Penfount • Pen Community#FPQuestion of the day:
How do you keep track of what pen has what ink? #FountainPens #FountainPenInks
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How do you keep track of what pen has what ink? #FountainPens #FountainPenInks
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mvu@penfount By only inking 2-3 pens at a time 😅
Tallastro 🇺🇦@penfount
I try to limit the number inked amd I keep logs of ink and pen use.
I try to limit the number inked amd I keep logs of ink and pen use.
Janice in GA@penfount Notebook and spreadsheet, on the belt AND suspenders principle
mostlycheap@penfount memory, trial and error and "is this Monteverde peace or Lamy blue black"?
CYPRIAN BEAZE@penfount #FOUNTAINPENS #FPQUESTION I limit my colors and rarely ink a pen that is a different color; I.e. blue pen=blue ink. Some pens have had only one ink for years; not hard to remember.🖋️
Deborah Makarios@penfount I only have five pens. On the other hand, my memory isn't what it was, so it's a good thing three of them are demonstrators. The other two I occasionally need to unscrew and peer at, or try on a random bit of paper.
It probably helps that I don't often have two inks the same colour (although I did once get confused when I had both Diamine Monaco Red and a sample of Diamine Oxblood).
Jim P.@penfount Until I make some tough decisions and thin the herd a lot, I keep a list.
For the moment most of these are for directly comparing nibs and inks in various inexpensive pens.
paradoxmo@penfount I use a spreadsheet and add a line whenever I ink a new pen. I change the line to red when an ink runs out.
I usually have around 10 or so inked at the same time. Sometimes the number goes up because of inks/pens I’m fixing or testing.
Ana@paradoxmo
Gonna steal this idea 🙈
Gonna steal this idea 🙈
Clair (KD3BCC)@penfount some pens only get certain ink. Other than that, it's a guessing game. 🤓
Back To AnalogI don't keep track of that. I only have 3 pens inked up at a time.
Richard Welty@penfount I have a notebook labeled “inks & pens”
Garry Eves@penfount I use an app that I created tor iOS and Mac, called PenList, keeps it easy to see what is in use.
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐@penfount Easy. I match the pen to the ink. (picture taken before putting the green ink in the green pen). I only have one ink of each color, for the most part, so I won't mix up, say, two different pinks.
The two blues are the same ink, then red, black, highlighter yellow, pink, and jade green.
Suspect-Similar@penfount I never ink more than 4 or 5 pens simultaneously. It's not very hard to know which is which.
Inkdependence@penfount I use an ink journal for that. Pen, nib, ink, & date.
(Actually, two of them with different papers, but that’s only because I review inks and it’s nice to see them on multiple papers.)