Everything You Need To Know To Find The Best Correction Tapes

The Tombow Mono Air is the best correction tape. The JetPens team was immediately won over by how reliably it worked. With a light touch, you can put down correction tape exactly where you want it.

The color of its tape is also a winner: it's white with a neutral undertone that makes it blend the best with popular papers like that of the Hobonichi Techo.

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The Mono Air's tip is protected by a hinged 'cap' attached to the case that can be locked in place. It's available in three tape widths, all of which can be refilled, and a variety of body colors.

The characteristic that affected tape writability the most in our tests was texture. If a tape applied without wrinkles, writing over it was no trouble.

Some tapes might apply evenly but not fully adhere to a page. In this case, smooth them down with a finger before writing over them.

Pen tips also affect results; needle-point and very fine pen tips may tear into a tape. Fountain pens are at especially high risk of gumming up.

The neutral tone of Kokuyo Campus Correction Tape is designed to match the pages of Kokuyo Campus paper products. You can see how well the correction tape blends into the paper here.

That said, this tape's subtle color also blends into Maruman Mnemosyne and Moleskine notebooks.

Kokuyo Campus Correction Tape applied reliably, though it is a little more transparent than our other selections. Its built-in protective flap keeps it safe when traveling. It's available in 5.5 mm and 6.5 mm sizes that fit just right in 6 mm and 7 mm rule respectively.

The Midori MD Correction Tape is designed to coordinate with Midori MD paper products. After testing, we can say it not only goes well on MD paper but also blends into other popular cream-colored papers like those in Leuchtturm Notebooks and the Hobonichi Techo Weeks.

Our JetPens team noticed that fountain pen inks don't bead up and create thinner lines over MD Correction Tape. However'like with other correction tapes'it can be torn by sharp fountain pen nibs.

The Midori MD Correction Tape is not perfectly opaque, and the case's symmetrical design means you may need to peer closely at its tip before putting it to paper. However, its versatile tone and reliable application make it our favorite cream correction tape.

The Tombow Mono Pocket Correction Tape takes up as much space in your pencil case as a block eraser. In pink, it even looks like one!

We were won over when we discovered its cap posts on the back of its rectangular body, making it easier to grip and reducing the odds of the cap disappearing. This tape also applies reliably, much like our top pick.

The Tombow Mono Pocket has a few trade-offs for its compact size, though. First, it includes four meters of tape, which is less than half of the amount in a standard correction tape. Secondly, it's not refillable. If you make a lot of mistakes, you'll have to replace the applicator often, which can feel like a waste.

The Pentel Correction Fluid Pen is available in a wide variety of tip sizes. We like the 1.0 mm tip size for a nice balance of precision and efficiency in correction.

The pen's squeezable body means you can paint on as much correction fluid as you want; we didn't notice blobbing or excess fluid, and it doesn't drip if you squeeze while holding the tip away from the page. Its marks are easy to write over once they dry, too.

When I was in high-school, pretty much everyone wrote with fountain pens. As teenagers, we were obviously unable to keep our writing clear and mistake free and therefore had to correct regularly. Most of us used Waterman cartridges and had these amazing ink erasers that would make the ink disappear. We would then use the "other end" of the eraser marker (you can't rewrite something in ink, it won't show) for corrections.

I am rather certain that this will not work for all inks but there are some that are very "eraser friendly". Personally, I never liked this magic marker very much simply because the corrective end writes a marker line, not a fountain pen line. Furthermore, the colors aren't always spot on and the marker feathers strongly unless you wait for the "magic erasing ink" to dry out. Still, it seems more neat than crossing out words or, even worse, scribbling an awful dark spot of ink in the middle of the page.

Kind regards,

Dimitry

Edited January 23, by Dimitry V.

I still try and follow the single line-through way to cross out the incorrect word/s. It doesn't always work like that though and I might (often!) use more than one, or two, or three. If you see what I mean. Then there's the frantic scribbling over the offending error and a hastily scrawled expletive next to it or an apology. And that doesn't always happen just in my notebooks either.

On the matter of erasers; Rotring used to make special 'plastic' ones designed for removing their Rapidograph ink from drawing film, and to an extent, tracing paper. That was in the 70s so whether they are still available or would remove ordinary fountain pen ink from paper is another matter. I've probably still got one somewhere so I might try to find it and give it a go. One day.

So what is the best correction tape or fluid for fountain pens? I've tried standard bic tape but it doesn't seem to work all that well with the ink. Is there anything that does work or is the standard of crossing things out and carrying on the best? :embarrassed_smile:

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I like the look of a few scribbled out words here and there in my notebooks, but I don't like it when I'm writing letters. I usually try to camouflage it by incorporating the error into my writing, but if I have to scratch it out, I usually cross a line through, glue a piece of the same paper on top of the error, and write over.

"Liquid Paper" brand makes "Pen and Ink Correction Fluid" that might work for you.

I'd be curious to try this, just to see how the pen would write over the dried fluid.

We used "ink eradicator", which might have been some type of bleach. Smelled like bleach. Small bottle; cap had a glass poker that dipped into the liquid. We "painted" eradicator over the mistake...waited until it dried...then wrote over.

I doubt that the old 's eradicator is still being made, however.

I've heard a diluted bleach mixture can clean some stained plastic barrels, so this might work. It sounds like a home project, and you'd have to find some kind of stylus or poker as welch mentioned.

At school I had the little double-ended ink erasing marker that others described (eg Dimitry). The pro is it works on paper that's not bright-white, the con is that it only erases washable blue ink. Kind of the opposite of correction tape or fluid, which covers up and therefore works on every ink but only bright white paper So, given I prefer cream or ivory paper to white and that after using Royal Blue ink for years throughout primary and secondary school, I am now thoroughly sick of it, I'm stuck with crossing out

On the matter of erasers; Rotring used to make special 'plastic' ones designed for removing their Rapidograph ink from drawing film, and to an extent, tracing paper. That was in the 70s so whether they are still available or would remove ordinary fountain pen ink from paper is another matter. I've probably still got one somewhere so I might try to find it and give it a go. One day.

I'm not sure about those, but I know there's the blue side of those classic blue-and-red rubber erasers (the scrubbier side). It's supposed to remove ink, but really what it does is scrape off a layer of paper, so you can't do it many times over or anything. And as I recall, more than half the time it doesn't even remove all the ink either.

I don't know much about tracing paper and drawing film, but I believe they have a few characteristics that make them more resilient to that kind of scrubbing action than regular papers. So it may be that something that worked on those wouldn't work on paper anyway. Would be nice though :-/

We used "ink eradicator", which might have been some type of bleach. Smelled like bleach. Small bottle; cap had a glass poker that dipped into the liquid. We "painted" eradicator over the mistake...waited until it dried...then wrote over.

I doubt that the old 's eradicator is still being made, however.

oooh, that sounds pretty cool, smelly or not. I like the potential for this to work with all kinds of inks and on a range of papers - solutions like corrector tape and whiteout only work with bright-white paper, and I prefer cream

I've heard a diluted bleach mixture can clean some stained plastic barrels, so this might work. It sounds like a home project, and you'd have to find some kind of stylus or poker as welch mentioned.

I think you could use a bottle with an eyedropper, except without sucking up the fluid into the eyedropper tube. And I think I've seen little vials with a sort of little 'paddle' attached to the cap for storing and dispensing substances with the texture of a gel.

So what is the best correction tape or fluid for fountain pens? I've tried standard bic tape but it doesn't seem to work all that well with the ink. Is there anything that does work or is the standard of crossing things out and carrying on the best?

I found by accident that the Papermate Liquid Paper DryLine Grip correction tape works the best with fountain pens. I have a form of disgrafia that makes certain mistakes routine for me, so I need the correction tape, lest my page be covered with scratch outs. It's the only one I know of that lays down flat and hard enough to write on immediately after application. It also works with my hyperfine pens better than any other tape I've used.

I don't know if there are other versions of this one, but I know that the model that works with my fine nib Pilot Prera, and works well, is the green and white version that looks like a fish, number . Amazon sells them for something like $3.

Edited June 26, by Aquaria