Wancher Imari Blue

[visvamitra]

Wancher is a brand offered by Engeika in his shop. First five inks were introduced few years ago and names as a Silk Road series.

Packaging

The inks come in few kind of bottles. The one I have is a simple, cheaply looking 100 ml bottle. It's not bas as long as tehre's more than half of it. When the ink level decreases it becomes harder to fill a converter pen - the neck is too long and when you want to insert nib and feed into ink you'll have to make your hands disrty. Also some converters and nib/feed assemblies are simply too short for this bottle.

Imari Blue isn't particularly exciting but it's good ink. If you look for everyday, cheap blue ink you may consider adding it to your order. Whie I'm not crazy about the color, behavior is very good.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Color ID

Color range

Tomoe River, Jinhao 159, medium nib

Leuchtturm 1917, Pelikan 205, medium

No name copy paper, Pelikan M205, medium

Rhodia, Pelikan M205, medium

Water resistance

[Chrissy]

Thanks for the review. Whose ink do you think it is? Maybe Sailor Blue?

[visvamitra]

They lack lubricity typical for Sailor inks. I have no idea who makes these inks for Wancher, however I suspect they use some chinese sources (as they do with pens they rename to Wancher).

[Chrissy]

OK, so it's a Chinese ink brand then. Thanks.

[Sandy1]

Hi,

 

Thanks for your Review.

 

I have a bottle from years ago production. I thought / think the colour and overall appearance is gracious, with shading potential, but the dry time was far too long - even though I most often work on single sheets that can be clipped to a line for drying in the breeze.

 

Before my bottle runs dry, I shall order another.

 

Bye,

S1

[amberleadavis]

Thank you for the review.