How To Change Your Highlighter Pen Color
You can fix the highlighter pen or marker with the help of water, rubbing alcohol, or nail polish remover. In fact, you can also change the ink color if you want with the help of these amazing methods.
How to Change Your Highlighter Pen Color?
Changing highlighter pen color is really easy, and it won’t take too much time. You have to be careful with the ink spilling on your clothes or desk at work. You can do it only by refilling the ink sponge with another color.
But the process is easy than refilling Markers! For this you need to follow some steps mentioned below
Step 1: First of all, take some plain water in a small glass-like before. You shouldn’t take warm water here as you will put your desired color ink into the water.
Step 2: Now take the bottle of the color you want to mix with the present highlighter color. But I will suggest you take the inkjet printer ink of blue color. Mixing blue color with the yellow neon one will give a green color.
Step 3: Using a syringe or drop, pull out some ink from the bottle and put only a few drops into the glass with water. Now mix it properly.
Step 4: Now, remove the cap from your highlighter marker and carefully open up the marker as before so there will not be any accidents. Then pull out the ink sponge and pour it inside the new color mixture. After putting it into the ink, you’ll see that it absorbs the ink immediately.
Step 5: In the last step, when you’ll see that the ink pad is thoroughly soaked with blue ink, remove it out. Using a paper towel, remove excess water and color. Then set up the highlighter pen as before. Now, cap on the marker and let it sit for some time.
After that, test to write on a paper, and you’ll see that blueish ink is getting out from the highlighter marker.
Now, enjoy highlighting again!
A Word of Caution
The chemical reaction of the vinegar solution with the ink on the highlighter marker can also produce a little bit of heat and some fumes.
So, it might be better to do this in a well-ventilated area for the best results. However, if you pick acetone, it is also recommended to use it in the well-ventilated area as it produces fumes also.
And acetone can be harmful to the main plastic body. So, if you choose acetone, make sure to use it on the highlighter marker tip only. You can also use kerosene or mineral spirits alternative to acetone.
Final Thoughts
Your highlighter marker can keep on working for years with this method. Save money from buying a new one every time your highlighter stopped working!
These are just some tips that I found useful whenever my old markers started running low on their ink supply. It is always better to know how to do something rather than throwing away good stuff because we couldn’t find a solution to revive it.
Now you can enjoy your newly revived highlighter!
