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Various Ink Refills

November 17, 2009 : 5:12 pm by Courtney

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I was working on this poster yesterday for our stores and I thought I’d share it here. Surprisingly, many people don’t realize that all of our markers are refillable. This means you can save a ton of money on markers in the long run. If you are using any of our marker types (Copic, Sketch, Ciao, Wide) then the below chart will show you how many refills you can get from one bottle of Various Ink. They are available in all 334 colors. If you are using Ciao, Copic or Wide (which don’t come in all colors) you can buy the empty markers and fill them with any color you like.

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Getting a refillable marker that is high quality and has as many color options is tough. If you are switching over to Copic’s, hopefully you already know about the refillability of our products. Don’t forget our Mulitliner SP Ink Pens are refillable too.  Make sure you recycle your old pens when they dry out. If you are looking for something interesting to do with them, I came across this article on diylife.com on “15 Uses for Old Pens“. Also check out the Pen Guy. He is trying to collect 1 million empty pens. He is putting together pen recycle stations and distributing them in the California area. I’d be interested to see more of these around. According to this article, Bic sold it’s 100 billionth ball point pen in 2005. If you laid that many pens end to end it would circle the earth 348 times. That’s nuts.

Recent Additions

September 25, 2009 : 10:35 am by Courtney

In case you haven’t clicked around the site for a while I’ll make it easy for you and just tell you what’s been added this week.

First off we are now distributing the new TracePad by Light Beam, Inc. It’s and ultra-thin, ultra bright light table that offers even light and no hot spots due to the fact that there are no bulbs. It’s 100% LED, which means it’s super efficient and has low energy consumption.

Next we’ve just received part 2 of the Product Design Rendering dvd series featuring a TON of great information. This dvd is over three hours long and covers techniques, materials and approaches to rendering several kinds of products and surface types.

Lastly our Papercrafting Set color charts are now up on the Sketch Sets page (scroll down). These sets are available in Copic and Ciao as well. Currently they are only up on the Sketch Sets page.

As always ask your local or online art supply retailer about getting any of these items.

Fresh Copic!

June 17, 2009 : 12:39 pm by admin

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Greetings Everyone!

After many weeks of website ups and downs we have finally put the pieces back together. We apologize for any inconvenience. The best part of the wait has been the addition of our new blog. We will use this spot to talk about new Copic developments, post interesting things found on the internets as well as some other goodies we have planned. But you’ll have to come back to find out what those are!

In the meantime please be patient as we work the bugs out and update a TON of info daily.

Thanks and come back soon.

Courtney – Sr. Graphic Designer/Art Director for Copic USA.