My new fountain pen ink bled through three pages of my journal

I got a bottle of 'permanent black' ink for my birthday last month. I tested it on a scrap piece of the same 100gsm dot grid paper I always use. It was fine. But when I used it in my actual daily log, it bled straight through the page I wrote on, the next page, and left a ghost on the third. I think the pressure of my normal writing was different than my test scribble. Now I have two ruined spreads. Has anyone found a good way to salvage pages after a bad ink bleed, or should I just glue them together?

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patriciacarr17h ago

This happens with so many things, where the test run works perfectly but the real deal falls apart. It's like the universe has a rule against practice matching performance. Gluing the pages is probably the most peaceful option.

charles67823h ago

Man, I'd just glue them together and move on. Those pages are part of the journal's story now, a little mess and all. Trying to fix it perfectly will just make you crazy.