5000 Years Back in China....))

5000 years back in China, history of ink ensued. Chinese are credited for the oldest recipe, made from pine smoke, lamp oil and gelatin from animal skins and musk the first known form of ink materialized.

Another early variety of ink is Egyptian ink wherein dyes were naturally extracted from certain sea creatures like Squids, from outer coating on nuts and seeds and even metals! Ink extracted from iron salts and from Walnut often acquired a golden hue after some time.

Usage of ink and its form kept on improving over centuries. In 15th Century European innovation lead to the shift from Greek and Roman water based ink to oil based ink extracted from turpentine and Walnut oil suited for the revolutionary printing press.

Well, all this was before the electronic pixels flooded your computer screen, looks like we have covered a long way, ain't it?!