On my newest, coolest, neatest pair of jeans I have an ink stain - I had my Sheaffer NoNonsense pen with a black sheaffer cartridge in it and the cap worked loose and the rest is history.

Is it possible to get it out? I forgot all about it until today when I looked through my laundry basket - apparently my mother washed it but it still hasn't come out..

It's best to properly treat the stains before washing. Now that it's been through the dryer, it will be harder to get out. There are some ink removers out there that work well - perhaps someone will suggest one of those.

For a fresh stain, run it under lots of cold water ASAP, working the fabric to help get the ink out. Then put some stain remover on it - I've had good experiences with Shout Gel. After it soaks for an hour or two, I put it in the wash with regular detergent and some Color Safe Chlorox. Thus far, I've had no stain resist this treatment, although I haven't tried it on Noodlers permanent grades which I would expect to resist it as they chemically bond with cellulose.

Hi John,

Applying Ink Nix, "the world's best ink remover", should do the trick. It got the red ink, which I tried to rinse off, and that dried in for weeks, from a couple of celluloid pens off quite easily, in a matter of minutes...

HTH, warm regards, Wim

careful with the Ink Nix - someone here used it on an article of clothing and it removed the clothing dye as well as the ink dye.

test in a hidden area first.

Didn't know that! Thanks for that tip, KCat!

Warm regards, Wim

Could be worse. I have a small desk that I use for everything, comptering, listening to music (both through the speakers and iPod earbuds attached to the computer), watching DVDs, etc. When I want to write, I fold the top down on my computer and use that as a writing platform. You'll note the blue blotted paper towel next to the laptop picture.

Yesterday, when I woke up and looked in the mirror, I noticed both of my ears were blue. American Blue.

...ahem... mmm... I mean, that's unfortunate. Did you manage to return your ears to their original ...phehh... non-blue ...chortle... status?

Ryan.

That's why some online stores say that Ink Nix is not for clothing, and that Amodex Ink Stain Remover is for clothing.

I've used Amodex on an ink stain on clothing, and Ink Nix on ink stains on my hands, with very pleasing results.

Both products must be applied directly to the stain, while the rest of the fabric is dry, and rubbed for the manufacturers' specified lengths of time, with no water involved beyond the tiny bit in the Amodex or Ink Nix. Then rinse.

John, your Sheaffer Skrip Jet Black (whether old stock or Slovenian, no difference here) stain should still be removeable with Amodex, but it might take several treatments and rinsings. It will take a few days, because you'll have to wait for the pants to air dry between Amodex treatments.

Ink Nix would have gotten HDoug's earlobe back to its pre-sleeptime color in about a minute

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Thanks for all your help! I'll tell my mother about Amodex - she swears by hair spray, though..

I've also fallen asleep on a notebook with fountain pen ink on it - Waterman's Fl. Blue - I woke up with a lot of blue on my face!

Hair spray is more or less oil-based. Fountain pen ink is water-based (unlike ballpoint ink, which is more or less oil-based, and permanent-marker ink, which is definitely oil-based).

Hair spray might actually seal over the fountain-pen-ink-stained fibers.

Apply the method of persuasion which is the most effective on your mother, and also the most welcomed from you by her, to convince her to let you work on the stain using Amodex! If it helps to persuade her, tell her I'll pay for it!

One of my favorite Halloween costumes, before I decided to try to keep my beard more or less permanently, was to dress like a newspaper: a bathrobe with newspaper pinned all over it, clown white makeup on my face and forehead, lines drawn with clown black on my cheeks, an economic graph in clown black with a curve that passes over an eyelid, and the title of the newspaper in "gothic" style in clown black on my forehead.

I've never worked as a clown (and I have enormous respect for people who do!); the clown makeup was the non-professional, store-bought-just-before-Halloween type.

Back to the topic: Was the WM FL Blue stain legible ?

I believe most of it was just a smudge of blue ink but in the middle of the smudge could be found, almost unreadable, the word, "stupid" or somesuch monniker.

OK, I'll stop there.

I got my shirt stained as my pen wasn't properly capped and made it nib down into the bottom of the shirt's pocket . Peacock Blue on pink shirt <_<...looked really nice actually. Then I remembered a PBS program I saw a while ago about a book on cleaning tips and some other "quick-fix" household ideas . Anyway, I took the milk jug out of the fridge, poured (me?) a glass, took off my shirt, put the stained part inside the (cold) milk, left it overnight. That worked like magic! No trace of the stain in the morning! Just had to rinse with tap water afterwards . I'd assume that method would work on any fabric (at least milk won't do harm I guess).

L:E:A

Milk.... interesting!

Anyone see the new Pink Panther, when the Directeur puts his pen back in his pocket?