Super Crazy Facts About Ink!

Ink has been with us through the ages and the sepia ink used by Rembrandt and da Vinci to create their masterpieces was derived from cuttlefish of all things.

We have come a long way to the modern ink and technology we use every day and as this infographic illustrates, there are some crazy facts about ink that not all of us know and are surprised to learn about.

If you are looking for some interesting trivia then the fact that most species of termite will follow the trail of ink left by a ballpoint pen as it mimics termite tracking pheromones, is not a bad starting point.

You can also discover that some bizarre and somewhat disturbing facts about ink, such as the story that the late dictator Saddam Hussein claimed to have written an entire copy of the Quran in ink created from blood he provided over a two year period.

infographic by Stinky Ink

What is also interesting to discover is how some of the different colors of ink are produced and tattoo ink in particular is an education, with soot, rust and ginger being just some of the sources used to bring your body art to life.

Many of us simply change an ink cartridge when the old one runs out, without giving much thought to the technology that allows us to reproduce high quality images.

The fact that a cartridge can spray 36,000 drops of ink per second is yet another example of some the crazy facts about ink that are certainly worth discovering.

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