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Shanghai Hero Light Industrial Imp & Exp. Co., LTD is the owner of “HERO” and “DOCTOR” brands of fountain pens in China. The brand is well known in China and around the world. You may find it interesting to know that in Poland in seventies and eighties of the last century Hero fountain pens were ones of very few available on the market. Therefore a lot of people in Poland, especially senior ones, share sentiment for this company and it’s products.



Apart from pens and other products company offers also inks. It seems the colors available at the moment are Red, Blue, Blue/Black and Black but I may be wrong. They offer a wider variety of colorful inks in China. I ordered some on Taobao but haven't received them yet.



Fabri00 sent me samples of some inks and there were two Hero inks inside tha package - 232 and 233.



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Hero 233 is rather boring blue inks. In terms of colors it just drowns in the sea of other blue inks.



On the other hand the ink is reasonably priced and well behaved. My sad conclusion was it's actualluy better behaved than Caran d'Ache Chromatics inks and I don;t exagerate.



Drying time is reasonable and the ink doesn't cause feathering or bleedthrough. It cleans easily from the pen and didn't cause me any hard starts or skipping.




Drops of ink on kitchen towel



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Software ID



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Color range



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Maruman, Kaweco Classic Sport, broad nib



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Leuchtturm1917, Kaweco Classic Sport, broad nib



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Oxford optic, Kaweco Classic Sport, broad nib



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Water resistance



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visvamitra,

 

Just a small point. Hero pens not only owns the Doctor brand name for pens but a whole catalogue of brand names due to the many rounds of acquisition. However, the company does not own the Hero name for inks; that's owned by Shanghai Fine Stationary, also known as Shanghai Ink Factory.

No, I am not going to list my pens here.

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Thanks for the review. This has fully convinced that I will not get this ink. The colour just does nothing for me.

 

visvamitra,

 

Just a small point. Hero pens not only owns the Doctor brand name for pens but a whole catalogue of brand names due to the many rounds of acquisition. However, the company does not own the Hero name for inks; that's owned by Shanghai Fine Stationary, also known as Shanghai Ink Factory.

Sorry but this keeps confusing me even after reading about it many times in other places: Hero ink and Hero pens are not made by the same people, correct?

Hero #232 Blue-Black is my Waterman Florida Blue.

 

Your Kilometrage May Vary (#ykmv), a Philippine blawg about ink and fountain pens.

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I couldn't agree more with your assessment.Every Hero red, blue, and black ink (other than carbon black) I've tried is incredibly boring and dull (in the visual sense) on the page. They are all sitting in my office drawer waiting to be given away.

 

Interesting historical link between Hero and Poland!

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visvamitra,

 

Just a small point. Hero pens not only owns the Doctor brand name for pens but a whole catalogue of brand names due to the many rounds of acquisition. However, the company does not own the Hero name for inks; that's owned by Shanghai Fine Stationary, also known as Shanghai Ink Factory.

Interesting.

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Interesting historical link between Hero and Poland!

 

 

All the Eastern-European countries were connected with Russia or China in the old times, and a lot of goods were imported only from those 2 countries.

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Well, at least I don't need to track these down. Thank you for the great review.

Fountain pens are my preferred COLOR DELIVERY SYSTEM (in part because crayons melt in Las Vegas).

Create a Ghostly Avatar and I'll send you a letter. Check out some Ink comparisons: The Great PPS Comparison 

Don't know where to start?  Look at the Inky Topics O'day.  Then, see inks sorted by color: Blue Purple Brown Red Green Dark Green Orange Black Pinks Yellows Blue-Blacks Grey/Gray UVInks Turquoise/Teal MURKY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I have used the Herbin Eclat de Saphir & you are right in that this is the same colour.

It just doesn't stand out from the crowd.

I would prefer to see what happens to a sample left under daylight for a few weeks to see if it had better fade resistance.

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I have used the Herbin Eclat de Saphir & you are right in that this is the same colour.

It just doesn't stand out from the crowd.

I would prefer to see what happens to a sample left under daylight for a few weeks to see if it had better fade resistance.

 

The blue Hero inks don't seem to have any fade resistance whatsoever. The same is true for the reds. The blue-blacks, however, are another story.

They fade, but are still legible.

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How about a streak of the Hero 233 and Eclat de Saphir side by side?

I am of the impression that the Herbin ink is still slightly purple tinted.

I have not seen it in direct comparison with the Hero ink, so it is hard to tell any difference between the two.

Goodnesss: It is quite a job getting a blue which looks absolutely pure.

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