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KWZI is polish ink manufacture that gained popularity by reintroducing safe iron gall inks on the market. At the moment KWZ Ink offers wide variety of standard and iron-gall inks.



Recently Konrad and Agnieszka crafted three new inks named after places in Poland:



1. Sen o Warszawie (A Dream of Warsaw)


2. Spacer nad Wisłą (Walk along Vistula)


3. Wspomnienie znad Bałtyku (Baltic memories)



I think it's cool idea to have inks named after places (like Super 5 series of pigmented inks named after European cities). The inks come in usual KWZI glass bottles, but the etiquettes were painted with an ink by one of Polish fountain pen boards user. Additionally, KWZI printed postcards with the etiquettes.




Bottle



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Postcard



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Ink Splash (on Tomoe River to show sheen)



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Sen o Warszawie is a heavily saturated ink that's almost black. As you see on the postcard and some of the scans it's actually very dark blue/black but in some pens it'll look almost black. The ink has some sheen sheen on Tomoe River paper, so if it's up your alley, you'll enjoy this one. The flow and level of lubrication are good, although it has to be mentioned that this ink tends to dry fast if you leave the pen uncapped. It caused some hard starts in Baoer after not using it for a day, however, no such thing was observed in Kaweco.




Drops of ink on kitchen towel




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Chromatography



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Color ID



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Color range



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Fabriano, Baoer 388, fine nib




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Rhodia, Baoer 388, fine nib



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Tomoe River, Visconti van Gogh, fine nib




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Midori,Hero 5028, stub 1.9




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Water resistance



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This was the review from you that I was waiting for :) Thank you.

Looks like an early Christmas prezzie might be in order :wub:

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This one is a maybe. Thanks for the review.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Someone (I will not tell names :D ) hooked me up at Kobe Kana Cho midnight blue. I see you also had a review of that one. My impression is this inks are pretty close to each other?

But that is by judging from screen , which is always different from paper. What is your opinion?

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Thank for the review Vis, another impressive one by Konrad. I love the color.

Now the question: has this ink that characteristic smell as well?.

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I love the label and the concept. Thank you for another great review.

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

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