Want To Try 1000 Inks?

[mke]

If yes, next week starts an ink exhibition at Itoya in Tokyo.

 

Just for fun, I run the list of companies from which ink is displayed through Google Translate.

Basically, it is impressive what these machine translation systems are able to do. Some translations are funny. Can you find Lamy and Tacchia?

 

That came out:

 

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MKE

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Edited January 19, 2020 by mke

[usk15]

Touch-A - Taccia

Rummy - Lamy

 

Elban - Laban?

 

Roller & Cleaner - Rohrer & Klingner

[mke]

Elban and Jack Elvan are certainly Jacques Herbin, the list contains doubles.

Edited January 19, 2020 by mke

[penzel_washinkton]

Wow, I love the Alt-Goldgrun ink from the famed company Roller & Cleaner.

 

Don't forget the Colors of the Earth from Callan Dash.

[mke]

Japanese are obsessed with inks: it even enters the mainstream newspapers:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2019/10/12/lifestyle/mix-blend-tokyo-invent-color-ink/

 

And finally, today, with the help of some friends who went to the Itoya event I got the Tokyo Limited Edition Iroshizuku ink set - actually two sets:

Murasaki Edo

Fukagawa Nezu

Shimbashi Iro

 

Here a link to someone's page: https://imgur.com/fpngallery/uSEXX

Edited January 21, 2020 by mke

[lgsoltek]

Elban and Jack Elvan are certainly Jacques Herbin, the list contains doubles.

 

I think J. Herbin and Jacques Herbin are considered as two separate brands.

[mke]

> J. Herbin and Jacques Herbin are considered as two separate brands

 

Look at the names on the boxes of the same product - the 1670 inks. Perhaps they switched from JHerbin to Jacques Herbin????

https://www.jherbin.com/1670.html

 

Edited January 21, 2020 by mke

[lgsoltek]

> J. Herbin and Jacques Herbin are considered as two separate brands

 

Look at the names on the boxes of the same product - the 1670 inks. Perhaps they switched from JHerbin to Jacques Herbin????

https://www.jherbin.com/1670.html

 

 

J. Herbin still exists but it's like a "lower-end" line, while Jacques Herbin is more high-end, like Faber-Castell vs Graf von Faber-Castell.

 

As for the shimmering inks like Caroube de Chypre, they've all been moved to the luxury line.

Edited January 21, 2020 by Lgsoltek

[Paul-in-SF]

Interesting to me on this list are the sometimes difficult names that Google Translate got exactly right, such as Faber Castell (faabaa casutelu) and Uffizi Strozzi (ufuitsi sutorottsi). As if those brands have a standardized katakana transliteration that the machine translator can recognize.

[sombrueil]

So what is Eye Paper?

 

Band name?

Edited February 9, 2020 by sombrueil

[mke]

Ipaper is a Taiwanese ink maker.

Example: https://www.pen-house.net/category/IPAPER/

[rluka]

Color Bath must be selling inks in gallons, not ml

 

and can't shake the image Lartisan Pastorie is a cheese and milk making branch of L'Artisan Pastellier.

Edited February 11, 2020 by rluka

[ErrantSmudge]

The San Francisco Pen Show offers something similar each year. Throughout the show are ink sampling tables, each loaded with about 40 or so inks in tester pens for you to try. I don't know the exact number of inks available, but it goes into the hundreds.