Ink & Paper Pack
The chart has two variables. The one you can actually change is the third
The compatibility chart has two variables and the problem has four. This separates feathering from show-through from bleed-through, places your own nib and your own ink on the same scale, and prints the full matrix at every flow class — plus dry time, which runs the opposite way to everything else. Then the question nobody asks after the matrix: of the combinations that work, which can you afford to write in every day? An extra-fine on a dry ink uses a seventh of what a 1.5 mm stub on a saturated ink does. 13 pages, printable, with a ten-minute test protocol and a fill-in sheet.
Look inside
3 full pages from the pack, exactly as printed. Click any of them to read it at full size before you decide.
What is in it
- Why feathering, show-through and bleed-through are three failures, not one
- How to place your own ink on a flow scale without a lab, from how it writes
- How to place your own nib by measuring the line, not reading the letter stamped on it
- The full matrix: 7 nib sizes x 5 paper stocks, at all four ink flows
- Show-through and bleed-through scored separately — one follows thickness, the other sizing
- Why cardstock is the heaviest stock here and still carries bleed risk
- Touch-dry times by nib and stock, for wet and medium inks
- The left-hander's table: why the most recommended paper is the one that smears
- What to change when a pairing is wrong, ordered cheapest first, per stock
- The point at which each stock starts to fail — how much headroom it really has
- Every stock with sizing shown beside weight, the column the packet omits
- What each nib-and-ink combination costs to write in, as a multiple of a medium
- Pages from a bottle, by nib and ink flow
- How to measure your own millilitres a page in ten minutes — and why the flat default cannot be right
- A kit worked end to end: a broad nib, a saturated ink and office paper, before and after
- How to test a pairing yourself in ten minutes, and a fill-in sheet for your own kit
- ✓ 13 printable pages
- ✓ 16 reference tables and checklists
- ✓ A second PDF worked out from the numbers you enter
- ✓ No account needed — just an email address
- ✓ Instant download; link valid 7 days
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The pack complements the free calculators — they do the arithmetic, it carries the specifications and the plan they cannot know.