Review: Monteverde Ink Eradicator Pen

[ErrantSmudge]

At the 2017 Los Angeles Pen Show, Monteverde gave all show attendees a gift sample of their Malibu Blue ink, as well as an interesting novelty: an ink eradicator pen.

 

 

The ink eradicator pen is double-ended. The white side contains a broad felt tip marker with an ink neutralizing substance. The blue side contains a fine-tipped marker, which makes corrections in blue.

 

Monteverde specifically says the eradicator works only with their Malibu Blue ink.

 

About the Test

 

I tested the eradicator pen with Malibu Blue ink in a Cross ATX pen with a medium nib, using three kinds of paper:

• 20 lb. copy paper
• A Tops legal note pad (in yellow)
• Clairefontaine paper (graph style)

Erasing Mistakes

 

Here's the starting writing sample.

 

 

After eradicating the middle "mistaken" line of text, here's how the samples looked.

 

 

Correcting Mistakes

 

Next, I tried using the eradicator's corrector pen. I over-wrote the word "Malibu" to the left using Malibu Blue ink, and the word "Corrector" using the corrector pen. It's easy to see why Monteverde provides the corrector pen - once you cover an area of paper with the eradicator, you can no longer write on it with the Malibu Blue ink. The Malibu ink disappears along with the original writing.

 

 

It's worth noting the correcting pen is close in color to Malibu Blue, but is not an exact match. Malibu Blue is a bit more purplish than the corrector.

 

Tests with Other Inks

 

Finally, I wanted to test Monteverde's claim that the eradicator works only with Malibu Blue ink. I prepared a sample sheet of several blue inks on 20 lb. copy paper. I included three other Monteverde blues I have on hand - Capri, Horizon, and Sapphire. I also included Lamy Blue, Aurora Blue, and two blue-blacks. Finally, I included two black inks: Aurora Black, and Noodler's Heart of Darkness (HOD). Heart of Darkness in particular is a "bulletproof" ink and should be unaffected by the eradicator.

 

(The blue-blacks and blacks except HOD were written with a dip pen, excuse the blobbiness).

 

 

As you can see, the ink eradicator did work effectively with Lamy Blue ink, as well as Aurora Blue. It worked partially with Waterman Blue-black, erasing one component of the ink and leaving a green line behind. The blacks, as well as the other Monteverde blue inks were unaffected, though Monteverde Sapphire did smear noticeably from the eradicator pen.

Edited March 15, 2017 by ErrantSmudge

[antichresis]

Thank you for this. I had always assumed (blindly) that eradicators and eradicable inks were similar to each other even if they were from different manufacturers. It is funny to see the eradicator working better on other brands.

[Anne-Sophie]

 

I do hope to see those soon available in places where one can get Monteverde pens.

 

Ink eradicators have been popular in Europe for a long time, Lamy and other brands make them.

 

They work for all the erasable blue inks like Lamy, Waterman and Pelikan blue, plain blue, not blue black.

 

 

[amberleadavis]

Wow, this was good to see. Thank you.