#archivalink — Public Fediverse posts

R&K Salix vs Diamine Registrar's, two iron gall inks. You can see that both inks darken over time. After one day, Diamine Registrar's has barely any blue left in its color and I'm sure it will darken a bit more over the next day or two. R&K Salix loses a bit of vibrancy but remains blue in color.
The funny thing is, while writing, Diamine Registrar's looks very similar in color to darkened Salix but within seconds starts to darken to what can be seen in the bottom right of the image.
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R&K Salix vs Diamine Registrar's, two iron gall inks. You can see that both inks darken over time. After one day, Diamine Registrar's has barely any blue left in its color and I'm sure it will darken a bit more over the next day or two. R&K Salix loses a bit of vibrancy but remains blue in color.
#FountainPens #ink #IronGallInk #RohrerAndKlingner #Diamine #DiamineRegistrars #ArchivalInk

Unfortunately, R&K Salix did not work out in my TWSBI Diamond Mini. I switched back to R&K dokumentus black and put Salix into a TWSBI Eco. Let's hope that works better. I really wanted an iron gall ink in my carry-everywhere fountain pen but as it turns out, this combination of pen and ink just isn't ideal. The much wetter dokumentus ink doesn't cause any issues whatsoever in this pen and I think I'll stick with it for a while. It does feather and bleed on low quality paper but I think I'll just have to live with that. On the plus side, R&K dokumentus is a document-grade archival ink that is ISO 12757-2 certified.
#FountainPens #DocumentInk #ArchivalInk #IronGallInk

RE: nightcity.bar/notes/9olrrk63mn9o8qxb

What makes an ink an archival ink?
Would you consider the De Atramentis Document inks archival inks?
Would you consider Diamine Registrar's an archival ink?
#FountainPens #ink #ArchivalInk

Y'all have heard of archival ink, right? The inks that will survive most of the things you can throw at it and it will still be readable in a couple of decades. But what about the paper?
If I want to write something down and plan to have it around for a long time, what paper would I use? Is archival paper a thing? Can I just use whatever paper works the best with my fountain pen?
#FountainPen #ink #ArchivalInk