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Edding Fine Liner - Troubleshooting

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  • 27-12-2019 2:29pm
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    New Home
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    Has anyone else found that the Edding Fineliners (the metallic ones in particular, those with a 0.8 nib) tend to leak a lot, and that their ink flows out in big blobs?

    If so, has anyone found a way to stop it from happening?
    (These are the marker pens I'm on about: https://www.edding.com/products/edding-780-gloss-paint-marker/)


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    makeandcreate
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    Shake them really well - then shake some more - prime by pressing the nib onto scrap several times until ink blobs out. Wipe excess on scrap paper and work away.
    Be careful not to press down to heavily on the nib whilst writing - you have to be quite smooth, or the excess pressure will make it blob.
    In between use store horizontal or upside down. Always prime and wipe away excess - you waste ink but no blobbing. I use the white ones a lot.
    Regularly stop and reprime nib, wipe and go again.


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    So really, this means that a good part of the ink gets wasted anyway, doesn't it?


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    makeandcreate
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    New Home wrote: »
    So really, this means that a good part of the ink gets wasted anyway, doesn't it?

    Some does get wasted but that is infinitely better than my pained attempts with a fine line brush, when I need to pencil in first, paint, wipe off, curse, try again, ad infinitum. And 4 to 48 hours later am sort of happy with the work.
    Like everything, you get better with practise.
    It also depends on the surface you are working on, curved glass is a particular dislike of mine - what are you trying to do? Maybe there's another pen/paint option that would be more suitable.


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    Just good old Christmas cards... it was card, 160g/sqm.


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