Originally Posted by BuckinghamshireBoy

This one appears decidedly odd to me; I have had a 'digitised' signature (albeit one made in blue ink) that I've been using for 20+ years, accepted by just about everyone, y inclus both Swiss and Belgian authorities.

I was damned sure that I'd used it previously for interactions with adventurepark.gov.uk as well in the past but ...

So, some more damn expenditure; wot's wrong with blue ink

Originally Posted by bobd22

I agree but is often stated on official forms that it must be black ink. I think it may be an hangover from photo copiers coming in as in the early days I seem to remember they didn't copy colours other than black well? Probably officialdom hasn't caught up with technology.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

In the government department I worked in we were told it was that blue ink was more likely to fade than black. For this reason we were supplied with black ink pens.
I was actually reprimanded once for not using the official pens.

Originally Posted by bobd22

Rules are rules I guess they don't necessarily make sense or keep up with technology. I seem to remember in the military sing told that senior officers over a certain rank wrote in green ink, junior officers in blue ink other ranks black ink?

Originally Posted by BuckinghamshireBoy

My take on this would be that now you've been accepted as an eligible legitimate voter by your ex-local authority, phase 1 is thumbs-up.

Now for moving to phase 2 we are invited to return to that wondrous adventure park of gov.uk vis-a-vis "d'ya want postal or proxy?" - the "punk" addition is implicit here.

Originally Posted by BuckinghamshireBoy

I've just splashed out by ordering online some black ink (shudder) refills for both my fountain and roller pens.