![]() Really, what it comes down to is that Holbein Special Black was the best ink. And so I yearn for something more dependable. Obviously, I can just use papers that work with Super Black, but sometimes I like to try out new notebooks and sometimes Super Black doesn’t work on the paper in them. On the other hand, it can fuzz out and bleed on certain papers. On the one hand, this is why it flows so well. Now, what tends to make me drift away from Super Black and try other inks is that Super Black tends to be a bit watery. So I switched back to Speedball Super Black. But my frustration was growing and that’s never a good thing. But I wanted to give it a fair try and so I kept going with it. I think the acrylic is just hard on my tools. Also, over time I’ve noticed that my nibs are gumming up and wearing out faster. Water in my ink well helps, but too much can cause the ink to gray out. Even when I vigorously shake up the bottle before I pour it out, it is often so viscous that I cannot get it to flow from my dip pen nib. However, the longer I’ve used it the thicker it has gotten. It dries like a watered down acrylic paint. The lines I get from it are fine and it’s probably the blackest ink I’ve used. So I was concerned at first, but it’s a good ink. The Super Opaque Black isn’t an India ink, but instead a water-based acrylic. As I mentioned in a previous post, I tried it because I had really loved Holbein Special Black, but couldn’t get that ink anymore. Most recently, I have been trying out Holbein Super Opaque Black Acrylic Ink. Over the years, this is probably the ink that I have used the most and the most often returned to. The consistency is just right for screen printing especially. The saturation of the colors is second to none they mix very well so that I can create very specific hues as well as regulate the opacity and transparency of the inks. A long time ago, Jimmie Robinson told a group of us who were at a meeting of Bay Area comics creators that he used Speedball Super Black. I exclusively use Speedball’s Acrylic Screen Printing Ink for all my printing. I’m always on a quest for the perfect ink.
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