Ink Review: Kaweco Palm Green

[Chrissy]

This is Kaweco Palm Green ink that I used in the Kaweco Dia2 when I tested and reviewed it. You can find the pen review Here

I used a Palm Green cartridge in the Dia2 and it was fitted with a two-tone 14ct gold nib that Kaweco kindly sent me to review with the chrome trim Dia2. This is a M nib, but it turned out to be surprisingly stubbish. It wrote really smoothly with Palm Green ink.

Palm Green is a really attractive green shade that compares well against the very popular Diamine Sherwood Green. It is a really well behaved ink and I can highly recommend it as a top quality ink.

You might still find some older bottles of Kaweco Palm Green ink. The two inks are a very similar colour. However, you can tell if you have one of the newer bottles or packs of cartridges because the name of the ink is now printed on the bottle labels or cartridge packs. Kaweco cartridges are also now impressed with their brand name.

This ink isn't waterproof, but is slightly water resistant. It doesn't stain fingers. Sorry but I forgot to do the water test on the form before I scanned it. So I did it after scanning.

Kaweco ink is made in Austria. It is readily available in 30ml bottles or packs containing 6 standard international sized cartridges.

[lgsoltek]

So there are two versions of them? How are they different?

Mine comes only in the bottle, no box. There's no name on the bottle either.

[grainweevil]

Thanks for the review, Chrissy. I tried this in cartridge form and really liked it - neither too blue nor too yellow as you say, nicely lubricated feel, shading - and would have bought a bottle. But at a UK price of nearly 42 pence a ml in a mundane Pelikan-a-like bottle, I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. So my feelings could be summed up as: nice ink, pity it's so over-priced.

 

Incidentally, my box of cartridges (impressed with "Kaweco") says "Made in Austria" rather than Germany. I thought I read a suggestion somewhere that they might be by whoever was behind the discontinued Caran d'Ache inks, but I might well be mis-remembering.

[jmccarty3]

Aren't Montblanc inks made in Austria?

[Chrissy]

So there are two versions of them? How are they different?

Mine comes only in the bottle, no box. There's no name on the bottle either.

 

 

Yes there are old and new versions around. The bottles come in see through plastic packs like Sheaffer ink bottles have. Only the cartridges come in cardboard packs or boxes. I edited my post slightly to make that more clear.

 

All of the new inks have their ink name on them, either on the bottle label or on the cartridge pack.

 

The older ones don't have the ink name on them. So if you have a bottle of Palm Green and it doesn't have Palm Green on the label, then it's the previous version. It makes little difference though, as they aren't very different.

[Chrissy]

Thanks for the review, Chrissy. I tried this in cartridge form and really liked it - neither too blue nor too yellow as you say, nicely lubricated feel, shading - and would have bought a bottle. But at a UK price of nearly 42 pence a ml in a mundane Pelikan-a-like bottle, I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. So my feelings could be summed up as: nice ink, pity it's so over-priced.

 

Incidentally, my box of cartridges (impressed with "Kaweco") says "Made in Austria" rather than Germany. I thought I read a suggestion somewhere that they might be by whoever was behind the discontinued Caran d'Ache inks, but I might well be mis-remembering.

 

You're welcome.

 

I have rechecked my cartridge packs and bottles. Amazingly, my bottles all say Made in Germany, while my cartridge packs all say Made in Austria. My best guess is that the ink is made in Austria, and the bottles may be made in Germany.

 

I have also heard of the suggestion to which you refer.

[Chrissy]

Aren't Montblanc inks made in Austria?

 

Yes they are.

[Bo Bo Olson]

A green-green ink, Seems close to R&K Verdura which beat MB Irish green by a head and 4001 by a neck....having looked at three reviews it is a shading green-green ink.

 

Kaweco just showed up in my B&M so.....live, I have an interest I'd not had just on the net.

In I have 2 bottles of Verdura, most of a full bottle of the MB and 1 1/4th bottle of 4001...

 

I do have an interest in buying smaller amounts (therefor cartridges***) of ink with 50 bottles, and four inks of Kaweco has interested me already. As pointed out at E-9.90 is not the cheapest bottle of 30ml ink around......do remember some of the 35 ml DA ink bottles are more expensive.....from 9 to 14E depending on which DA ink it is.

DA is the only ink company I know of with different costs of the same size bottles.

 

 

*** I can always needle load my Pelikans or Gehas.