Ink Biografia

IKM
Ink is a liquid or paste that contains pigments or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, or quill.Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.
Ink can be a complex medium, composed of solvents, pigments, dyes, resins, lubricants, solubilizers,surfactants, particulate matter, fluorescers, and other materials. The components of inks serve many purposes; the ink’s carrier, colorants, and other additives control flow and thickness of the ink and itsappearance when dry.
History
Many ancient cultures around the world have independently discovered and formulated inks for the purposes of writing and drawing. The knowledge of the inks, their recipesand the techniques for their production comes from archaeological analysis or from written text itself.
The history of Chinese inks can be traced back to the 18th century BC, with the utilization ofnatural plant (plant dyes), animal, and mineral inks based on such materials as graphite that were ground with water and applied with ink brushes. Evidence for the earliest Chinese inks, similar tomodern inksticks, is around 256 BC in the end of the Warring States Period and produced from soot and animal glue.
The India ink used in ancient India since at least the 4th century BC was called masi,and was made of burnt bones, tar, pitch, and other substances.[2][6] Indian documents written in Kharosthi with ink have been unearthed in Chinese Turkestan.[7] The practice of writing with ink and asharp pointed needle was common in early South India.[3] Several Buddhist and Jain sutras in India were compiled in ink.
In ancient Rome, atramentum was used. In an article for the Christian ScienceMonitor, Sharon J. Huntington describes these other historical inks:
About 1,600 years ago, a popular ink recipe was created. The recipe was used for centuries. Iron salts, such as ferrous sulfate...