Changing Colors

[BklynWriter]

 

How often do you change ink colors? Daily, weekly? Do you designate a specific color for a specific pen? I'm curious. I can easily see myself changing inks at least once a week.

 

deb

 

 

[framebaer]

Lots of Pens, Lots of colors. Sometimes marathon ink flushing days when 6-10 pens get emptied, flushed, and either new colors or out of rotation.

[juhtolv]

How often do you change ink colors? Daily, weekly? Do you designate a specific color for a specific pen? I'm curious. I can easily see myself changing inks at least once a week.

 

It is not that simple. First: I try to match color of pen to color of ink. There is even a poll about that: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...showtopic=23575 On the other hand, it depends on season, what colors I like to use for my Snail-Mails: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...st&p=430674

[penburg]

I tend to align inks with pen colors, but not obsessively. (That word is used alot on FPN!)

 

I think that's why most of my pens tend to be black, brown, blue, or burgundy.

 

I'm not obsessive, I'm not, I'm not.

[Jimmy James]

In one medium point Frontier I use for my signature, I keep PR Midnight Blues.

 

In my 3 demonstrators, I keep blue or green ink in them. I stay away from black and red in particular.

 

For the rest of my pens, it just depends on what I have on hand. I have cartridges in Quink washable blue and Levenger amythest, gemstone green, red, and cocoa. I have bottles of Quink blue-black, PR Midnight Blues, and PR Grey Flannel. When I have more converters, I want to buy at least one of the FPN inks, one of the other permanent Noodlers exclusives (legal lapis, legal blue, or old Manhattan black), and something a little more exotic like a Diamine, Visconti, or Herbin ink.

Edited December 5, 2007 by Jimmy James

[Titivillus]

 

How often do you change ink colors? Daily, weekly? Do you designate a specific color for a specific pen? I'm curious. I can easily see myself changing inks at least once a week.

 

deb

 

For most pens I will change the ink color whenever I fill the pen since I usually rotate through my group cleaning one out and freshly filling another. There is an italic nib that I use for addresses on envelopes that I keep Zhivago in but for the rest it is pretty random.

 

Kurt

[christob]

For work I like to have one red, a fine black and a blue. On the whole I use designated pens for this, not neccessarily colour-coordinated. Then I have a standard work pen which alternates between brown or purple. And finally a couple of other pens which change ink every time they are empty. So all in all, quite a mix of different ink-pen ideologies.

[PAKMAN]

I usually have a grunge of pens inked! Most of the time one has brown, one burgundy, one a blue green, two with other blues and sometimes but rarely one will actually have black ink in it! I started to say I don't really match the pen to the ink but I notice my Teal 51 had blue green ink in it Caran d'Ache Caribbean Blue, my Pelikan 800 blue stripe has Diamine Presidential Blue in it my Amber/Brown Conway Stewart Dandy has PR Chocolat. But I did get radical with my Red Visconti Wall Street and put Diamine Mediterranean Blue in it!

[Mescof1]

I tend to be pretty conservative and use the same ink in the same pens for months, then change. Right now it's Waterman Havana, Waterman Blue-Purple, Quink Black. I have a Lamy Safari in which I use PR DC Blue and Noodler's Walnut.

 

I guess I seem to assign certain inks to certain pens and then stay with that combination.

 

 

Mescoff

[rorschah]

Medical advice told me, for my RSI, that i should use fat pens, and change pens as often as possible - every 5 or 10 minutes is ideal.

 

to encourage myself to do this, i devised a sort of note-taking system: 3 different sized pens loaded with different inks. Notes on text or lecture: blue or black ink. Comments of mine on the text: green ink. More general comments that can be pulled for my dissertation work: red ink.

 

Not only does it make me change pens every 2 or 3 minutes, but it made my *vast* array of notes way more searchable - especially since the good stuff is rare, and always in red.

 

-thi

[Ghost Plane]

I change colors to jump start my brain when my writing isn't going well. Some colors just clash with some pens, but then I might change the pens too to go with different ink colors. It's all part of the "art" of writing.

[WillAdams]

I'm boring and staid by comparison. I load a given pen w/ a colour which matches its barrel and pretty much use specific pens for specific purposes (Sheaffer Agio w/ 0.8mm crisp italic w/ J. Herbin Café des Îles for daily use, Esterbrook copper LJ w/ FPN GMB for addresses and checks, &c.)

 

William

 

 

[FrankB]

My norm is to have about 12 pens set up for use in a given month. I choose the inks and stay with them for the month. I usually contrast ink color and pen color, for example a purple or burgundy ink in a green pen. Any color ink can go into a black pen. In 12 pens I will have at least eight different inks. On some occasions when you all get me fired up about a particular ink, I might change ink color before the end of the month.

 

Like Ghost Plane, I will change pen/ink to get my thoughts jump started. I also use different inks for different kinds of writing, for example Legal Lapis for business and a purple for social note cards. It is fun to have so many ink colors to choose from and I explore the ink colors as much as I can.

[chemgeek]

I tend to keep the same color in my pens, once I decide what it should be. It's too much trouble to keep changing colors, so I try do minimize how often it is required. This strategy also encourages the collection of a sufficient number of nice pens to write in all the colors I like to keep on hand! (Good or bad, depending on your point of view.)

 

Cheers.

[wimg]

My pens actually tell me what ink to use, they provide me with images and feelings. Of course, that doesn't make it always easy, because I have to translate those into a physical ink and ink colour. Generally this works fine, but occasionally it means an ink is tried in a pen, and it isn't the right thing, This is one of the reasons why I have so many inks, especially brown inks - two of my pens wanted a brown ink, a different one, and it took some time, and quite a few different inks, to get sorted .

 

Warm regards, Wim

aka the Mad Dutchman :ltcapd:

[caligatia]

I'm terribly dull. I have three pens I use regularly. They keep the same color inks in them, usually.

 

-- Pilot VP (black carbonesque) with Legal Lapis

-- Lamy Studio (black) with Swishmix Glacier Blue

-- Lamy Vista with Levenger amethyst

 

The Vista will be filled with a waterproof purple as soon as I have the time and money to experiment with ink mixing, but then that pen will be set too.

 

Yep, terribly dull.

[AndrewW]

Mostly, I have a different ink in each pen, which means that I often buy a new pen when I buy a new ink. I don't change inks in the same pen all that often, because it can sometimes take quite a long time to get the new colour running pure, especially if you have had a darker ink in the pen previously. (I mostly buy cheaper pens - I quite like the Lamy Vista with a bottle converter.)

 

At the moment, I have:

 

- Lamy Vistas with: R&K Helianthus; Noodlers Ottoman Rose; Noodlers Squetegue; Noodlers Antietam; Lamy Green (cartridges)

 

- Parker Jotter with PR Tanzanite

 

- Parker 45s with: Diamine Steel Blue; Herbin Vert Pré

 

- 23 year old Sheaffer (not sure of the line) with PR Naples Blue

 

- Parker Vector with Herbin Lie de Thé

 

- Lamy Schreiblernstifte (cheap school cartidge pens, bought in Germany) with: Lamy Turquoise; Lamy Green; Lamy Black.

 

I *think* that's it.... (I also have a bunch of currently homeless inks, some of which I don't like and have hardly used.)

 

 

[gr10girl]

Pretty much I change colors when I have to add ink. Unless I'm in class, and then I just shove another cartridge in it and continue. And that's only in case of emergency, if I know a pens on it's way to out I typically have two with me (I have issues when I "kill" two pens in one class, or when one of my pens, when combined with FPN GMB, was way wetter than I thought it would be and it ran out without any warning at all)... but yeah, typically I change colors when I reink, The only two that have avoided this trend are my pink Pelicano (it just screams for Diamine Flamingo Pink) and my Chinese Picasso Pen, although even it has had to change colors once or twice. (It just looks so pretty with PR Avacado [hate that spelling, wish they'd've fixed it before marketing it, makes me twitch every time I see the bottle]). But all paranthetical sidenotes aside, I'm really flexible when it comes to ink colors.

 

Edit for missing comma

Edited December 13, 2007 by gr10girl

[Verdant]

I use the same ink in my "working" pen until I feel like playing with Q-tips and mixing inks (once a week or so). Then it's the "latest, greatest" ink around...until I make another one.

[WhosYerBob]

At present every recharge of my Conklin is done in a completely new color, so I'm able to write several short letters or a few long ones before changing inks. Basically once a day or so. Once I narrow my choices down I expect the selection to stay much longer.