Ink Capacity

[Cynergy]

How can we translate this 3,500 m of ink capacity of the Parker style refills?

 

How many A4 pages can we fill up with a pen refill or with a 50 ml ink bottle?

 

 

[Bigeddie]

based on this, Parker cart capacity is 1.47ml.

 

3,500ml would be 2,381 refills. I'd round that down to about 2,100 based on a little wastage.

 

50ml bottle would be 34 refills of a cart, or 100 refills of the 0.6ml slide converter.

 

As for pages to a refill, that depends on the pen. (EF to 3B will make a lot of difference! the feed will vary that again.)

 

Why do you want 3,500ml of any one ink?

[Cynergy]

based on this, Parker cart capacity is 1.47ml.

 

3,500ml would be 2,381 refills. I'd round that down to about 2,100 based on a little wastage.

 

50ml bottle would be 34 refills of a cart, or 100 refills of the 0.6ml slide converter.

 

As for pages to a refill, that depends on the pen. (EF to 3B will make a lot of difference! the feed will vary that again.)

 

Why do you want 3,500ml of any one ink?

 

 

This was my mistake. Parker says 3,500 meters of writing for the ball point refill. No ml !!!

I just wanted to know what is 3,500 meters on paper.

Edited May 3, 2012 by Cynergy

[inkstainedruth]

I would think that would also depend on the size of the paper and how wide your margins are.

US standard paper is 8-1/2 x 11 inches (don't ask me to convert that to cm -- I'm no good at math at the moment). So with 1" margins it would be 7-1/2" wide for the writing area. My mother was an author -- she would generally get about 25 lines (double-spaced) per page of type-written manuscript (although her top and bottom margins might have been more than one inch). 25 x 7-1/2 = 187.5" of text per page. Depending on how large you write, maybe double that, so roughly 375" , or just under 10-1/2" yards. A yard is a little bit shorter than a meter, but IIRC the European standard paper (A5?) is a little longer than 11", so roughly the equivalent of 11 yards, or maybe 10-1/2 meters or so per page.

3500 divided by 10-1/2 is about 333-1/3 pages. (I have a nice calculator function on the Dashboard App on my iBook -- I just don't remember the conversion rate between ounces and ml offhand (I always look that up online someplace that you can plug amounts in one box and then have the website do the conversions for you....).

Say 300 to 350 pages of writing, unless you leave lots of space between each line.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth