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Thanks for mentioning this. I did see them and am considering trying them one day. They don't seem to have sample bottles though. Pity.

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They don't seem to have sample bottles though. Pity.

 

Which brands do, though? Maybe I just need to get out more, so to speak, but the only one that comes to mind is Ferris Wheel Press with its Ink Charger sets, each containing 5ml vials of three different colours. Pilot offers Iroshizuku inks in 15ml bottles (both individually and in sets), Jacques Herbin as well in sets of five 15ml bottles, but I tend to think of those as rather more than mere samples; I haven't even finished a single 15ml bottle of Pilot Iroshizuku, and I've even been giving away 0.75ml samples (intended to be equivalent to a single international standard short cartridge's, or the "typical" ink converter's, volume as a de facto measure of a "full fill") from those bottles.

 

Perhaps you could organise what is effectively a group-buy: it takes $2.30 to send a large letter of up to 125g domestically these days, and you can easily fit 15ml or more ink into a 16mm-tall cardboard mailer ($0.34 per unit is what I paid for the ones I use, bought in one lot of fifty pieces, but I think that's gone up to $0.44 per unit now) using eight 1.8ml screw-top sample vials (roughly $0.06 per unit). You'll need to get four 60ml bottles of the Standard Bindery inks at once for the order to qualify for free shipping (within Australia), so you'll need to find twelve to fifteen others who want to buy 15ml "samples" of one of these inks at $8.70 a pop shipped, without the benefit of having the ink in an included single 15ml bottle. The organiser gets his (or hers) for $5.50 each but the benefit of the lower financial cost is offset by the time and effort required in packaging and shipping the samples.

 

It just sounds like all too much trouble to me to look for 15ml "samples" at around $0.60/ml or more, just to see if I like a colour enough to buy a full retail bottle (four times the volume) for 250% the initial outlay. Unfortunately I don't see four ink colours I want out of those six to take the plunge and place an order with Standard Bindery.

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Not bad! $21.95

 

 

Now available for a lower effective price than that, at today's currency conversion rates, from La Couronne du Comte in the Netherlands.

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Nice spotting, AntiqueApprentice!

 

If anyone is looking at buying direct from Standard Bindery or the long way from LCdC, remember to apply the respective 10%-off discount codes.

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Jessica Coles just put up her overview of the inks on The Well-Appointed Desk.

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