What is the difference between water pens, water-based pens and water-soluble pens and oil-based pens?
Water pen: This is the popular name of the public. Some people call the signature pen water pen, some people call the oil-based pen water pen, and some people call the marker pen water pen. Anyway, people who have ink are used to call it water pen, so this kind of name is nothing. Professional reference.
Let's start with the category of markers/markers to summarize.
Water-based pen: The main ingredients are water and water-resistant pigments. It will not dissolve or smudge when exposed to water. Generally, art drawing and drawing lines are used for many purposes. It is characterized by no smudging on paper and no odor. It represents products such as cherry blossom water-based needles. Pen, Mitsubishi's water-based marker pen. Can be erased with organic solvents;
Water-soluble pen: The main components are water, dyes and resins. Generally used for industrial marking, the ink is hydrophilic and will dissolve in the presence of water. In general industrial processes, the marking requirements can be easily erased, so water-soluble pen is selected. Marker pen, so it is also called wet erase pen. (Whiteboard pen is generally called dry erase pen);
Oil-based pens: mainly organic solvent formulations, such as alcohols (such as ethanol), ketones (such as acetone), benzenes (such as xylene. These pens are generally mainly used for industrial marking, have a large odor, different solvents The writing firmness, smell and quick-drying effect of the formula are different. The characteristics are that the ink is waterproof, firm and not easy to fade, and the color is bright. But the writing paper will be smudged.
