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Founded in Heidelberg in 1883, as Heidelberger Federhalterfabrik, the company started by producing a modest range of wooden dip pens. The Kaweco brand name, originally developed as a model name and coined after Koch, Weber & Company, the owners, was adopted as the company name in the early 1900’s. By the 1930’s over 600 staff were producing a huge array of fountain pens and pencils, including the popular Sport range of pocket pens. The company's survived almost one hundred years but in 1980 its operations were closed.

Happily that wasn't the end of the brand. Horst Gutberlet - owner of H&M Gutberlet GmbH and pen enthusiast and his son Michael were able to but the brand name in 1994. They started working on reviving the brand. It took many years of dedicated work. The brand was initially distributed by Diplomat however over the years their line-up has extended and they were able to create their own international network of distributors.

As with most big dreams the realisation took many years of dedicated work. The Kaweco brand was initially distributed by Diplomat. Over the years, the model line-up has expanded and Kaweco has created their own international network of distributors.

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Today Kaweco offers wide variety of fountain pens and accessories. They have eight inks in their line-up. I don't know makes their inks, however I've read somewhere it was Dr. Pflug from Aratrum (creator of Caran d'Ache inks). If anyone has some data on this topic, I'd like to learn it :)

Anyway the inks are sold in generic glass bottles (30 ml) and their price is steep. Given that in my country Kaweco inks are priced higher (price per 1 ml) than Edelstein or Graf von Faber-Castell I keep on aking myself "what were you guys thinking"? I expect premium priced products to offer premium experience - premium inks should be well-behaved and offer some added value as aesthetic bottle. Here KaWeCo doesn't deliver. The bottle is cheap, heneric and boring. Practical, no doubt, but if you want me to pay premium give me premium :)

  1. Karamel Braun (Caramel Brown)
  2. Konigsblau (Royal Blue)
  3. Mittertnachtsblau (Midnight Blue)
  4. Palmen Grun (Palm Green)
  5. Paradies Blau (Paradise Blue)
  6. Perlen Schwarz (Pearl Black)
  7. Rubinrot (Ruby Red)
  8. Sommer Lila (Summer Burple)

Paradiesblau is well-behaved ink with no waterproofness. What about the color? I hate it. Definitely not my type of "blue".

Ink Splash

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Drops of ink on kitchen towel

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Waterproofness

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Software ID

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Copy paper, Kaweco Sport Classic, B

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Comparison

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Nice review. I find these inks not only too expensive and boring for their quality, but the real pinch is that the bottles aren't even labeled as to what the ink's name or number is supposed to be. IMO silly that you have to look that up in the company's site.

 

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Thanks for the review. This one looks similar to Cd'A Caribbean Sea. I like the fact that these seem to be reincarnations of some of the old favorite Cd'A inks. Some of those had very loyal followings.

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Definitely not a colour for my paradise.

Mine either. Having reviews of inks that convince me I don't want them is often more useful than ones that make me want them. And certainly better for my wallet... :lol:

Thanks to visvamitra for this amount of diligence.

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I'm really enjoying a cartridge of Kaweco Paradise Blue in my circa-1991 Pilot 78G (a version that has silver-colored furniture and an international-cartridge-accepting section), mounted with a more modern Prera "CM" nib. In this particular pen-and-nib combo the flow is perfect -- it never skips, and everything is perfectly legible (not too much shading, but just a little for "added interest").

 

For me it's a cheerful color that is currently adding a bit of fun to what would otherwise be pretty tedious note taking.

 

Thank you Vis for your work! It's so kewl that, even though you don't like blue-greens like Pilot iroshizuku ku-jaku and Kaweco Paradise Blue, you still put in the same effort for them as you do for the colors you do enjoy.

 

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Nice review. I find these inks not only too expensive and boring for their quality, but the real pinch is that the bottles aren't even labeled as to what the ink's name or number is supposed to be. IMO silly that you have to look that up in the company's site.

 

Mike

Lapis nailed it. Sorry, this one is a real "EWWWW" ink. On a positive note, their brown in cartridges is wonderful BUT you can't get it in a bottle.


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Sorry, this one is a real "EWWWW" ink.

 

Well okay then. It gets worse. Just picture in your mind that I used it to write

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The verbage makes sense, the color is still EWWWWW. That is all.


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I hate it.

 

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I find that this family of colors tends to darken and "tame down" after it sits in a pen for a while. While I like the tropical-sea blues (after mellowing) this one isn't cheap, convenient or unusual enough to merit a spot on the shelf. Besides, I know for sure that Waterman 'South Seas' ('Inspired') will deepen to a beautiful color sitting in my desk pen, so I'm sticking with it.

 

Thanks for the review; I always enjoy the ones you write!

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This review and Chrissie's remind me of the old Waterman South Sea blue....what ever funny name it now has.

Ink-Geek's looks teal.

South Sea Blue could be cheaper....it's been years since I bought any Waterman....since I was a noobie. My E7.00 in my mind from then must be out of date. It was 50ml, and in one of with Pelikan the best cheap bottles ever made.

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I hate it.

 

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That cat's evidently got taste.

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I've heard that the boxes for Kaweco's ink bottles are transparent. Can anyone confirm that?

Kaweco ink bottles were originally not issued in boxes. Also, they only had a label and a paper band stretched over the lid, and none of these parts showed any ink name or number. Slight all-clear: the six-pack of cartridges many months back started to show the name of the ink (also slanted, on top of the name "Kaweco"). Much later, say in the summer of 2016, the bottles' labels also had the ink name imprinted in the same fashion. At that time, transparent boxes for the bottles were also included, first in the UK and in the US. AFAIK, these are not yet sold in Germany. If you look at amazon and/or ebay sites, you can still see that many photos of the cartridge boxes and most photos of the bottle labels don't have the ink names on them.

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Looks sort of like Herbin Diabolo Menthe, maybe a bit greener.

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