www.pendemonium.com, "Inks and Refills," "Pelikan."

I could imagine a few circumstances, but the truth is probably more interesting.

Dillon, I've read your amusingly hyperbolic but basically credible comment recently about needing to order a huge amount of ink. Is it for school, for testing pens and pen parts, for journals or sketchbooks, or something else I'm not experienced enough to think of?

I wonder who really needs 250ml of ink unless they're writing a book or changing ink every single day. I can hardly finish up 10% of my bottles if I don't ink trade.

I have Tarzanite filled on my M200 and no matter how much I write, there's always that much ink left in the pen.

I was thinking about this in one of the other posts. My thoughts were for pen clubs to buy and have refills for the members. Of course it would all depend on what colors were available. I guess you would have some people who wouldn't need any but I suppose that You could get quite a few people who would like to get a cheap refill now and then.

Folks, unlike in the U.S., where an FP is a private fancy nowadays, in Europe and elsewhere the FP is a common tool and regularly used in schools. So e.g. the educational system can be in need of larger ink quantities sometimes.

Hi,

I really use a lot of ink, but not Private Reserve or Noodlers. (I use my plunger pen and Hero for that)

I will be buying a bottle to fill the inkwell on my desk which I use to test pens.

Dillon

Ah, so European schools provide ink? Public, private or both? That was one of the circumstances I imagined.

I could also imagine an office (business, professional, government, school administration, etc.) ordering large bottles of ink, but it would have to be for uses where fraud resistance were not required or else waterproofness were not desired.

No, no they don't do it in general nowadays (if they would, they'd surely order barrelwise ), but there may be still special circumstances (drawing classes, teachers order, etc.).

This guy said he orders them weekly.





His frend is waiting on the 55gal drums to be available before he commits. In the mean time he just hangs his pens outside.

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You asked for it!

Good one!

I read somewhere that Airbrush T-shirt artists use Noodlers in big jug sizes. There was also a doctor who bought more than a dozen bottles of Noodlers in fear that the supply would run out...

Perhaps fountain pen stores buy the larger lots? Nibmeisters?

Back in grammar school I saw my first one quart bottle of Shaeffer's Skrip in the Fourth Grade. The teachers would refill their two ounce bottles that they kept on their desks from the big bottles.

I know that blue/black was used a lot in my grammar school, maybe exclusively. And I think that the big bottles still had the little tip well up at the top. Oh, that would be a lot of ink.

I've contemplated buying those large bottles of Pelikan Brilliant Black, but I know that I'd need to find a suitable glass bottle to actually store the ink in since the water, and maybe more, would evaporate through plastic pretty quickly.