Originally Posted by
bunnspecial
FWIW, I'm not sure if this is known definitively but my own testing and the experience/opinions of others points toward this being an iron gall ink...
I can see why you think it is, and I love Iron Gall inks but:
I see not the slightest color change on it while drying.
Even I saw others claiming it, it does not smell like an IG ink to me.
When washed IG inks often leave only the grey IG component (dye is washed out), Benitoite gets lighter but mainly keep it‘s color.
Performance on poor paper is good but not on ESRI level, but this is also no proof as e.g. many of the KWZ IG inks perform really bad on poor paper (for me KWZ was a huge disappointment on this aspect).
All the above is no proof, but here comes the killer argument.
I read that users contacted Lamy and asked if it contains an IG part, and Lamy stated that Benitoite is no IG ink.
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