Pelikan Royal Blue Ink/Eradicators Short Review

[woodwindmaster06]

Sorry Don't Have a Scanner to make this a really good review. But here I go: I got my shipment in and here is the 2nd review of that: the first was the pen case:

Now the 10 Ink Eradicators in Broad eradicator tips, and the 250 mL bottle of ink.

The ink is a good flowing normal blue ink with violet hint, it doesn't stand out too much but overall a very good ink.

 

The eradicators work incredible! I have never seen anything like this you just touch the ink with these and it disappears in less than a second, then its ready to write with the opposite side of the eradicator, you have to watch that you don't put too much eradication on otherwise it may smear the new ink with the liquid on the page. The color is exactly the same as the normal ink.

This is a great little inexpensive invention that Pelikan has done, it will do wonders this year once I get back to classes.

 

Overall: great ink, great eradicators: full endorsement of them.

(Oh by the way: the eradicator is 7 inches capped, so it fits perfectly in my case)

 

Tim

 

Edit: for those interested the large bottles of pelikan ink have to different set of holes one larger one smaller to make pouring into the empty ink bottles easier, you will need empty ink bottles to use it, so I just went ahead and got the PR mixing kit with the ink bottles in it.

Edited July 24, 2005 by woodwindmaster06

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

Where did you get the eradicators? (Pelikan Super-pirat) Pendemonium sells them, but I have to pay shipping.

 

Dillon

[woodwindmaster06]

I got them from Pendemonium, I think they are temporarily out of stock though. Shipping should'nt be too bad for them they are not heavy and don't cost much at all.

Tim

[scribble]

I see it works with Royal Blue ink only. Have you tried it on any other colors or brands of ink yet?

 

In a similar vein, delayed due to the recent heat wave (no a/c), I got a bottle of Herbin Blue Myosotis to test for erasibility after reading it was erasible on the Swisher site. I'm going to empty a pen and load some this weekend to find out if it really is.

 

Probably not viable for extensive alterations unless a very durable paper. Like Arches hot press watercolor paper for example.

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

The eradicator only works on washable colours, so do not expect it to work on the permanent colours.

 

Dillon

[woodwindmaster06]

So far it has only worked on the pel blue.

Tim

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

Can you try it on Parker Washable blue?

 

Dillon

[woodwindmaster06]

I could if I had some. But right now I just have: Pelikan: Blue, Brown: Waterman Brown, PR Black Magic Blue, and Montblanc Black, perhaps I will pick up a bottle of that Parker Wahsable blue if it at any of my local pen shops.

Tim

[woodwindmaster06]

Looks like that ink is vintage ink so most likely I will not be able to test it out.

Tim

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

Vintage? My local shop sells it. Parker says that they make it too.

 

Dillon

[woodwindmaster06]

I'll check next time im in.

Tim

[scribble]

Update: I was unable to erase JHerbin Bleu Myosotis at all after trying three different erasers.

[*david*]

I think it's only meant to be erasable with a liquid eradicator, not with any kind of pencil eraser.

[Stylo]

Any typical washable blue should be erasable with an eradicator, which by the way can be found in pretty much every European schooler's pen case They has an funny smell too.

[stypen]

As stylo said, pretty much any European blue ink is erasable, because most European schoolchildren write with fountain pens and use the eraser pens. (If you are ever in Europe, you can pick the eradicators up cheap in any drug store, in generic or brand names. You can also pick up giant bags of generic-brand international-size cartridges for a tiny fraction of the price they are in the US--and this ink is usually of good quality). Note, by the way, that the "Washable" in the name of the blue color of Waterman cartridges is translated into the French and German as "erasible" as that is what it really means/implies.

 

Parker (I believe) used to specifically make a permanent blue alongside their "Washable/erasable" blue.

 

The only "standard" color dark blue ink I have found that is not specifically marked permanent, but is NOT erasable, is CROSS BLUE INK. I found this out today by coincidence. This means that the only way to use a Cross pen with an eradicator is to use bottled ink from Pelikan, Waterman, Parker, Montblanc, etc.

 

However, I do not know of any non-blue ink that is erasable. I think it is just a blue thing. Anyone know the chemistry behind this?

 

PS: While we are on strange questions: why does Waterman blue ink smell funny?

Edited December 6, 2005 by stypen

[Michael R.]

The molecular structure of the used blue pigments (Triaryl-methane-dyes) makes them appear colored (complimentary colors are reflected = blue while the yellow is absorbed by the molecular structure).

 

Using an ink eraser (which contains either Na2SO3 or Na2S2O4) results in a simple chemical reaction which changes the molecular structure of the used dye.

 

Due to the chemical change the dye now only absorbs UV-light and NO visible light anymore - this way it looks colorless to us.

 

Also sulphoric components result using an ink eraser which you can smell using it :-)

 

Here is what happens during the reaction:

 

http://people.freenet.de/pensninks/inkeraser.jpg

 

 

This is why it only works with certain dyes.

 

 

The smell of older Waterman ink is phenol which has been used as an preservative agent.

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Michael

[zxc]

I'd just like to echo the comments about the availability in Europe.

 

And very interesting explanation above. Thanks a lot for that!

Edited December 6, 2005 by zxc

[stypen]

Wow: Ask and ye shall receive!

 

Thanks Michael R. !

 

(Of course you wrote out the expanation using a fountan pen...very nice...)

 

Has Waterman stopped making the smelly blue ink? I haven't used it for a couple years, but I thought it still smelled then... maybe I was using up older cartridges.

[Michael R.]

...I didn't install "Chem Draw" on my new computer so I had to draw those by hand :-) (Omas Paragon; "OB" nib using Yard-O-Led Blue Black).

 

 

Newer bottles of Waterman don't have the phenolic scent they used to have anymore but don't know when they changed the formula exactly; must be during the last 5 years.

 

 

Cheers

 

Michael

[zxc]

...I didn't install "Chem Draw" on my new computer so I had to draw those by hand :-)

 

Hand drawn is always better

 

*curses technology*