Pilot Bottled Ink Safe For Documents?

[Salexanderburke]

Are Pilot's Bottled inks safe for endorsing checks and signing other legal documents and such?

 

Or should I just play it safe and get Noodler's Bullet Proof Black?

 

I have black Pilot cartridges and I really LOVE the colour of this ink, so I'm hoping that Pilot is safe, but if not, I'll happily make the switch.

 

Does anyone know?

[professionaldilettante]

I can say that Pilot blue=black can be removed with acetone, but not alcohol. It also fades. Even the bulletproof inks can be blasted off with lasers. What you really want are the micro-pigment inks, like Sailor's carbon, or even Unibal's gel pens with Super ink in it.

[Immoteus]

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "safe" for endorsing cheques or documents. But if you're inquiring about the ink from a security standpoint; you would fare better with Noodler's Bulletproof Ink or Iron-Gall Ink.

[haziz]

Any inks is safe for signing checks and documents.

[ajcoleman]

If you buying an ink based strictly on security, you would probably be a better off with some of the bulletproof or Warden series inks. That said, I feel perfectly safe using a water resistant ink like Pilot for nearly any document I write these days. Handing my credit card to a total stranger when I pay my bill at a restaurant is a far bigger risk than any ink I would use on a check.

[nicholasyeo]

Kiwa-guro nano carbon black is very good for that purpose!

[welch]

Any inks is safe for signing checks and documents.

 

Exactly right.

 

- Checks are scanned when presented to a bank for payment. From that point, everything is bits and bytes because that's the only efficient way to settle.

 

- Documents are scanned and often shredded, because paper originals take too much space. When I worked at GE and later at SWIFT (see swift.com), we kept contracts in files that got bigger and bigger...until around 2005 when I saw SWIFT begin to keep everything in electronic images. At this year's SIBOS, a huge banking conference, GE's treasury group explained why the company would no longer accept printed account statements from their banks; they want PDF copies sent over SWIFT because GE needs to store the documents for a long time and in multiple locations and in a way that makes it easy to pull up a report from a particular account from a particular month ten years ago.

 

No ink can protect against forgery...against someone getting a blank check and writing your name in it, or writing your name on a contract. And, as mentioned above, you are much more at risk from versions of identity theft.

Edited February 26, 2012 by welch

[Sidney]

I use any ink that withstands a minor moisture attack (i.e. a couple of drops of rain) and can resist smudging after I release the document for reasons stated above.

 

Even the bulletproof inks can be blasted off with lasers. What you really want are the micro-pigment inks, like Sailor's carbon, or even Unibal's gel pens with Super ink in it.

The micro-pigment inks (e.g. Sailor's Carbon Black and uni Super ink) never offered a reward for their removal like Noodler's did. Noodler's Warden series now steps up to the plate to beat all the tools, current and potential, of the forger's trade.

[Laura N]

Any inks is safe for signing checks and documents.

 

Exactly right.

 

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No ink can protect against forgery...against someone getting a blank check and writing your name in it, or writing your name on a contract. And, as mentioned above, you are much more at risk from versions of identity theft.

 

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