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Erasing pencil marks from your documents
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First let's talk about erasing. So you have something with pencil marks that you want to erase: always work with a vinyl eraser. Don't work with an eraser off the bottom of a pencil, not with a gum eraser. Make sure it's a white vinyl eraser. The other kind of erasers will leave a residue on your material. When you're working with the eraser, always make sure you have a nice soft brush, a clean brush that's used to wipe the crumbs off, versus using your hand. You want to gently use the brush to brush that off.

Now I can start by just gently, very gently, don't force it, rubbing in a circular motion. And it should lift off. Go over it once, lifting off a little bit at a time. Take the brush and just brush the crumbs away.

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