Best Kwz Ink ?

[noddle]

IG Red #3 - goes down vibrant red and dries to a dark wine.

[whichwatch]

This may not help you, but I LOVE the LE Chicago Blue ink being sold in limited quantities exclusively at the Chicago Pen Show. Once it's gone, there will be no more!

[Moonshae]

Go with whatever color you like! This kind of question is like asking, "Whose favorite color is the best?" Eventually, all KWZ inks will be listed here and you'll be back where you started.

 

Consider narrowing down to a color family you like, then see what opinions you get. If you like reds and oranges, then you won't get recommendations for blues and greens.

[white_lotus]

Or simply order some samples in a color family you like. Vanness offers a 4 ml sample for a measly $2.00. Get 5 or 6, play around with them. Surely there'll be some that you like, which really is the most important criteria for you.

[HalloweenHJB]

#1: MONARCH.

#2: El Dorado.

 

But I'm partial to golds and golden browns.

[inkstainedruth]

It's kind of a toss up for the IG inks of which I like best: IG Blue Black, IG Blue #3, or IG Violet #3, with iG Mandarian coming in a close fourth.

For the standard inks I really like Grey Plum and Green Gold #2 so far (but there are a lot I haven't tried yet, like Honey and Grey Lux).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[KKay]

Grapefruit and Maroon. I have only tried a limited few though, so far.

[eharriett]

THIEF'S RED!

THIEF'S RED!

THIEF'S RED!

 

I was on a quest to find my ideal ink colors a few months ago if I wanted a daily writer ink. Went through about 30+ samples of reds before, of all things, Vanness, as per their custom, sent me a free sample of Thief's Red. Their freebie was the red I was looking for! Got a bottle, and never looked back. Funny thing was, I thought I had my Red of choice in Sheaffer Red. But as soon as I tried the KWZ, I knew it was the winner.

 

Coincidentally, thanks to InkJournal's InkFlight last month, I may have also found my ideal Green, which has been lacking to this point as well: KWZ Menthol Green. Gotta get a bottle of that next.

 

And I have to figure out a way to begin thinning my ink sample and ink bottle collection.

[mmg122]

Cherry

Honey

Aztec Gold - my new favorite

 

Runners up...Mandarin, Monarch, El Dorado

Edited May 7, 2017 by mmg122

[Chrissy]

I bought Maroon but have never used it as it looks very much like several other dark reds that I have. I wish I had bought Honey or Brown Pink instead.

[migo984]

I don't think there's a "best" KWZ & it's difficult to pick a favourite. Honey is a great colour & shades beautifully; an almost permanent partner for my Pelikan M250 Amber. Fontoplumo Monarch is very good indeed, as are standard Green Gold, Grey Plum, Brown Pink & Grapefruit.

[chromantic]

Since my initial response (Grapefruit), I've also purchased Brown Pink and Maroon - BP I thought was OK but Maroon is the cat's pajamas.

 

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Edited May 7, 2017 by chromantic

[ethernautrix]

Azure #2

Flame Red

Aztec Gold

 

And I thoughtlessly gave my Grapefruit and Green Gold #2 samples (two more favorites) to a Pen Posse pal recently. Of course, I don't regret sharing the KWZI love. (But why didn't I bring all the samples I had? That was dumb.)

 

Anyway, Grapefruit and Green Gold #2 are on the list of KWZ Inks to order. I'd wanted to attend Poland Pen Show this weekend, but I JUST returned from visiting family and had a copyedit job to finish and...ugh... so I didn't get to see more of the inks.

 

(The only reason I'm hesitating on Grapefruit is that I have and love Flame Red, so that's my "red" ink.) (Yes, I'm one of those weirdos that want only one ink of a color, i.e., one red, one brown, one black, one green, one blue.... Well, who can have only one blue? That's the exception.)

[bemon]

My favorite is Cherry.

I've got two KWZ inks, Cherry and Azure #4. They're both deliciously vibrant, provide great lubrication and even shade well if that's your thing. My only complaint is no matter what pen I put them in they seem to cause dry starting in otherwise well behaved pens. Have you found this to be true?

[HalloweenHJB]

I've got two KWZ inks, Cherry and Azure #4. They're both deliciously vibrant, provide great lubrication and even shade well if that's your thing. My only complaint is no matter what pen I put them in they seem to cause dry starting in otherwise well behaved pens. Have you found this to be true?

 

 

I'm not sure if I understand. You say that they "provide great lubrication," but then cause pens to have hard starts. Those two don't seem to go together, if you see what I mean. In my experience, lubricated inks (Sailor, for example) normally give you nice, smooth starts in most pens.

 

In any case, I have found KWZ inks on the drier side —I imagine due to the beautiful richness and saturation. With inks like that, I always add a touch of lubrication (greatly diluted PhotoFlo), and then the inks work perfectly in any pen.

Edited May 26, 2017 by HalloweenHJB

[bemon]

 

 

I'm not sure if I understand. You say that they "provide great lubrication," but then cause pens to have hard starts. Those two don't seem to go together, if you see what I mean. In my experience, lubricated inks (Sailor, for example) normally give you nice, smooth starts in most pens.

 

In any case, I have found KWZ inks on the drier side —I imagine due to the beautiful richness and saturation. With inks like that, I always add a touch of lubrication (greatly diluted PhotoFlo), and then the inks work perfectly in any pen.

Yeah, I agree. But there you have it- an ink that behaves well once it gets running, but is still a fussy starter. In four different and otherwise well behaved pens. How do you add PhotoFlo? Do you mix your solution in an ink well before you fill you pen? It's an idea I'd like to learn more about.

[white_lotus]

I haven't notice any of my KWZ inks to be hard starters. Whether an ink has hard starts depends on so many factors. It's very difficult to even make comparisons in such matters. Since you don't mention what inks you are comparing against KWZ inks, no one else has a basis for the comparison. How long the pens go unused until there is a hard start? Is the pen capped or not in between?

 

In my pens (Edisons and Pelikans) I don't find KWZ inks to be dry or even on the dry side. But there could be certain specific inks in their line that might be considered drier. I don't have every KWZ ink, so there could be one's with such behavior.