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Saitama Ink - Kawagoe kura no machi
Papier Platz is one of the 713 brands in Inktend's built-in ink catalog.
Paper & pairing
Blues and navies are the most broadly "safe" fountain pen colors — legible, professional, and unlikely to raise eyebrows in an office. This ink will behave predictably on most fountain-pen-friendly paper. Cheap, highly absorbent paper (standard copier paper) will dull any ink's saturation and can cause feathering or bleed-through with wetter nibs.
About Papier Platz
Papier Platz is a Japanese stationery brand of Cres Co., Ltd., a company established in December 1977 and based in Saitama City. The brand makes design-focused stationery including miniature masking tapes, glass pens and the award-winning "Saitama ink" (彩玉ink) line of colored inks, and also produces regional collaboration goods. Its glass pen won a 2023 Saitama New Product Award.
Storing and using the bottle
Bottled fountain pen ink has an effectively long shelf life when kept capped and out of direct sunlight — most inks remain usable for years. The main risk isn't the ink spoiling, it's a pen sitting inked and unused for weeks: that's what causes clogs, not the ink's age.
Frequently asked questions
Similar shades By colour distance
Color shown is a close digital approximation of a typical swatch, not a calibrated color match.