Ink
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends: “Let’s establish a code. If a letter you get from me is written in blue ink, it is true what I say. If it is written in red ink, it is false.” After a month, his friends get the first letter. Everything is in blue. It says, this letter: “Everything is wonderful here. Stores are full of good food. Movie theatres show good films from the west. Apartments are large and luxurious. The only thing you cannot buy is red ink.” --One of Zizek's jokes, first appeared in print in Welcome to the Desert of the Real. |
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Ink is a liquid or paste that contains pigments and/or dyes and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing and/or writing with a pen, brush, or quill. Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.
Ink can be a complex medium, composed of solvents, pigments, dyes, resins, lubricants, solubilizers, surfactants, particulate matter, fluorescers, and other materials. The components of inks serve many purposes; the ink’s carrier, colorants, and other additives control flow and thickness of the ink and its appearance when dry.
See also
- Blue Wool Scale
- De-inked pulp
- Dokumental
- Election ink
- Fountain pen inks
- Gel pen
- Ink Eradicator
- Invisible ink
- Pharmaceutical ink
- Preservation of illuminated manuscripts
- Preservation (library and archival science)
- Soy ink
- Toner
- Stark's ink
- Tattoo ink
- Inksaving typeface
