Mark, a notary public and loan-signing educator, recommends notaries use blue pens for borrower signatures unless the lender specifies otherwise. Blue ink helps escrow officers quickly spot the original signature among black-ink copies, saving time and reducing confusion during document processing.
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Hi, I'm Mark, a notary public myself, an owner of a national signing service and a loan signing agent educator and I'm here with my tip of the week. My tip of the week is you always want to use a blue pen unless otherwise instructed. If your lender's instructions or your instructions from escrow do not clarify what color you should be using or having the borrower use is what I should have said. And you always want to use the blue pen. Why? It helps everyone understand the difference between original and a copy. Understanding the back end of this process will help you understand why blue is so important. There are so many copies that are made of the loan docs that you're signing and so helping the escrow officer or title officer know what original signature is by using blue. So you always want to try to use blue to help out the escrow title officer as they're making copies in the background of documents they don't need a search. I've literally been in escrow offices where they're staring at the piece of paper like is this an original signature? I swear. But you are an educated notary public loan signing agent so help the escrow officer title officer by having the borrower sign in blue. Again, this is not in lieu of lenders instructions. If something says sign in black, then sign in black. But if you get no specific instruction on what color the signing should happen in, then you should always use blue. I'm hoping this will helpful. Follow my page for any tips or tricks just like this.
