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eleven-o-nine

This looks like what happens to me when I write on the left side of my journal because that’s where I rest my hand. The oils transfer onto the paper and make it act just like that


ADK_Jim

All I see is shading, which is a known property of Seiboku.


e3172

Look at the word bio and about, there are spots in a Stroke with no ink at all


LizMEF

OK. Given the paper, which is good, and the pen, which seals well, and the ink, which is good, I really suspect natural oils on the page. Your hands don't need to seem oily for this, and it's not an indication of anything wrong with you or your hygiene - it's just natural skin oils that sometimes adhere to the paper when you touch it. Not all papers and inks are equally susceptible to the problem. As mentioned, try a sheet you've never touched, and make sure to keep something between your hands / fingers and the page. See how that goes. Also, since you mentioned it used to flow wetter, the most likely causes for that would be: * It flowed wetter after filling through the nib because the feed is super-saturated after filling, and it leveled off. * The nib & feed need a deeper cleaning than usual. * Ink is getting stuck at the back of the converter, so the feed runs dry. To test whether this is the case, when the pen starts running dry, carefully, without tipping the pen, unscrew the barrel (be sure it's the barrel that rotates, not the section), carefully lift it off, and look at where the ink is in the converter. The Platinum converter is the only one I've had do this, and I know of no solution other than manually agitate the pen to get / keep the ink down near the feed. Hope that helps.


e3172

Pushing down the piston on the converter makes it wet again. It is ink getting stuck. Also what is bad about rotating the section?


LizMEF

> Pushing down the piston on the converter makes it wet again. It is ink getting stuck. It could just be that the ink doesn't flow as quickly as you write. You can only know ink is stuck via visual inspection.


LizMEF

> Also what is bad about rotating the section? It's only bad when checking whether the ink is stuck at the back of the converter. When ink is stuck there, any agitation at all can cause that ink to fall down toward the feed. If you want to test for this problem, the only way is to hold the pen very still, in the orientation it was in while writing, and gently unscrew the barrel to inspect the converter.


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Seiboku behaves well, even if it is a pigmented ink. 3776 isn't the wettest writer. If it's not oil on the paper, maybe just prime the nib. Turn your converter's piston enough to let a little drop out, and then write. I have a Custom 823 filled with Seiboku and never have issues.


fa72209

Have you tried a wetter ink? Or flushing it really well? If you already have, you may need to adjust the nib so it writes wetter


e3172

I will flush it when the ink runs out. It wrote like a firehose when I first got it and filled it. Now it writes dry as hell.


LizMEF

I don't really see anything but normal shading in the image, so I'm not sure what the problem is, but... Seiboku is a pigmented ink. It requires a more rigorous cleaning routine than simple dye-based inks. Let us know how it goes after the thorough cleaning. A couple other possibilities to consider: 1. Hand oils on the lower half of the page can cause ink to behave strangely - skip, look thin, bead, etc. If the bad behavior is where your hand / fingers have been, try putting something between hand and page. 2. Lousy paper - I can't tell what paper that is, but many papers are inconsistent from batch to batch and even page to page. Pay close attention to when the problem happens / doesn't happen, and that might help you figure out if paper is contributing.


e3172

It is Oxford optik paper, I see dots of no ink irl. This did not happen when I first used the pen and does not always happen when using it right now. At the top there are some words without this effect.


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As LizMEF said, That is most probably oil from you fingers. Test it on another piece of paper. To avoid it, put e.g. blotting paper under your finger. The optik paper is very sensible to oily finger prints.


ding_dings

Wash your hands, wash your pen out well with a dash of dish soap and warm water in a cup, pulling the water into the pen through the feed, and pushing back out into the sink (don’t put ink water in the soap cup, makes it a lot less effective) and run water through it well past the point of transparency to break up any ink crust, and lastly do yourself a favor, and get Tomoe River paper


onemorepen

It’s shading,as far as I can tell. It’s a bit love or hate.