Is There A Standard For Permanent/archival Fountain Pen Inks?

[amberleadavis]

Thank you!

[dcwaites]

See, nothing ever disappears from the interwebs....

[hari317]

As mentioned in this thread, there are three relevant ISO standards at the moment.

 

12757-2 for Ball pens

14145-2 for Roller Ball pens and

27668-2 for Gel ink Ball pens.

 

The part 1 of these standards also specify the standard dimensions of the refills/cartridges.

 

The permanence and resistance tests as described in part 2 and the test methods and the reagents are identical among all these three standards.

 

Test are carried out on writing samples made on specified paper using a standard writing machine.

 

Thus FP inks conforming to part 2 of any of the above standards are going to be equally resilient.

 

The only value(IMO, YMMV) of evolving a separate FP ink standard will be in its part 1, which would specify the standard dimensions of ink cartridges and converters and possibly ink bottles/containers. This will be a welcome thing to happen, but there should be an interest in the industry partners to come together for inter-operability as the BP/RB/Gel pen folks have done.

Edited March 9, 2018 by hari317

[Viseguy]

I think we FP users should revel and luxuriate over the absence of an ISO standard.
(revel: ; luxuriate: )