City Ink

I bought my City Ink on a special sale at Oink, but they don't seem to be selling it right now, and they have only once sold it in the refill-bottles which I bought. They currently sell it in individual mops, however. Here's a link to those.

Anyhoo, I wanted to try City Ink because it looked cool. Not much more I can say about it. I bought it because it was available in a refill bottle for only $5. Totally worth it--I bought two. The two colors I got (which were chosen by the Oink fellas) were orange (mop paint) and a blue (dye-based ink.)

One thing I want to mention now, before I go on any further, is that City Ink puts all other inks/paints to shame in respect to the packaging of their products (except for Zombie Ink, and a few others too obscure for me to know off the top of my head.) This is because City Ink features a little pull-out spout that makes it about a jillion times easier to fill your mops. Honestly, why do so few paint companies do this? Thanks to City Ink's genius/logic (whichever you prefer) I don't need gloves, a funnel, cleaning agents, or Tylenol to fill up my mops. Flip, invert, squeeze, re-vert, close. You're done. Ta-daaaaa...

Now, as for the actual product, City Ink is definitely a decent ink (at $5 a bottle, it's a really good ink.)

I ran the dye-based ink through a Molotow Transformer marker with a bullet-tip nib, and it worked like a charm. The ink flowed through it well, and I was even able to use it in my blackbook with it barely bleeding through the page. I also ran it through an Acee's Smash Supreme mop--this was a mistake. The moe-hair nib made this thin ink come out way too heavily, and that particular mop is just a catastrophe in itself. More on that in a different post, however. This ink is actually pretty pigment-heavy, and I assume it's because it's dye-based. The blue color is a lot like Grog Ink, if I had to compare it to any other kind of ink. Continuing that comparison, City Ink is darker than Grog... Cuz it's dye-based, I guess... Yeah, I've got nothing else on that...

As is to be expected with thin mop fluids, City dye-based Ink gives thin, squirrel-ey drips which I've never been a particular fan of, but others might, so its up to yallz to decide.

Now: the paint. City Ink mop paint is a good paint. That's about it. Sometimes it applies with some bubbles, which is bad on any tag, but other than that it applies nicely, although the drips aren't particularly thick. Honestly, there isn't much to say about it. It's good. If you like mop paints, buy it next time Oink sells it so cheap, if they ever do.

See the bubbles?

Pros: Super cheap, the dye is heavily-pigmented, the paint is solid, opaque, and nice color choice, and SPOUT-CAP (I cannot stress how convenient those are.)

Cons: Squirrel-ey drips, bubbles