Wancher Chocolate

January 7, 2017

There's a pen/stationary store in Japan named Engeika, or something like that. They have a small line of inks under their own brand "Wancher". Like some others I received a sample of a new color Chocolate. visvamitra recently reviewed it as well. This isn't a bad ink at all, but not anything special. It has a milk chocolate kind of look to it that didn't get captured by the images. It has some water resistance which surprised me. It's not like Noodler's water resistant or waterproof inks, though the image looks good some ink was lost.

The dye composition of the ink is interesting: purple, green, turquoise.

On Tomoe River there was some drying problems with punctuation; even after several minutes, they'd still smear. I hadn't really encountered that before.

No staining on the pen in the ink window.

So if you are in Japan, or ordering from this shop, it may be worth giving the ink a try as it's not that expensive. But I'm not sure whether it's worth it to go out of your way to get some.

Pen: Pelikan M200 (M-steel)

Papers: MvL=Mohawk via Linen, TR=Tomoe River, Hij=Hammermill 28 lb inkjet, Rhodia=Rhodia 90g ivory.

Camera: iPhone 7