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I wonder if anyone else noticed this.

 

Normally, when I use IG inks like Rohrer & Klingner Salix or Scabiosa, they are laid out in a gorgeous color that very quickly darkens. That I expect.

 

But when I then use a tissue/kleen-ex/toilet paper to clean the nib, the ink preserves its clear colors unblemished. Even next day, the colors are still as bright as when they exited the pen.

 

I was wondering if anybody else has noticed it, whether someone has observed a similar behaviour with other papers and what the reason for it may be.

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If you are to be ephemeral, leave a good scent.

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That's happened to me. I have a basic spiral notebook and my Registrars ink stays blue. I mean, I look at it now and it's finally darkened, but it was blue for a long time. I don't know the reason. I'm gonna guess that this cheap paper doesn't have the acid buffer/neutralizers that "better" paper does. Lots of old paper is yellow and crumbly because there's still too much acid residue from the paper-making process. (Similarly, poor IG ink can also leave acid. There are ancient papers where the ink is eaten away leaving a stencil like effect.)

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Hmm. Haven't noticed but I also haven't used any IG inks recently. And admittedly, I then throw the tissues in the trash, or flush the TP....

As to wallylynn's comment about the ink eating away paper over the centuries, the same effect can be found on some old embroideries where the thread or the drawn-on design was "black" (either from lampblack or an irongall formula. They know that there WAS thread at one point because the stitch holes remain.

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That's an interesting possibility. I'll try other low quality papers and see if it may have a relationship with paper acidity or degree of processing.

If you are to be ephemeral, leave a good scent.

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I just flushed and filled my pen with registrars. So I was able to reproduce the blue writing in the spiral notebook. A different spiral book darkened immediately. That book has much whiter paper, whatever that might imply. Writing on newspaper also stays blue. Toilet tissue - blue, paper napkin - blue, envelope-black, muji notebook - black. The tissues and napkins are bright white, the muji a slight tan, so bleaching isn't the influence.

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