Where do ink come from?

Question

Ink...

Answer 1

I guess you were trying to say.. where DOES ink come from. It is a chemical make from minerals found naturally. Also it comes from the store.

Answer 2

Approximately 5000 years ago, an ink for blacking the raised surfaces of pictures and texts carved in stone, was developed in China. This early ink was a mixture of soot from pine smoke, lamp oil, and gelatin from animal skins and musk. Other early cultures also developed inks (of many colors) from available berries, plants and minerals.

In an article for the Christian Science Monitor, 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 (made by treating iron with sulfuric acid), was mixed with tannin from gallnuts (they grow on trees) and a thickener. When first put to paper, this ink is bluish-black. Over time it fades to a dull brown.

Scribes in medieval Europe (about AD 800 to 1500) wrote on sheepskin parchment. One 12th century ink recipe called for hawthorn branches to be cut in the spring and left to dry. Then the bark was pounded from the branches and soaked in water for eight days. The water was boiled until it thickened and turned black. Wine was added during boiling. The ink was poured into special bags and hung in the sun. Once dried, the mixture was mixed with wine and iron salt over a fire to make the final ink.

In the 15th century, a new type of ink had to be developed in Europe for the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg. Two types of ink were prevalent at the time: the Greek and Roman writing ink (soot, glue, and water) and the 12th century variety composed of ferrous sulfate, gall, gum, and water.[1] Neither of these handwriting inks could adhere to printing surfaces without creating blurs. Eventually an oily, varnish-like ink made of soot, turpentine, and walnut oil was created specifically for the printing press.

Answer 3

Back then, they used to use natural minerals and things from the earth to make inks and dyes. Things like metals and rocks and even natural inks from animals, such as sepia, which came from cuttlefish.

But now they use chemicals and man-made coloring to make inks, which are more durable and easy to use than natural-made inks.

Answer 4

there days they use aniline dyes mostly

they used to get real creative about it

many many recipes and colors, same for dying fibers

oak galls makes a brown/black (those golf ball sized hollow things)

a nice purple can be made from beetles I heard (cochineal)

Answer 5

chemicals

Answer 6

squids

Answer 7

it also comes from octopuses

Answer 8

my anus