Teachers Red Ink

[Bass2trout]

I am looking for a teachers red ink and am looking for suggestions. the only red ink that i currently have is noodlers Nikita. i am looking for suggestions for other red inks that are similar to a traditional red teachers ink that you used to see on your school work. any suggestions would be appreciated.

[ZaphodBB]

Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Red or Waterman Audacious Red both remind me of the many marks left on my homework!

[ParkerDuofold]

Hi Bass2Trout,

 

I'm not a teacher... I don't even play one on TV, but I have to make a lot of important and/or emphatic remarks (and edits)... and when I do... I'll only use Diamine Matador Red. It is a deep, rich and TRUE red.

 

I know the historical standard for teachers has always been Sheaffer Red, but I find it too dry for my tastes.

 

At any rate, thank you for your service at being a teacher... never forget you hold our future in your hands...

 

...so don't screw it up!

 

 

- Anthony

Edited July 13, 2017 by ParkerDuofold

[OCArt]

+1 for Sheaffer red, certainly a classic ink and a very good red color.

[mulrich]

I use MB corn poppy red. Well behaved and nice color

[ac12]

 

 

+1 for Sheaffer red, certainly a classic ink and a very good red color.

 

+1

 

But my teachers use red ball pens.

[martinbir]

Not a teacher, but I do use red for mark-up and Diamine Classic Red is just the job. Aptly named (for a change) and not too wet so it dries fast. Used nothing else for about four years now.

[EHV]

+2 Sheaffer Skrip red. First time trying it last week and my first thought was "teacher red".

 

To add that it did not stain my converter and was surprisingly very easy to wash out/clean.

 

Come to find out that this is a red that Richard Binder actually recommends. It's priced very well too.

+1 for Sheaffer red, certainly a classic ink and a very good red color.

[TSherbs]

+2 Sheaffer Skrip red. First time trying it last week and my first thought was "teacher red".

 

To add that it did not stain my converter and was surprisingly very easy to wash out/clean.

 

Come to find out that this is a red that Richard Binder actually recommends. It's priced very well too.

+3 for Sheaffer. I use it to grade my students' work. It spreads the least on cheap paper and is a true red.

[MrsHobie]

In France most of the teachers use Bic ball point pen

The easiest ink to find in France is the Audacious Red from Waterman (you can find it even in supermarkets)

I don't correct in red, I'm fed up with it ... I'm using teal, pink, purple, dark reds such as MB Burgundy Red and most of the time it's Iroshizuki Yu-yake (orange)

Edited July 13, 2017 by MrsHobie

[lapis]

Diamine's Poppy or Wild Strawberry has often been used for such a job.

 

Mike

[kestrel]

I used Nikita for several years, long enough to completely use up a 4.5 ounce bottle. I also used Skrip Red but this year stumbled across Noodler's Rattler Red. Bright, safe, and well behaved on most student papers and those papers where it bled through Skrip did the same thing. I graded with a 2016 Ranga Model 8, a Sheaffer's Admiral and Statesman, and a Vintage Conklin Endura. Great ink in all four.

[evyxmsj]

I mark up engineering drawings with Waterman Audacious Red

[JefferyS]

I am a teacher, but don't use red for comments. If I had to, I would lean toward Diamine Oxblood. Or if you really want the comments to stand out, Diamine Pumpkin (an orange). Yama Budo might be called reddish, and is a pleasant color.

[FPFan]

Sheaffer Red is the truest Red for almost every red ink occasion from teacher's marking ink, Valentine's, Christmas, etc!

 

Second choice would be Noodler's Nikita.

[NicolausPiscator]

Red for teachers... for me it is important to use a nice red and a characteristic red. That's why I use Herbin's Rouge hématite.

[ParkerDuofold]

Hi all,

 

Not to be the Resident PITA, but I'm really surprised at how popular Sheaffer Red is.

 

I tried it in a Preppy; an X-450 and something else... all were tuned to be wet writers,... but I found it painfully dry; whereas Diamine Matador Red, (and probably their other reds), flows like mercury and feels like liquid silk under the nib. (I found Waterman red excessively dry, too).

 

I'm just surprised Sheaffer is as popular as it is, given the very unpleasant (to me) writing experience it gives compared to Diamine red(s)... which proved to me, a red ink need not write like colored sand.

 

I've also heard that Sheaffer's is the perfect shade of red; well,... for the sake of argument, let's say that it is,... but isn't a much more pleasurable writing experience superior to just the "perfect" shade of red?

 

 

Oh, well... such is life... to each, his own... but I still don't get it.

 

 

Be well... and enjoy life.

 

 

- Anthony

[TSherbs]

Sounds like you got a s#@#@ bottle

[kestrel]

Hi all,

 

Not to be the Resident PITA, but I'm really surprised at how popular Sheaffer Red is.

 

I tried it in a Preppy; an X-450 and something else... all were tuned to be wet writers,... but I found it painfully dry; whereas Diamine Matador Red, (and probably their other reds), flows like mercury and feels like liquid silk under the nib. (I found Waterman red excessively dry, too).

 

I'm just surprised Sheaffer is as popular as it is, given the very unpleasant (to me) writing experience it gives compared to Diamine red(s)... which proved to me, a red ink need not write like colored sand.

 

I've also heard that Sheaffer's is the perfect shade of red; well,... for the sake of argument, let's say that it is,... but isn't a much more pleasurable writing experience superior to just the "perfect" shade of red?

 

 

Oh, well... such is life... to each, his own... but I still don't get it.

 

 

Be well... and enjoy life.

 

 

- Anthony

Remember that a lot of our students submit work on the cheapest, most fountain pen unfriendly paper imaginable. Or worse. Skrip and Nikita and Rattler Red and some of the others mentioned here don't bleed through (much) and don't feather (as ferociously) as some other inks. Some of the papers I got would produce a 2 mm wide line from a vintage fine Conklin nib as well as bleed through to leave marks on the page below. I have seen paper towels that were more FP friendly.

[Runnin_Ute]

Diamine Classic Red or Sheaffer Skrip Red