To register to vote, you still need a wet-ink signature.

Registration of a security interest either requires an original document or a "wet-ink" certified true copy.

"It is basically a new twist on a classic product," said Dan Fedoryshyn, the wet-ink products manager for the company, headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn.

Years ago, the Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood took matters into her own hands and conceived The LongPen, which permits the remote signing of "wet-ink" signatures.

Tung's own eclecticism - his styles shift constantly, from wet-ink brushwork to a finicky line drawing to a spare but detailed naturalism - brings a brash, modern charge to a landscape tradition often valued in the West for its placidity.

Stone's engraving was made using a wet-ink transfer process, where the surface of the document was moistened, and some of the original ink transferred to the surface of a copper plate, which was then etched so that copies could be run off the plate on a press.

Perhaps it’s the same for a group like the International Contemporary Ensemble when it turns its attention to Mozart and, in the context of its usual wet-ink repertory, Schoenberg, as it did in a Mostly Mozart concert on Thursday evening at Alice Tully Hall.