Has anyone else had this problem? I have about 5 Hi-Tec-C pens (.4 and .5mm) and, from time to time, the tips become like dried out - as though I am running out of ink - but when i put the tip in a napkin and rotate it to clean it, they start working again... this is so annoying when im writing in my journal and the ink color changes/fades since the hi-tec-c sort of dries up...

not sure if i described it right but as i am writing, the color starts to fade until there is no ink coming out - appearing as though i ran out of ink. but when i put the tip in a napkin and rotate it, the pens starts writing normally again.....

any idea what this is and what causes it? i have not had this issue with any other pens.... i have noticed this on both my single hi-tec-c pens as well as my hi-tec-c coleto. i think it only happens with the .4, .5 and .7mm tips - i havent had this problem with my .3mm tip...

anyway, just wanted to put this up.

I've had to do it for my Sakura Glaze. It's just from gunk building up on the tip and tiny fibers. I've had fountain pens do it a little too and nave to rinse the nibs off/etc.

oops, i didnt realized someone replied to this post! thanks jonel.

i thought maybe i had bad pens or something b/c i dont have this problem with other pens i have...

I usually find that it's the paper/way you write, and not the pen at all.

All gel pens by the very nature of the ink have occasional ink stoppages. It's worse with the finer tipped pens because the ink is the same (usually) from pen to pen within the same family but as the tips get narrower the flow problem is compounded. Add to this, as JonelB wrote, the clogging of the tip from fibers and paper dust and you get pens that want to stop writing. I've had bits do it, Hi-Tec-C's do it, G-2's do and a few others. Everyone blames it on the poor Hi-Tec-C's when it can, and does, happen to all gel pens.

There was actually a thread about this (unless it got deleted?)

Lemme find it....if it even exists anymore....

=)


EDIT:

http://www.jetpens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=499


hERE It is!

OneLoneGunman's flick trick worked ^_^