Tag: Ink Test

  • Dip Pens for the Backs of Photos

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    Quick Recommendation Speedball B-5 nib Rapidraw 3084-F or Reeves & Poole India Ink The best solution I have found for writing on the back of plastic-coated photos, like those from Costco or most modern developers, is drafting ink. It would seem the inks are usually archival even though the paper is not. The writing is…

  • Pens for the Backs of Photographs, More Ink

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    I tested three new writing media for the backs of photographs. I recently went through some 2 or 3 year old pictures I had marked with Higgins Black Magic. In exactly one case I found one photo that had picked up pen marks from another. I do not know if I put them together while…

  • Another Ink Test

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    This ink test is starting to feel obsessive, but I got a technical pen and it came with Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph Ultradraw (3085-F) ink, which says it is an India ink for use on paper and film—by which they mean drafting film. I tested it with a dip pen, and smeared part of it after about…

  • Additional Photo Marking Solution

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    The problem, recall, is getting an archival (or at least photo safe) ink to stick to the back of a resin-coated photograph. Almost anything consumers buy now is resin (polyethylene) coated. In my last post I discussed that only the Zig Photo Signature pen and the Zig Millenium produced reasonable results. The remaining problems are:…

  • Pens for the Backs of Photographs

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    The Problem As I scan and archive photographic prints I want, at a minimum, to note that they have been scanned and when. I may wish to note some of the subject or photographer information. I have the same objectives for recent prints, for example from the portrait studio. The first part of the problem…