Wrong colour ink!

Nearlyuseless

Hi, I hope someone can help as the DVLA are impossible to get on the phone when you just want to ask a question.
My husband has just sold his car and has just realized that the buyer has filled in his details on the Registration certificate in blue ink instead of black.
Does anyone know if it will still be ok to send it to the DVLA or will he have to do something else now.
Please help and thank you in advance.

bod1467

Can you not carefully trace over it in black ink? They won't likely know it wasn't the other guy that did it - he realised his error and rewrote in black ink, didn't he?

Nearlyuseless

Thanks for answering so quickly bod1467, we're a bit scared of doing that in case we make it worse, but I suppose it's either that or to just to send it off to see what happens then.

Nearlyuseless

Went over it in black and it doesn't look too bad, we'll have to wait and see.
Thanks again for good advice.:)

AdrianC

I really, really, really wouldn't worry about it.

Joe_Horner

The whole black ink thing is just a hang-over from when photocopiers and scanners had trouble with other colours. Red was particularly bad on a lot of the old black & white kit - a red signature could disappear completely on a copy.

It's easier to tell people to use one colour that does work than tell them not to use the ones that don't. Nowadays they're all fine in reality

londonTiger

it would be fine to send it in blue, if there are any problems it wouldf just mean that it needs to be manually looked at by a person rather than operated by machine.

I believe the forms get OCR'd into the computer system and black has the highest contrast off the paper so easier to read by the computer. But blue isn't so bad.

Nilrem

Joe_Horner wrote: »

The whole black ink thing is just a hang-over from when photocopiers and scanners had trouble with other colours. Red was particularly bad on a lot of the old black & white kit - a red signature could disappear completely on a copy.

It's easier to tell people to use one colour that does work than tell them not to use the ones that don't. Nowadays they're all fine in reality

I think that's pretty much it, unless it's a really light blue it should be fine

Black I think is also asked for because it's not used for a background on any of the government forms (unlike say green, and I think red/pink or blue on some), so it's probably a bit that's been put in as standard on all sorts of forms in the past and lingers on

Nearlyuseless

Thanks very much everyone, I do wish I had just left it now but couldn't make up my mind as usual.
Hopefully it's still readable, I'm off to post it in a minute.
Thanks again.:)