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Basically all the companies that make pigment inks for fountain pens (or iron-gall inks for that matter) say that you should clean between uses and stuff, but I think it's basically just ass covering so if you let your ink dry and clog up they can say it's all on you.
But in my experience you absolutely don't have to that often. I haven't tried the Octopus fluids inks yet, I want to! But I use pigment inks from R&K, Platinum, and Sailor and haven't needed to adopt any kind of special cleaning practice.
The octopods use a crosslinker. So the ink might slowly polymerise in the pen, which would be sad.
Ah, that could be a problem. Maybe use for a while in a sacrifice pen to see? I have some cheap Jin Haos that are actuality pretty good pens (thank you China), but if they get fucked up I'm not gonna feel too bad spending like $5 on another vs much more expensive pens
I'm confident I could clean the pen out, it's more that I want my pen to "just work". Like if I get it out of a drawer for the first time in a month and it's clogged and needs a clean that makes the ink not suitable for being a pen ink, as that is a typical way a pen might be used.
Inks are expensive enough I'll probably just find some reliable option. I'm just very annoyed, hunter green is a very nice green with good properties. Rarely clogged, flowed well, solid coverage but a fast dry, cleans off skin and plastic with just water but stains pages.
Couldn't he have just been regular unpleasant and not a complete lunatic? I mean slavery... really? really? It's fucking slavery mate.
That's fair. I will say, three biggest factor for that isn't going to be ink it's going to be how well the pen's cap seals. Same ink same conditions, different pens will dry out at very different rates.