Is there a specific way you break in the red ink pads?
I now have two black StazOn ink pads. They both were great immediately, and dry quickly. No giant mess of ink.

I bought a "Blazing Red" inkpad and refill. No matter what methods I try, such as trying to dry up the inkpad, or refilling it, or adding isopropanol, it becomes a giant blob of ink on the banknote, and takes hours to dry. Other times little ink is applied and the stamp is unreadable. No idea what to do with this.