And so it comes to this, the overall bleak chapter of our time with the Sharpie Liquid Pencil. In case you’ll recall, the Liquid Pencil first increased nerd heartbeats all over the world every week and a half ago, when it was launched promising to write down like a pen, erase like a pencil, and finally dry like a Sharpie permanent marker. Actually, those were Sharpie’s exact words: ” Becomes permanent like a Sharpie marker after three days.” The area seemed yet packed with wonder; our ambition was limitless. We poured champagne and conducted our first hands-on with great success: indeed, the liquid graphite contained inside wrote like a pen and then erased completely. an easy pencil rising to the pages of Engadget — could any story be more American? But then — tragedy.
per week later, we returned to our Moleskine to test the permanency of our earlier scribbles and found that they still erased completely. Yes, given enough squinting and optimism, the argument might be made that the marks were slightly darker, but we’d been promised ” permanent like a Sharpie marker” — was the Sharpie Liquid Pencil nothing more than an elaborate ruse? Our hopes chastened, we clicked off another few moments of film documenting the basic transience of our creations, kept our best stiff upper lip, and dispatched a letter to Sharpie, imploring them to clarify. Today, we received a response, which we shall reprint in full after the break.
As you’ve demonstrated, the Sharpie Liquid Pencil’s liquid graphite will initially completely erase from the paper. However, through the years, the marks – while faint — will remain visible even after attempts at erasing. I guess this is able to be called either ” permanent” or ” not completely erasable” counting on your perspective.
Not to bore you with the technical details but I assumed it’d be helpful to share some insight on permanency. a set called the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) sets the technical standards for permanence in this area. The Sharpie Liquid Pencil was tested and beginning about 24 hours after writing, our testing showed that it met those standards. (Simply to cover off, lightfast, water- and chemical-resistance are other permanency qualifiers, and Sharpie Liquid Pencil meets all those too).
So does the Sharpie Liquid Pencil become permanent or ” more permanent” over the years? Yes, it does, but not ” permanent” within the same way as a Sharpie marker and we’ll update our blog posting to explain that. You’ll always be capable of erase it – a touch or an awful lot reckoning on how much time has passed, the kind of paper used, how hard you write and how hard you are trying to erase.
Again, thanks for giving us the opportunity to elucidate. Please let me know when you have additional questions.
Yes, we are being told that while the Sharpie Liquid Pencil meets the international standard for ” permanency,” it will still almost completely erase — and or course, a clarification containing many caveats will issue. In retrospect on the complete affair, it’s hard to look how it can have ended any differently: a fresh-faced newcomer grasping tightly at the Dream, only to crumble amid broken promises, appeals to international law, and the dull sense that we’ll all be erased. Good-bye, Sharpie Liquid Pencil — and good-bye, innocence.
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