non-repro blue

[RavenousMedia]

Some what hypothetical situation - let's say I have a drawing that I ereased and re-ereased the hell out of, but finished just the same. Now I want to ink it but the paper is too worn out. Here's what I think my options might be:
A.) use a lightbox to trace it on a new paper
B.) ink it anyway and hope for the best
C.) scan it, print it in non-repro blue and ink directly on that

I've gone the A and B route in the past and am not often happy with the results, so I'm willing to try C or any other possibly routes I'm unaware of. So how does non-repro blue work? Will this magic blue color not reproduce on anything, including a desktop scanner? And how do I get this color - is there a pantone, will not any blue do? Will a regular desktop printer make this color? Anyone who has some experience with this want to point me in the right direction?

Thanks
- Rob

[Unitus]

if the final piece is going to be lineart (just black and white, no halftones) or you're going to scan your inked piece and color it on the computer, i'd say C: scan it, print it out with ANY light color (even a 10-15% black, if your printer will hold it, the lighter the better) ink it, then scan it back in and adjust the levels to remove the lighter color/shades.

if however, the final piece isn't digital, well, then i'd print out your rough with a light shade of cyan (10%) and work on top of that.

but you'll find what's best for you just by experiementing.

[robschwager]

we do blue line crap all day long at work.

Scan in pencils, go to mode, duotone, click the black square, adjust C to 15-20%, insert board into printer, print, ink.

[RavenousMedia]

thanks guys. So a small % of cyan is the magic non-repro color. I'll give it a shot.

[maynard]

Traditional Non-Photo blue is 20% process Cyan if I'm not mistaken. But Unitus is right, any really light color will do if you're going to re-scan the image.