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Jon Szanto
March 12th, 2015, 12:48 PM
Here's an interesting article about inks, forgeries, and the Feds...

The Secret Service Uses This Massive Ink Library to Catch Forged Documents (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/news/a13875/secret-service-ink-forensics-library/)

Check out one of the storage lockers!

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Laura N
March 12th, 2015, 12:56 PM
Phew, someone has more ink than I do.
tandaina
March 12th, 2015, 01:28 PM
Oh thank goodness, I'm not an ink hoarder at *all.* But also... Who wants to bet they have almost unused bottles of some of our most coveted out of production inks in there....
cwent2
March 12th, 2015, 01:31 PM
By comparing the bands to the over 11,400 inks in the library


Eleven Thousand, Four Hundred :jaw: inks in the library! -- WOW
Chrissy
March 12th, 2015, 04:27 PM
Now that's a lot of ink :jaw:
klpeabody
March 13th, 2015, 05:15 PM
This is incredible.
reprieve
March 13th, 2015, 07:16 PM
This is incredible.

Don't you mean inkredible? Har har har.
dneal
March 13th, 2015, 11:16 PM
Now we know where all the Penman Sapphire went...
erpe
March 14th, 2015, 12:06 AM
Can I be locked in for the night to switch a few labels? :jester:
Neo
March 14th, 2015, 03:28 AM
Can I be locked in for the night to switch a few labels? :jester:


Never mind label switching, what about swabbing?
caribbean_skye
March 14th, 2015, 06:21 AM
well damn. wonder just how accurate those ink swatches are after all this time.
Neo
March 14th, 2015, 06:31 AM
well damn. wonder just how accurate those ink swatches are after all this time.

Good point, then they may be better off just keeping list of the ingredients and concentrations of each in a database somewhere. Even so, wouldn't it be fun to visit with a handful of dip pens? I wonder if they have any Racing Green?......