Inky T O D - How Much Ink Do You Really Use?

[DrDebG]

Let's see: I have 12 bottles of ink right now. 5 of them are new with 40 ml (5 x 40ml = 200 ml) and the rest are less than 1/2 full (7 x 20ml = 140 ml). Each week I use on average 10 pens with a 0.6ml converter (10 x 0.6ml = 6ml per week) - and yes, I go through all of the ink in each pen each week. So if I have 340 ml of ink and use 6 ml per week, I should have enough for the next 56 weeks. Hmm, I guess I don't feel so bad if I buy some more!

[ac12]

I have a net gain each year. I add more ink than I use.

[amberleadavis]

I have a net gain each year. I add more ink than I use.

 

I'm trying to have a net gain each month, but to balance out, I try and gift a lot of ink so I have a net gain of bottles if not an actual increase in ml of ink.

[AndyYNWA]

I think I'm around 0,5 - 1 ml per week.

But that's in three different pens, so I can go weeks without refilling. But usually I change ink sooner anyway.

Edited November 23, 2015 by AndyYNWA

[richila]

I use 2.5 ml weekly in my school pen and 1 ml each week in my 3 personal pen case pens. However, I just got a Journible, so my ink use for personal writing should go up quite a bit.

[amberleadavis]

Good job! Keep using ink!

[Russ]

I use one 100-ml bottle of Perle Noire per year. That's all I really need.

 

I use claret and green a little during the holidays or for proofing.

[by_a_Lady]

About 100ml per year (at an average consumption rate of 2ml/week, an estimate based on my experience from the last 15 years). With a calculated total of 695ml of ink, and an estimated actual total of 655ml, it's going to take something just north of 7 years to use up all of my current ink collection.

 

 

Dominique

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Oh dear I have no idea.

 

It depends on how many notes I take that day. Some days it's 1ml or 1,5ml, other days it might be 0,5ml or so. It's probably an average of ~0,8ml per day.

[Noihvo]

[praxim]

Somewhere in the vicinity of 50 mL per year.

 

I can predict that my ink supply will outlast me, which is fine because so will the pens, and if I am leaving behind pens then it would be a little discourteous not to provide for an ink supply as well.

 

Therefore, any further purchase will be a gain for future generations.

[martinbir]

 

I can predict that my ink supply will outlast me, which is fine because so will the pens, and if I am leaving behind pens then it would be a little discourteous not to provide for an ink supply as well.

 

Therefore, any further purchase will be a gain for future generations.

 

Exactly!

 

Thank you Praxim. We can all go on accumulating more and more ink with clear consciences.

[amberleadavis]

Here was a post from a few weeks ago.

 

Find out how much ink you use. I use a LOT, but then I play with my ink ... a LOT. Even still, I'm probably not going to use up all my inks in my lifetime. In college I would use about a bottle a semester, and I wrote 15 pages per 1.5 hour class, so that would be 10 pages per credit hour .... 60 ml would 1800 pages for me (I think). 1 filled 2 pens each night they had small converters, and I used a Sheaffer cartridge every day. Oh, so maybe I used more ink than I thought. I don't think most people write that much, and let's get real, word processing back then was a real pain.

Anyway, 2 ml samples, should be a couple of fills on the fine or extra fine nib - if you write a lot you probably won't use at 2ml in a week.

Now, Skyperre's cat has an ink problem.

Skyppere

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r315/skyppere/IMG_3923-002_zpse2e37dd3.jpg

 

 

 

 

@N, may I suggest you borrow S's cat for you convenient accident? He has experience.

[amberleadavis]

 

 

BTW, Amber is that you in the new avatar?? I've always wanted to put a face to the handwriting.

 

 

Not usually, I change my avatar periodically to a new inky. I have a video of me at the LA pen show. It will make you dizzy.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/333418-inky-thoughts-and-choices-from-the-la-pen-show/?hl=%2Bpen+%2Bshow