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The origin of ink belongs to an era following the invention of writing and there is no definitive history of ink, ironic really, when it was the medium used to preserve the archives, and historic records that tell us much of our past: ink is history, in the common acceptation of the word, for what is generally denominated history- is ink diffused on paper.

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