Cut re-signs by 2 this month just by switching to blue ink at a couple after-dinner kitchen-table signings — Pilot G2 0.7s. I’m seeing more blue-ink requests lately, and last Tuesday around 8:15 p.m. the originals popped against the copies, which spared a “did we sign that?” callback. Blue gives me faster visual checks and fewer sticky flags; I gave up the super-crisp scanner results I usually get with black, and my old bulk pack of 0.5 gels is sulking, but the tiny win’s real on thick, 100-page sets. Compare-contrast, plain terms: blue ink versus black ink.
With blue, I gained speed and clarity at the table; with black, I get cleaner PDFs and better text recognition on those 2–3 forms with tiny boxes. This sits in Notary Trivia. Trivia-wise, some offices still archive with older gear, and black can read better there, so black still wins when an intake sheet says “black only” or you’re f
I had the same tradeoff — switching my ScanSnap to 300 dpi color with Text Enhancement makes blue signatures scan crisp again. If you like G2s, the 1.0 mm blue-black or the Uni-ball 207 BLX reads blue at the table but scans almost black.
Try 300 dpi color with Text Enhancement on the ScanSnap and set compression to Better - my blue signatures pop without the fuzzy edges. I use blue for borrower sigs but switch to black on recordables unless the instructions say blue, since a couple counties here have bounced blue deeds.
Switching from my G2 0.7 to a Uni‑ball 207 blue‑black cut the smears on cheap letter and still makes the originals pop; the pigment ink also resists wash‑outs and scans cleaner at 300 dpi color. You tried blue‑black yet, @notebook_traveler?