Reynolds Erasable Ink (from France)

[Okami]

I'd like to share my new blog post about some interesting erasable ink from France.

 

Please see the full post with photos here: Reynolds Encre Effacable from France. Following is the text of the post:

 

 

This post is about some very interesting fountain pen ink, Reynolds Erasable ink which I received from my friend and follow blogger of Mr. Sir's Blog, you can also follow him on Twitter @ecram.

 

I was not able to find any information about this ink, except in French which I can't read. So I'm just going to tell you about it.

 

This ink comes in standard cartridges and the carts that Eric sent are blue. I'm not sure if it comes in other colors or not.

 

This ink comes with an interesting accessory, it's own eraser and what I have termed "the repairman". The eraser end is effectively a marker which contains some sort of secret solution which magically erases the fountain pen ink from the paper. After you have used this marker, you are no longer able to use the fountain pen ink on the area of the paper which has been treated, so in comes the repairman which is used to rewrite the erased words, if needed.

 

I have used this in my journal with great success, no need to cross out misspelled words - YAY! The photos here show it on Rhodia paper which also worked will, however the ink color from the repairman did not match up as well, I think that it just reacts differently to different types of paper.

[mooshi]

I believe those things are called "ink eradicators."

 

-- Moo

[Anne-Sophie]

Yup!

 

Used them in France for all my class work.

 

Lifesavers, I call them. Crossing out was not well regarded when I was handwriting all my essays.

 

The day they'll be imported in the U.S, I'll jump so high the USGS is going to have to check their seismographs.

 

Pelikan makes them too, but they also do not import them in the U.S but they do in Canada.

[aloofy]

When I visited France last winter, the first place I ran to was one of the 'papeterie', and I found the same Reynolds effacable bleu ink cartridges..

Well, not exactly the same; they were the same international size, but were packed in bulk, about 50-60 cartridges in a plastic bag.

Compared to the price of ink cartridges in my country(Korea), it was incredibly cheap, so I bought 2 bags of them. And bought 4 'erasers' to go with them.

 

The eraser can be used on any type of blue ink(except Blue-Black); I tried it with Parker Quink Blue and Lamy Blue, and it works very well.

 

Personally, I found the Reynolds ink drying too quickly in the cartridge. Even regarding that ink tend to 'evaporate' when untouched for a long time, Reynolds

was worse than other kinds of ink I've used. I wonder whther it is the fault of ink quality itself or due to the fact that the cartridges were not 'sealed'

perfectly. Or maybe I was just unlucky..

[GouletPens]

The J. Herbin 'Bleu Myosotis' is erasable as well. I haven't tried it for myself yet, but that's how it's advertised anyway. Supposedly that's the color of J. Herbin used by Louis XIV, too.

[kmeredith923]

I just came across this in Korean Hawaii type stationery sets that I got online for a couple of dollars you get a cute little fountain pen, 5 cartridges, a converter and the eraser marker. Mind = Blown. ..although I found a downside in that one the eraser fluid touches paper, you'll never be able to write there with the erasable ink again. That was not a happy surprise, lol