Ink Review: Rohrer & Klingner sketchINK Jule

**Chrissy** · February 27th, 2019, 09:13 AM

Rohrer & Klingner Leipzig-Co. makes many excellent quality inks, and has been making inks and more in Germany since 1892. A renowned ink maker that doesn’t seem to be mentioned as much as some others.

Today I’m reviewing one of Rohrer & Klingner’s Sketch Inks: Jule. These sketch inks are nano-pigmented inks, so the usual warnings about not leaving them in your unused pens for long periods, and exercising good pen hygiene should be followed.

The first thing I noticed about Jule is that it is an unusual colour. It’s something like a pink/purple/brown earth type colour. It’s quite attractively different. I’ve seen mushroom gills in this colour, and that’s the nearest description I could think of to the ink colour. I really enjoyed writing and trying to sketch with it. It wrote with very tight, crisp lines, as is common with pigmented inks, and it dried quickly. It's lightfast. It’s also completely waterproof when dry, but while wet can be mixed with water to make a really good wash onto the paper. For sketching those are excellent qualities.

I didn’t have any inks that were a similar colour to Jule. I thought KWZ Brown-Pink would be the closest, but that is much pinker.

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Start-up: Immediate.
Flow Rate: Excellent - neither wet nor dry.
Lubrication: Excellent - felt really smooth across the page.
Saturation: Quite a saturated ink.
Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Not seen on any paper I used.
Show-Through/Bleed-through: Slight show through seen on one or two of the papers I used including Clairefontaine Triomphe.
Nib Dry-out: Not noticed.
Clogging: Not seen.
Nib Creep / “Crud”: Not seen, even after several days in the pen.
Staining (pen): Didn’t stain my sections or converters.
Staining (hands): Washed off easily.
Water resistance: A completely waterproof ink.

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