{"id":4763,"date":"2011-02-19T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:53:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:53:30","slug":"why-scantron-forms-traditionally-are-printed-in-blue-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/why-scantron-forms-traditionally-are-printed-in-blue-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Scantron Forms Traditionally Are Printed in Blue Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/scantron-forms-blue-ink.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4764\" title=\"scantron-forms-blue-ink\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/scantron-forms-blue-ink.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/scantron-forms-blue-ink.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/scantron-forms-blue-ink-340x180.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why You Used to Have to Use Number 2 Pencils With Scantron Forms\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/why-you-used-to-have-to-use-2-pencils-with-scantron-forms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why You Used to Have to Use #2 Pencils With Scantron Forms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Classically, scantron forms used blue ink for the lines and outlines to the circles because the original scantron systems couldn\u2019t pick up the light in the blue spectrum.\u00a0 Modern systems are simply designed to ignore whatever color the scantron form was printed in.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why You Used to Have to Use #2 Pencils With Scantron Forms Text Version Classically, scantron forms used blue ink for the lines and outlines to the circles because the original scantron systems couldn\u2019t pick up the light in the blue spectrum.\u00a0 Modern systems are simply designed to ignore whatever color the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[921],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-scantron-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}