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  2. India ink - Wikipedia

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    India ink (British English: Indian ink; also Chinese ink) is a simple black or coloured ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing and outlining, especially when inking comic books and comic strips. India ink is also used in medical applications.

  3. Ink wash painting - Wikipedia

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    If one uses traditional paper, the idea of an "ink wash" refers to a wet-on-wet technique, applying black ink to paper where a lighter ink has already been applied, or by quickly manipulating watery diluted ink once it has been applied to the paper by using a very large brush.

  4. Ink - Wikipedia

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    Ink is a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colorant, such as a dye or pigment, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, reed pen, or quill.

  5. Black - Wikipedia

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    Black is the most common ink color used for printing books, newspapers and documents, as it provides the highest contrast with white paper and thus is the easiest color to read.

  6. CMYK color model - Wikipedia

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    In the CMYK model, it is the opposite: white is the natural color of the paper or other background, black results from a full combination of colored inks. To save cost on ink, and to produce deeper black tones, unsaturated and dark colors are produced by using black ink instead of or in addition to the combination of cyan, magenta, and yellow.

  7. Rich black - Wikipedia

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    Rich black, in printing, is an ink mixture of solid black over one or more of the other CMYK colors, [1] resulting in a darker tone than black ink alone generates in a printing process. [2] [3] A typical rich black mixture might be 100% black, 50% of each of the other three inks.

  8. History of printing - Wikipedia

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    Some fifty pieces of medieval Arabic blockprinting known as tarsh have been found in Egypt printed between 900 and 1300 in black ink on paper.

  9. Paper and ink testing - Wikipedia

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    Paper and ink testing Tests for paper and ink interaction. A variety of tests are used to determine ink and paper and paperboard quality, and to measure their interactions. They are necessary to balance print quality, cost, and wear on the press. Some of the important paper and ink tests are listed here:

  10. Inkjet paper - Wikipedia

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    Paper for inkjet and laser printers in a store. Inkjet paper is a special fine paper designed for inkjet printers, typically classified by its weight, brightness and smoothness, and sometimes by its opacity.

  11. Ink ribbon - Wikipedia

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    Ink ribbon. A typewriter ribbon with black ink in a mechanical typewriter. An ink ribbon or inked ribbon is an expendable assembly serving the function of transferring pigment to paper in various devices for impact printing. Since such assemblies were first widely used on typewriters, they were often called typewriter ribbons, but ink ribbons ...