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2. Iron gall ink - Wikipedia

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   Iron gall ink (also known as common ink, standard ink, oak gall ink or iron gall nut ink) is a purple-black or brown-black ink made from iron salts and tannic acids from vegetable sources. It was the standard ink formulation used in Europe for the 1400-year period between the 5th and 19th centuries, remained in widespread use well into the 20th ...

3. 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 ...

4. History of printing - Wikipedia

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   The final smooth wipe is usually done by hand, sometimes with the aid of newspaper or old public phone book pages, leaving ink only in the incisions. A damp piece of paper is placed on top and the plate and paper are run through a printing press that, through pressure, transfers the ink from the recesses of the plate to the paper.

5. India ink - Wikipedia

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   India ink ( British English: Indian ink; [1] 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. Compared to other inks, such as the iron gall ink ...

6. Ink cartridge - Wikipedia

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   Ink cartridge. Two cartridges (one with black ink (a third-party type HP 15-compatible cartridge), one with colored inks (an original type HP 17 tri-color cartridge)) installed in an HP inkjet printer. An ink cartridge or inkjet cartridge is the component of an inkjet printer that contains the ink to be deposited onto paper during printing. [1]

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 ...