Originally Posted by
mizgeorge
That's very strange.
I use Earl Grey all the time - in fact I keep a pen permanently inked with it because I like the colour so much. I've just picked it up, having not touched it for probably a fortnight, and it's writing perfectly on the three papers I tried - and it's also a non-gold nib (a vintage Geha-Boy with a palliag semiflex). I'd say that like many Diamines, it's slightly on the wet side, feathers a little bit on poor paper and has a fairly slow dry time, but I've never come across anything like that.
If it's doing the same thing in two pens, I'd say perhaps you have a duff bottle. Was there any sitb?
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