about tipp-ex

[ppenloverr]

is there any ink where you can write over tipp-ex... it is so annoying cos it seems impossible to write down anything on tipp-ex even when you leave it dry for a long time.. it is just like writing over plastic it doesn't take the ink at all...

[Tweel]

Assuming Tipp-Ex is like Wite-Out or Liquid Paper here in the States, I think the closest thing to fountain pen ink that will write on it is india ink, and that dries very slowly.

 

I wish there were a Noodler's made for it, or a paper-pulp based correction fluid.

 

-- Brian

 

[thibaulthalpern]

Assuming Tipp-Ex is like Wite-Out or Liquid Paper here in the States, I think the closest thing to fountain pen ink that will write on it is india ink, and that dries very slowly.

 

I wish there were a Noodler's made for it, or a paper-pulp based correction fluid.

 

-- Brian

 

Tipp-Ex is indeed what in America you call "White-out". Tipp-Ex is a German brand popular in UK and its former colonies.

[lapis]

Well, I see no problem with MB's blue-black. But that's of course a problem you may equate to your pen's not trusting that ink.

After my MB B-B dries on my Tipp-Ex after at most 1 minute, it doesn't smear or smudge any more than the ink on paper itself. I must note that "my" Tipp-ex is the original solution containing trichloroethane. Heptane or your "white gas" (no joke) is also a good solvent here. The company Tipp-Ex -- now belonging to BIC of course -- also makes a water-soluble variety (AFAIK) just for the sake of some folks wanting to not lead an unhealthy life and/or wrong orientation towards ecology etc.

Sooo... all FP inks being more water-soluble than organic solvent-soluble, any ink written onto this water-soluble variety of Tipp-Ex might re-dissove that Tipp-Ex and at the same time gum up your nib. Try that out, I don't have it, and my "original version" is for me okay.

 

This may not help either: but it all depends on the surface written on and not on the Tipp-Ex solvent or the ink. Any FP ink won't write on a glass surface either.

 

Whew

[Ernst Bitterman]

I've found that if you don't get too lavish with the correction fluid and give it a couple of minutes drying time before writing on it (and then also after), there's reasonable if thin-lined success. Even better are the tape-style items which deposit a thin white film on the paper (like the old electric typewriter correction tape).

[Titivillus]

is there any ink where you can write over tipp-ex... it is so annoying cos it seems impossible to write down anything on tipp-ex even when you leave it dry for a long time.. it is just like writing over plastic it doesn't take the ink at all...

 

 

I've found pencils as well as thick gel pens will write on the stuff.

 

K

[Tweel]

I've found that if you don't get too lavish with the correction fluid and give it a couple of minutes drying time before writing on it (and then also after), there's reasonable if thin-lined success.

I hadn't even tried lately, so I tried again (with Noodler's black, which I don't think I had before) -- I guess you're right. After drying overnight, a wet finger didn't even smear it very much (excepting the heavier pool at the end of the line).

 

I usually keep white-out more dilute than the factory standard, and that may have helped, too.

 

-- Brian

[ppenloverr]

thanks for your scientific explanation.

Edited October 7, 2008 by ppenloverr

[ppenloverr]

haven't thought about the old style of tipp-ex. maybe that could work... i will be patient and allow more drying time... thanks..

[richardandtracy]

The company I work for went for 'Non Solvent' Tipp-Ex. The stuff was water based.

 

Guess how well that hid washable inks... That's right, after 30 seconds you could see the writing underneath as if it had been done with a broad nib.

Then, as you wrote over the top with the new word, the entire stuff turned the colour of the ink and the writing was unreadable.

 

Don't use it!

 

Regards

 

Richard.

 

[Goodwhiskers]

The FP inks that have done well for me on dried-up correction fluid are

 

Pilot-Namiki Blue, Blue-Black, and Black,

and

Levenger Cocoa (but not Raven Black).

 

Correction tape (the newfangled hand-held roller type) absorbs FP ink a little bit better than the fluid does. Some inks smear on correction tape after drying, but they stay legible.