You would surely have used an ink pen at some point of time or the other. The basic mechanism is that of a design quiet similar to that of a quill. The basic problem in the quill or later forms of the wood pen were based in the fact that al of these were rather incapable of holding much ink for a long duration of time. The topic in question at the present moment is the ink that is used in a fountain pen. Did you know that the fountain pen was named so mainly on account of the fact that the pen spouted as fountain that spouted ink at the drop of a hat.

The ink in the earliest stages of civilization was a resin like stuff made out of naturally available products. Red color was made out of marigolds and green out of leaf sap and blue from poppy boil. The form of the ink then was used mainly in the direction of painting cave pictures. Please note that this ink has proved more resistive than the modern forms of ink as it has lived through several generations in the deep covers of caves and mural paintings. When the modern barrel fountain pen was designed there arose a need for a form of ink that could be easily produced and in large quantities.

The first color of modern ink was in the close shades of black blue, which was replaced in the later times by royal and peacock blue. Egyptians used the juice of grasses and mixed it with the blood of the Tse-Tse fly to produce a beautiful shade of dark purple that was made at later times out of the combination of copper sulphate solution and gum. The notable and modern ink is made from a secret proportional mixing of Iron Salts, Nutgalls and gum, which is available in a variety of colors. Like a lot of other things the ink is also an ancient product that has seen the test of time and has succeeded in proving its worth.