My First Epic Ink Test, Six Month Mark Overview

October 15, 2014

Howdy! I have been posting the results of my second round of ink testing as an ongoing project, but I just hit the six month mark on my first round and I figured that I would post the results as kind of an overview without the along-the-way commentary. Because, science. :-P

Here is the setup for the first test (same as for the second one), followed by the control sheet and the water test:

After one month:

Two months:

(control on left, ambient indoor on right)

(Control on left, sunlight on right)

Three months:

(Control on left, ambient indoor on right. At this point I decided that there wasn't much happening here so I retired the ambient indoor light test.)

(Control on left, sunlight on right)

Four and a half months:

(Control on left, sunlight on right)

Six months:

(Control on left, sunlight on right)

At this point I am planning to do another check towards the end of December since I will be moving and so the test might end around the 8 month mark. I am also filling a sheet or two for my third round to start in January and I would love suggestions on inks that I haven't tried yet. I'm open to non-FPs as well, so if you have other types of pens you want to see tested, let me know! :-)

October 15, 2014

I really think I need to try R&K now. Bah, there are too many inks I want to buy all of a sudden. I blame this site (plus a local group that's also fairly ink-crazy, haha).

Thanks, OP! This is an immensely useful experiment. Hope you get to keep it up for another 6 months; I'd like to see how the sunlight samples fare after that long.

Cheers!

Kevin