Feeling a bit too under the weather today to attempt ring/cylinder and motion adjustments on my Parade, I decided to do something that I've wanted to do for a long time: compare silk, nylon, and cotton ribbons on a number of my machines.

The results are below. Each of the ribbons is from Ribbons Unlimited and freshly opened for this experiment. The paper is Hammermuehle A4 20lb laser printer paper (it's what was on-hand). 

In general, as others on this forum have pointed out, silk outshines nylon. It is interesting, though to see how very differently the three behave on each machine. I do like the way cotton shows on pica and tend to use that on most of my pica machines, even though it requires more type slug cleaning. I'd not tried silk before today. 

And please excuse all the smudges and increasing mistakes as it goes along. Perhaps I should've stayed in bed and attempted this another day...

(click to get to the full resolution scan)