Storing Ink After Mixing?

[marithevda]

Hello there! I'm new to this forum so don't shoot me if I'm posting in the wrong place.

I've recently started mixing ink (Rohrer & Klingner's Alt-Goldgrün and Verdigris) and I was wondering what the best way is to store it. Just a glass bottle of some kind? And how long can mixed ink be stored after mixing?

Thanks!!!

[Charles Skinner]

I, too, am fairly new to "ink mixing." I have some good ones and some that were "pour outs!" As for "storing" the ink mixture," I had a few empty ink bottles around the house and did not know what to do with them until I started mixing. Also, I bought some small glass bottles on e-bay. Wish I could tell you how I did it, but have forgotten. Perhaps, google "small glass bottles for sale," or something like that. I bought small bottles since my mixtures fill only one part of my "ink sickness!" More, of course, in regular bottles that they came in. I would be interested to know if you found some small glass bottles. C. S.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I went to the nearest supermarket that sells things for the house and bought the tiniest jar I could find.

 

 

As for storing, I'm pretty sure I have a read a posto from inkstainedtruth saying that it's best to wait 2-3 days before inking a pen up with a mixture in order to check on clumping.

[Chrissy]

I tend to use emptied and cleaned out ink bottles as I have plenty of them.

 

I don't see why it wouldn't keep as long as any other inks.

[FrMark]

For small amounts scintillation vials might be a good solution. They hold 20 ml, have screw caps and come in a flat tray/box of 100.