Zebra Uses Science to Stop Highlighters Blurring Ink

It's the time of year when the younger generations head back to school and there'southward a marketing push button to get us to purchase all the gadgets and equipment they'll demand to study. Chances are, most of the stuff they had terminal year still works perfectly well, but Japanese writing instruments visitor Zebra has a new highlighter to sell you that manages to solve an annoying trouble.

Zebra Just Fit Mojini Line Highlighter Pens

Using a highlighter pen on written notes can exist a large assistance to learning, but it tin can too result in ruined notes. That's because if the ink used to make the notes is water-based, running a highlighter pen over them results in blurred text. As XTech reports, Zebra claims to have solved this problem cheers to scientific discipline with its new But Fit Mojini Line.

What Zebra realized is that the ink used in a number of ballpoint pens is water based and negatively charged, which ways information technology'due south not permanently bound to the paper it is written on. The negative charge is actually a positive for the ink as it allows for stable dispersion of the coloring agent in the ink. Nonetheless, if you introduce some other ink on the paper, such as from a highlighter, you become movement resulting in blurred text.

Zebra figured out that past adding a "positively-charged new component" to the company'south highlighter ink, the ballpoint pen ink is solidified because the ions in the highlighter ink bind to the pen ink and solidify it on the paper. The end result is highlighted text with zippo blurring regardless of what ink has been used.

If it works in all cases as suggested, then Zebra is apace going to have one of the most pop ranges of highlighter on the market place. It also helps that the Just Fit Mojini Line highlighters are priced at below a dollar each, at least in Japan. Hopefully they'll head west soon. Don't look Zebra to be the only visitor offering a "no blur" guarantee for long, though. I suspect this volition be a solution copied quickly.