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2. India ink - Wikipedia

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   Example of India ink on paper, Zeedijk by Gustaaf Sorel, (1939) 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 ...

3. Black - Wikipedia

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   Black ink, invented in China, was traditionally used in the Middle Ages for writing, for the simple reason that black was the darkest color and therefore provided the greatest contrast with white paper or parchment, making it the easiest color to read.

4. Ink - Wikipedia

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   When first put to paper, this ink is bluish-black. Over time it fades to a dull brown. Scribes in medieval Europe (about AD 800 to 1500) wrote principally on parchment or vellum. One 12th century ink recipe called for hawthorn branches to be cut in the spring and left to dry. Then the bark was pounded from the branches and soaked in water for ...

5. Ink wash painting - Wikipedia

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   1. suibokuga. 2. sumie. Ink wash painting ( simplified Chinese: 水墨画; traditional Chinese: 水墨畫; pinyin: shuǐmòhuà ); is a type of Chinese ink brush painting which uses washes of black ink, such as that used in East Asian calligraphy, in different concentrations.

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. Other percentages are used to achieve specific results, for ...