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title: "History of Ink"  
description: "A brief explanation about the origin of Ink and its interesting facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-11-13  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/3216/history-of-ink  
category: "education, history"  
tags: ["Ink", "education", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# History of Ink

![History of Ink](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/5908d7b2-5caa-47e7-b213-0d116609c600/images/515c50cc-7bd0-43f1-be12-06012040dbfa.jpeg) ![History of Ink](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/5908d7b2-5caa-47e7-b213-0d116609c600/images/194a7c64-f3d0-4289-9909-bb326676712e.jpeg) Since ancient civilisations Ink has been used, with the first inks made from lampblack combined with gum arabic or egg white. ![History of Ink](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/5908d7b2-5caa-47e7-b213-0d116609c600/images/42e28f8c-3487-47b0-8739-412c5af41165.jpeg) Egyptians, Chinese, Romans, India and other ancient cultures utilised this sort of ink to write on papyrus, bamboo, and other materials. ![History of Ink](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/5908d7b2-5caa-47e7-b213-0d116609c600/images/7c14a9f4-beeb-433d-99ed-7f5bf401a092.jpeg) Iron gallate, carbon, and coloured inks were used by European scribes during the Middle Ages for manuscript decorating & map construction. ![History of Ink](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/5908d7b2-5caa-47e7-b213-0d116609c600/images/849e15b6-b7da-40d8-a1e7-dc99ece44ee4.jpeg) In the 15th century, the printing press revolutionised ink manufacture by needing faster-drying, water-based pigments used in early printing presses. ![History of Ink](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/5908d7b2-5caa-47e7-b213-0d116609c600/images/8af927be-dd3d-465d-936b-1bd3d198a7e7.jpeg) In the 19th and 20th centuries, several ink technologies, such as ballpoint pen ink, fountain pen ink, and inkjet printer ink, were created.

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