Mal eine Standardgraph-Tinte gekauft habe und die falsche Tinte in einer falsch etikettierten Flasche erhalten habe. Die erst Standardgraph-Tinte habe ich vor ca. vier Jahren bei Ortloff in Köln gekauft. Das Test-Fass im Laden hatte tatsächlich die korrekte Tinte zum Etikett und entsprach dem erwarteten. Die mir verkaufte Flasche (gleiches Etikett) enthielt aber eine falsche Tinte. Ich hatte eigentlich die Hoffnung, dass die verstrichene Zeit ausreichend war, um die Qualitätskontrollprobleme in den Griff zu bekommen, leider wurde ich eines Besseren belehrt.

Ihr Unternehmen muss sich verstärkt um die Qualitätskontrolle Ihrer Abfüllbetriebe kümmern. Dies ist eine 100% ige Fehlerquote bei der Lieferung eines von Ihnen versprochenen Produkts, soweit ich als Verbraucher betroffen bin. Gleiche Erfahrungen werden auch von anderen Kunden in den diversen Foren für Füllerenthusiasten geteilt.

Ich hoffe, Sie werden ernsthaft darüber nachdenken, Ihre Tintenproduktionsstandards zu verbessern. Ihr Unternehmen stellt mehrere schöne, einzigartige Farben her, die ich gerne besitzen würde, darunter Maisgelb. Ich habe aber nicht wirklich Lust und Zeit diverse Geschäfte / online-shops durch Bestellungen und Rücksendungen zu nerven und gegen mich aufzubringen.

Ich bin sehr enttäuscht und hoffe, dass Ihr Unternehmen die Kundenzufriedenheit in Zukunft ernst nimmt.

MfG,

 

 

The answer I got, also in German:

 

Sehr geehrte Frau ---,



leider werden die Tinten auf Dauer so abgefüllt. Ich schicke Ihnen heute 2x Krokusgelb Art.Nr. 572207 zu. (das ist die dunklere)

Bitte bestellen Sie dann zukünftig die Nr. 572207.

Für die Unannehmlichkeiten möchte ich mich entschuldigen.



Mit freundlichen Grüßen/with best regards



Gabriele Grossner

Standardgraph Zeichentechnik GmbH

Spreestr. 27-31, 82538 Geretsried / Germany

Tel. 08171 – 388 0 * Fax 08171 – 388 124

www.standardgraph.de

 

 

 

Translation: "Unfortunately the inks are filled well in advance that way. I'll send you 2 bottles of Krokusgelb Nr. 572207 today (that's the darker one). In the future please order 572207. We're sorry for the inconvenience."

 

So in other words, they've ??? renamed Maisgelb to Krokusgelb ??? and the only way you'll know if you're getting this colour is if you look for the number 572207 on the bottle somewhere.

 

I don't know. We'll see what the heck shows up on my doorstep and what it's labelled as this time.

[Michael R.]

That makes no sense ... or I don get it ;-)

 

I‘m curious how your new bottles turn out.

 

I have both Krokusgelb and Maisgelb from many years ago and they don‘t have anything in common.

 

But my Maisgelb turned to a much more brown shade from a more golden-beige over the last years. So depending on the age the color may turn out different.

 

Cheers

 

Michael

[Enkida]

I know, I clearly said in my email that I ordered Maisgelb, I wanted Maisgelb, and I got Krokusgelb. I'm a little confused by the CS response of "we're sending you 2 bottles of Krokusgelb, don't worry, it's dark" as an answer. I'm really hoping I don't get two bottles of acid yellow that I'll have to offload somehow in my mailbox, though... kudos to the company for trying, I guess.

[Enkida]

Conclusion: Buy "Maisgelb" at your own risk, Standardgraph is officially calling it "Krokusgelb" now (even though the label colour is also wrong...) Pics:

 

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