Rohrer & Klingner Lilly Sketch Ink

[visvamitra]

 

Rohrer&Klingner produces wonderful inks. I think it's the company that's criminally underrated in fountain pen afficionados circles.

sketchINK® is a range of 10 inks for fountain pens. They are - as most pigment inks - exceptionally waterproof and lightfast.

R&K uses nano pigments to enable an optimal ink flow. However, it has to be said that waterproof inks can cause clotting in fountain pens. Therefore it's reasonable to clean pens filled with it regularly.

I bought two of these inks Lilly and Emma. Both are nice and behave fairly well for a pigment ink.

Bottle

The inks are sold in 50 ml glass bottle. While it's not as nice as some ink bottles are, it's practical.

Ink Splash

The ink feels well lubricated and flows well. I haven't tried it in drier nib, however it cooperates with this stub flawlessly. I had no problems with starting to write after having the pen unused for a week. I haven't experienced any clogging or drying on the nib. On the other hand, so far I've been using this ink only in one fountain pen so my experience is limited.

Drops of ink on kitchen towel

Color ID

Color range

Copy paper, Perun Custom fountain pen, stub 1.1

Fabriano, Perun Custom fountain pen, stub 1.1

Rhodia, Perun Custom fountain pen, stub 1.1

Water resistance

Fully water resistant. I'll add some photo later.

 

[lgsoltek]

I love R&K inks so I’m excited about these new releases! Thank you Vis for the review and the news! I wonder if these are the same kind of pigmented inks as the ones they made for Super5.

 

Come to me Vroni!

[visvamitra]

I may invite Carmen and Jule to my household.

[lgsoltek]

I may invite Carmen and Jule to my household.

What about Klara?

[visvamitra]

Heh, good one.

[Venemo]

Where do you buy these sketching inks? I have never heard of them.

 

The color looks nice, it is actually very similar to Rohrer & Klingner Sepia. What do you think?

[visvamitra]

I bought them at La Couronne du Comte.

[titevm]

Very cool review and ink! Thnaks

I'll wait for Carmen's invitation.

[Venemo]

How is the drying time?

And one more thing: can you please also show us a sample of "Emma"? Thank you!

Edited December 28, 2017 by Venemo

[crahptacular]

I'm really happy to see you reviewing these! They intrigued me, but I have too many inks to go through at the moment to try them just yet.Lucky for me, the two you got were two of the ones I wanted reviews of most. Thanks very much for this

[visvamitra]

@Venemo - I'll post Emma review today. Drying time is really good (5 secs on absorbent papers, slightly longer on Rhodia)

Edited December 29, 2017 by visvamitra

[Jan2016]

Thank you for the reviews~!

[grainweevil]

I wonder if these are the same kind of pigmented inks as the ones they made for Super5.

 

The very wondering I was doing, too.

 

Thanks for the review, Vis!