Kwz Azure 5

[bioluminescentsquid]

This is also quite a fine ink. I've heard that it's a very good Parker Penman Sapphire replacement, but I've never seen PPS in person and I cannot speak to the resemblance.

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON017%20_zpswibjstpd.jpg

 

It, however, is a beautiful blue ink. It looks almost violet in the bottle and while it dries, but I assure that this is blue. Occasionally, it sheens a magenta like many blue inks do. It's not water resistant. It does bleed on the worst of the papers, but never feathers.

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON012%20%202_zps5b9d9gf8.jpg

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON019%20_zpshcmzao14.jpg

Staples Bagasse paper; this is quite a dry nib. I promise that the rest of the pictures are better.

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON015%20_zpsccqarlwi.jpg

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON015%20%202_zpsscmhcpow.jpg

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON015%20%203_zpsonsxwr49.jpg

Kokuyo filler paper

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON006%20_zpspvxeaj8i.jpg

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON006%20%208_zpskxeek4cl.jpg

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON006%20%209_zpspery8q7r.jpg

Daiso paper

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON003%20%203_zpscwbqbsjm.jpg

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON003%20%208_zpsjxhgxnyk.jpg

 

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/Andy_Quaen/EPSON003%20%209_zpslkj557sk.jpg

maruman mnemosyne

[lgsoltek]

I love this. Indeed I have a bottle.

[mehandiratta]

beautiful...

[Cyber6]

Gorgeous Ink..... THANKS so much for the beautiful reviews..

 

 

C.

[lapis]

Nice review. Good colour effects here. I have it, use it, love it but wouldn't say it is a replacement, even a reminder of PPS. But no problem. Main thing is, it is available today and that at a good price.

 

Mike

[Cyber6]

Nice review. Good colour effects here. I have it, use it, love it but wouldn't say it is a replacement, even a reminder of PPS. But no problem. Main thing is, it is available today and that at a good price.

 

Mike

 

Really??... I find them extremely close..

 

 

C.

[lapis]

All the better! Still, less dough than what you need to cough out for a pinch of PPS!

[haruka337]

Ah! Me thinks I have a friend who'd like this ink. Leans away enough from cyan, PPS leans, in my opinion, much more towards cyan.

KWZ Ink Azure #5 is what I hoped Nagasawa Kobe Ur Lapis would look like.

Keep them reviews comin'!

[lapis]

With an Herbin glass dip pen on Rhodia 90, I see it like this:

http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/Azure5_and_PPS_1.jpg

 

In comparison, I find that the Azure 5 has about the same wetness and lubricity as the PPS does, maybe somewhat less wet, but more saturated. At the same time, the Azure is in any case darker and also has IMO more of a red touch than the very subtle hunch of green touch for which the PPS is known to appeal. Also -- at last with this pen on this paper -- the Azure 5 here bleeds less than the PPS does.

 

FWIW

Edited February 25, 2016 by lapis

[Cyber6]

Oh oh.. Pic??.. Where are you??

 

With an Herbin glass dip pen on Rhodia 90, I see it like this:

http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu264/peli46/Azure5_and_PPS_1.jpg

 

In comparison, I find that the Azure 5 has about the same wetness and lubricity as the PPS does, maybe somewhat less wet, but more saturated. At the same time, the Azure is in any case darker and also has IMO more of a red touch than the very subtle hunch of green touch for which the PPS is known to appeal. Also -- at last with this pen on this paper -- the Azure 5 here bleeds less than the PPS does.

 

FWIW

[lapis]

Sorry, this Azure is great, that PPS is/was great, but PB, never did understand that boy.......................

[niunia]

@bioluminescentsquid thank you for a nice review!!! )

 

I remember we accidentaly noticed the similarity of Azure #5 and PPS during the meeting with Visvamitra and viewing his journal of reviews, so then he also posted the comparison

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/292258-parker-penman-sapphire-blue/

 

warm regards

- Agnieszka vel Mrs. KWZI

[Cyber6]

@bioluminescentsquid thank you for a nice review!!! )

 

I remember we accidentaly noticed the similarity of Azure #5 and PPS during the meeting with Visvamitra and viewing his journal of reviews, so then he also posted the comparison

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/292258-parker-penman-sapphire-blue/

 

warm regards

- Agnieszka vel Mrs. KWZI

 

 

Hey YOU !!... Now you have your own name... LOL!!!

 

 

 

C.

[lapis]

Thanks, Agnieszka, I just re-looked at that site. The two inks on my paper do have similarities -- all the more to Konrad's wonderful work. But I still wouldn't really call them all that identical. But anything that is a replacement for PPS can always be cherished as a true gem these days.

 

Mike

[Cyber6]

Thanks, Agnieszka, I just re-looked at that site. The two inks on my paper do have similarities -- all the more to Konrad's wonderful work. But I still wouldn't really call them all that identical. But anything that is a replacement for PPS can always be cherished as a true gem these days.

 

Mike

 

 

Not to beat a dead horse (or a dead dog??.. not sure how the english saying goes)... ..No one really call it "identical". Is just very similar.

 

We all know that even the same ink (same color/brand) is not even identical between batches. If you add the differences introduced by paper, pen, flow, nib... We know that even the same ink from the same bottle might look vastly different on different pens/paper.

 

So for the time being, is safe to assume that Azure #5 is one of the closest look-alike to PPS. (not counting custom ink mixes)

 

 

C.

[Cyber6]

Penman Sapphire on a wet, broad, flex pen.

 

 

 

Again here, you can see the similar sheen between Steel Blue, Tolstoy and PPS.

 

 

[lapis]

Neat, the sheen you have amazed us with is, yes, gorgeous. I even see some sheen on the original paper for the scan I made above of both the Azure #5 and the PPS (when held up advantageously under the right lighting). There, too, there is a good (nice?, close?, neat?, great?) similarity between the PPS and that above-shown Azure #5... that beautiful reddish halo at the very edges of the writing. Still, the Azure #5 is darker and less green, to me... but I do love it. One of my favourite blues, I must say. Never was all that hot about PPS. "TG" says

 

My wallet

[AndyYNWA]

Penman Sapphire on a wet, broad, flex pen.

 

 

 

Again here, you can see the similar sheen between Steel Blue, Tolstoy and PPS.

 

 

What Steel Blue is that?

[lapis]

Looks more like DeA's than D's. Your review of one week ago shows that much sheen... if not even more... IMO D's is greener..........

 

Mike

[white_lotus]

Well this has convinced me to acquire more KWZ inks.

 

And I'm sad that I was never able to get a bottle of the MB Tolstoy.

 

AndyYNWA, I think that's the DeAtramentis Steel Blue.