Lamy Vibrant Pink Le 2018

[visvamitra]

Lamy doesn't need introduction on this board. However as I enjoy writing introductions, here we go. Lamy was created by Josef Lamy who was a German export and branch manager for Parker until 1930, when Parker left the German market due to unsuccessful sales of its Duofold.

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Lamy started his own company by acquiring the pen manufacturer Orthos Füllfederhalter-Fabrik producing celluloid pens. For quite few years they were selling conservative looking pens stylised after Pelinan and Montblanc pens.

However in 1966 they invited industrial designer Gerd A. Müller to create their new flagship product - Lamy 2000, a classic Bauhaus-inspired design that has remained in production ever since 1966 with no significant change. This pen set the tone for all Lamys to come: forward-looking, innovative design, excellent quality and writing performance. Lamy 2000 is one of my all - time favourite pens. With time I even came to like Lamy Al-Star that looked like an ugly duckling for me when I first saw it.

Basically I love their pens. However I wasn't so fond of their inks. They're not bad, they're sold in practical and functional bottle yet the colors really aren't mesmerizing. ANyway the inks are sold in bottle that provides a roll of blotter tape used to clean the pen after filling, or to blot writing. It is specially shaped with a wide neck and a basin to collect ink to aid filling when close to empty.

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They can also be purchased in cartridges.

It seems that lately Lamy came to conclusion they can make money on special edition inks that are introduced together with limited edition Al-Stars and Safaris. That's good, especially that new colors (Copper Orange and Neon Lime) stand out from their rather conservative and - let's face it - boring ink line-up.

Then, last two years, they've made something magical. Lamy Dark Lilac was and is a real stunner. It's one my all time favorite inks. Lamy Petrol isn't too shabby either.

I was hoping that in 2018 Lamy will deliver once again.

I'm rather disappointed.

Ink splash

Vibrant Pink is new addition to Lamy LE inks line. As it's LE ink you need to decide fast whether you like it or not because once it's gone, it's gone. It's as simple as that.

Vibrant Pink is pink. While some people claim that using pink ink isn't a crime, I'm not fully convinced they're right.

The color is saturated and quite deep, the ink flows nicely and lubricates the nib in satisfying way.

It's wet ink, probably not as wet as, say, J. Herbin inks, but if you like free-flowing inks, it shouldn't disappoint you. I should try it in a very dry pen but I don't have one at the moment. Level of saturation is satisfying but not crazily intense or overhelming. There's some shading - I guess that in a right pen it can be quite intense. I haven't observed any feathering even on Moleskine (a synonyme of crappy paper). Some bleedthrough was experienced only on Moleskine (crappy paper).

Drying time is reasonable (15-20 secs on Rhodia and alikes).

Some people may have issue with lack of full water resistance but for me water resistance isn't most important thing when it comes to choosing inks. Whether it fades or not, I'll know in half a year.

It seems some tiny gold colored particles were used to create this ink. They don't clog the feed.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Software ID

Color range

Field Notes, Parker Sonnet, medium nib

Rhodia, Lamy Safari, fine nib

Tomoe River, Parker Sonnet, medium nib

Water Resistance

[lapis]

Thanks for your good review as always and more yet, your dispelling of Lamy's shabbiness in regard to their whole idea of LE inks, not to mention their neglect and/or repulsion to offer LEs in bottled form to their own folks.

I too find this colour nauseating but it'll definitely be something for Amber. Amber, whip open your safe with the SQL books in it!

[inkstainedruth]

I just picked up a bottle of it at the Baltimore/Washington Pen Show. But I waited till I could see what it looked like (Vanness Pens very kindly put out a display in the hallway with cheap pens filler with a bunch of different inks, including that, some of the new Monteverde lines, and the new PenBBS inks). I did NOT, however, get one of the Vibrant Pink al-Stars.... The color was too weird a pink for me (as opposed to the pink Safaris from a few years ago -- those pens just looked cheesy but didn't give me a negative visceral reaction to seeing them the way the Vibrant Pink al-Star did...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Intensity]

I’m the opposite—I want the pen, but the ink color is meh.

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Great review!

[grip-goode]

Thanks for the review!

 

I have this ink, and I can report similar experience. It's well behaved on the several types of paper I've tried it on (crummy office copy paper to Rhodia).

[chromantic]

​I have to say that you've managed to make the color itself looks nicer than it does in other reviews but still gonna pass on this.

[Honeybadgers]

I was hoping it'd be like yama budo. But it's not. at all.

[amberleadavis]

  On 3/3/2018 at 1:13 PM, lapis said:

Thanks for your good review as always and more yet, your dispelling of Lamy's shabbiness in regard to their whole idea of LE inks, not to mention their neglect and/or repulsion to offer LEs in bottled form to their own folks.

I too find this colour nauseating but it'll definitely be something for Amber. Amber, whip open your safe with the SQL books in it!

 

 

I got my bottle from Dromgoole's and I love it.

[fireant]

Thank you for this review. I like the shading of this ink.

[Gazcom]

Thanks for the wonderful review (as always).

 

Too much girlish for my taste. Don't know if I'll add it to my collection...

[DrDebG]

I like "pinkish" inks, but somehow this color doesn't agree with me. I like pinks with character, and this just doesn't seem to have it.

[cleosmama]

I'm currently using a cartridge of this in my Lamy Vibrant Pink pen, but I find the color to be far less "vibrant" than I've seen in any sample. I much prefer the Emily Dickinson pink that Organics Studio did some years ago.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Nice vibrant color as delivered. It would look nice as titles or editing notes in lieu of a vibrant red or orange.

[fireant]

I like it and the shading is amazing not to mention that sheen! Thank you for the fantastic review!

[dkatiepowellart]

I won this ink. I'm not impressed by Lamy inks in general, but this was such a dud. I have pushed it against some amazing pinks and it falls flat.

[mehandiratta]

Well I do like this ink...

Some inks gain fandom after few years ..

I am sure after few years it might gain some love