Fabriano - Blu Cielo

[Sandy1]

Clearly we have two different inks, but the labels are the same.

 

I have no idea why such a thing happens: Where's the QC-QA? :mad:

 

I guess that the reason is in the fact that Fabriano as a company (they are the luxury brand of Fedrigoni group) is a paper producer, I guess that they only manufacture paper productss in house, of stationery like pens, pencils and inks is simply outsourced, maybe to more than one company.

Hi,

 

I would not be surprised that ink production is outsourced. However, I believe it is the responsibility of Fabriano to take ultimate responsibility: their name = their responsibility and their reputation.

 

If they received a batch of ink that was intended to be blu cielo, but was very different, they could just rename it, affix new labels, then issue it as an LE ink - I would!

 

Bye,

S1

[Bo Bo Olson]

Sandy

Some one would have to test it...before lunch but not too close to lunch. Then make a decision that cost money...soaking off the old labels, printing a new label and gluing it back on.

 

Could be the GASF is low.

 

A grumpy boss, with an Italian Emotion Explosion....it's too close to lunch to worry.

[Phormula]

My personal feeling is that fountain pen ink is a "minor" product in Fabriano lineup, both in term of sales and product itself (as I said, they are a paper producer), and they simply do not pay too much attention to it. It is there to have some writing stuff to be sold in Fabriano stores, together with the paper. Most likely they outsource the production of all the writing stuff, and don't care that much about batch to batch consistency. I can't say if they are aware or not, coud be that they know but consider it as a minor issue, because they ignore the existence of FP nuts like us :roflmho:

 

It is like Moleskine, they outsource the production and there is a huge variability in bleeding between different batches of the same notebook, diary or writing pad.