Ink is a colored liquid.
Ink is the colored liquid used to write or draw through a suitable instrument . This liquid usually contains different pigments that allow a surface to be colored with the intention of creating texts or images.
Ballpoint pens and printers that connect to computers use ink, a term that comes from the Latin tincta ( "to dye" ). For example: "My pen no longer has ink: can I borrow yours?" , "My daughter asked me for a red ink pen to write in her notebook," "The printer ran out of ink, I need you to go buy a new cartridge."
Ink types
The different types of ink present notable differences between themselves. Historians believe that the first inks were created around 400 BC with gum and soot. This ink was used with pens or brushes to write. Another ancient ink was made from mollusks.
Indian ink , on the other hand, is produced using ground charcoal, caked and compacted with vegetable resins or other substances that can act as glue.
In the case of inkjet printers , the ink is included in a cartridge . It is common for these devices to include a cartridge for black and another with magenta, yellow and cyan, which depending on their proportions allow creating different types of colors .
Pens use ink.
The case of animals
However, we cannot ignore the existence of another type of ink that is very important within the animal world. It is the liquid that certain cephalopods expel to defend themselves. This would be the case, for example, of the octopus that, through this secretion, clouds the water in which it is found and that allows it to escape from whoever is stalking it.
However, this ink and other variants, suitable for human consumption, are used in the field of gastronomy. Hence, there are various and exquisite dishes that rely on that to give the necessary touch to the recipe. A clear example of this is squid in its ink .
All of this without forgetting that ink, also called dye or tincture in this case, is used to refer to any color substance that is used in the field of hairdressing to change the tone of the hair of a person in question. .
The term ink in different expressions
There are various phrases that we use in our everyday language and that use the term ink that we are analyzing. Thus, for example, we find the expression "to know something from a good source." What it tries to express with it is that a person has complete and exhaustive knowledge of a specific event, basically because they have witnessed it or because they have been conveniently informed by those who have been involved in it.
Of course, we must not forget the expression "charge the inks" . It is used to make it clear that something has been intentionally exaggerated.
The phrase "half measures" , finally, refers to sayings or facts that reveal a certain suspicion : "The accused spoke in half measures and did not clarify too much about the case" , "I am going to say what I think without half measures" .