This past year was The Year of the Ink Sample. I tried to dial back ink buying because I do not need to Buy All The Pretty Colors. My ink box, the box I have to hold all my ink bottles, samples and pen case, is full and overflowing. Mind you, the box is about almost half a shoe box so not mega big but still, it holds stuff in my writing drawer.
I mainly needed samples for works that I don't want a bunch of ink for, especially since I already have the amount & usage mathed out already. One 3ml vial of ink is basically 60 pages (a signature for my journals since I handbind my journals) in my journals, my average handwritten work is about 2-3 signatures. One work in particular is The Golden Boys, which I plan to have the work written with golden colored non-shimmer (I creys ;_;) ink. The average bottle of ink is about 20-50 ml ink. That's too much ink for only one planned work. Samples let me try different inks and if I hate it, at least I'm not staring at an entire bottle of it. Plus, some of the inks looked nice but the bottles didn't so there is also that. With The Golden Boys, a planned novel of about 180 hand-bound journal pages total, I have about 3 golden hued inks and a fourth ink that is scented and golden colored. That's about all I need.
The other ink samples I have are black inks, mainly because I only use black for my Herbin ballpoint pen. I don't fill out forms and jot notes at the same length or rate as I write my books so I don't need whole bottles of black ink. Plus, I get to try different black inks that I may or may not like.
Basically, I mainly use samples for inks that I simply don't want to use a lot of. And to trim down bottle purchasing. Doesn't mean I won't buy more bottles but it does mean I'm fairly past my Buy All The Inkz kick. I already have probably more than enough to write everything currently in my head but that amount is always changing since I always have new ideas I club together. But currently, I have a half-shoebox full of ink.
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