Pen Addict reader Jonathan sent this to me over the weekend:
I saw your blogs after playing around with blue and black Frixion pens. A few observations:
1. Ink color is indeed not great...but these are still so much nicer than those erasable ink pens from when I was in high school...which may have been when you were there, but never mind.
2. I held a match up to some text written with Frixion, but not close enough to burn the paper. The ink actually doesn't disappear; it turns white. I confirmed this on a dark piece of paper.
3. I then took some of the text that I erased with the heat of the match and chilled it thoroughly by holding it firmly against a bag of frozen asparagus. It turned gray again--which is about all the "black" ink ever was.
These are completely useless things to know, but I thought you might find them mildly amusing.
And in a later mail......
I should now add that for the heat it is simpler to hold the paper with the Frixion ink next to a standard light bulb (it doesn't have to touch) to erase it. Also, to make it reappear, if one is patient, you can just put the paper in the freezer--though it can take hours to get the ink to come back.
One thing you got wrong Jonathan - these are not completely useless things to know, these are ESSENTIAL things to know for all of us Pen Addicts out there! Thanks again for sharing.
Knowing how to get the ink back is indeed important to know. I remember reading on a comment or review somewhere that someone hated the Frixions because they wrote all of their school notes with one then left their notebook in a hot car. Needless to say they went to study and all their notes had disappeared..... too bad we didn't have excuses like that when we were in school.
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