Speedball Professional Relief Ink Supergraphic Black 16OZ

When just starting in lino carving I was trying to find affordable supplies. The price of this ink was very reasonable and it's a lot of ink! Just takes a little bit to do a series of prints. It's oil base so dry time is slower than water base. In the learning curve that is a plus because the ink doesn't dry up on the lino block while you're printing. I use it for mono (one color) prints. On some pieces, I come back with watercolor paints to add highlights. Take some time to clean up the inside of the lid and the lip around the canister to make use less messy. Good ink at a good value.

Absolutely love this stuff!! Amazon needs to work on packaging it for shipping because two of the 4 so far have shown up dented and leaking BUT the product is great. The foreground of my photo is a proof pressing of the phlanto blue vs the a water based speedball ink used to do the orginal proof. My next two pieces are multi color so I'll really get to finally focus on the absorption/"dry" time officially finally but overall it should not be an issue if you are not pressed for time. I'm assuming itll be a few day process based on how long single colors have taken me so far. Beautiful pigment, very opaque, thick to spread but no mineral spirits needed and that was huuuuuge. I'm basically buying a color a week at this point, they're that good.

Got worried by all the reviews saying it arrived leaking. It looks like they've taken steps to remedy this. It has some heavy duty tape wrapped around the lid and wasn't leaking.

Pro: LOVE this product's jet black color and thickness as I work with Lino printmaking. You cant a blacks depth anywhere else. I've tried multiple brands. Con: Extremely messy. If you've never would with loose ink , I would recommend going for ink in a tube instead. If you do happen to work with this, the best way to clean it up is with Dove dish detergent and water. DO NOT get lazy and wait a day to clean up; it will be harder.

These inks are great, and rival other oil based printmaking oils out there. Be careful when unboxing and opening these, though. They were placed upside down in the box which led to a tiny bit of leakage on a few and caused air bubbles in the cans themselves that I remedied by taking the plastic skin off and tapping the can’s bottom. Overall, I completely recommend these for intermediate printmakers and I see myself using these for quite a long time.

I'm several months into learning block printing so I haven't tried other brands but these inks were a HUGE step up from the Speedball starter set. I've gotten beautiful results with fine details and the process color inks combine beautifully to make the exact shade I'm after. Good opacity, dry to a nice velvetty finish on smooth paper. If dry time is too fast, use the included retarder. I haven't had any issues with dry time but I'm working small. My favorite though is the ink extender -- I use this to make my layers translucent for different color interaction effects. My only complaint is that if I use too much of the extender, there's a definite texture when I roll the ink out. That might be an issue with my brayer, though.

The ink itself is great, but like other reviewers stated mine came dented and a dried layer of film on top. 4 days into drying and it was still not dry, even in a very dry climate. My dog, who was curious tested the prints out while I was at work, and we found smudges and prints everywhere. Thankfully, it does clean up easily with soap and water.

Bought the six pack. Every single one is completely ruined. Crusty goo everywhere, opened up and all of them are dried out with the nasty skin over them - ruined, cannot be used, waste. Trying for a replacement, no faith that the next will be any better. Angry.

Sadly it was leaking when it arrived

This arrived damaged

Really loving working with this ink. I’ve been printing lino on kraft cardstock with it and the prints look great, and they dry fairly quickly too. I love that everything washes up easily too.

Esta tinta es de lo mejor en el mercado para grabado en relieve. Recomendado!

Well, I'm used to using tubes of oil-based black ink, to do my lino-prints with, but I thought I would give this product a go. The ink that I regularly use comes out of the old-style tubes very thick, and sticky, which is good, and the rolling of the ink out on a glass plate is also very good and efficient, but this stuff (which was quite expensive) was hardly sticky at all, and I found that it was pretty horrible to use. After ten minutes of trying it, I threw the pot of it in the refuse bin! Good!... Back to the tubes!