- Pentel
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Pentel Co., Ltd. 
Type Private Industry Stationery Founded 1946 [1] Headquarters Tokyo, Japan Area served Worldwide [2] Key people Yukio Horie, President (?-2010) [3] Products Writing instruments Website www.pentel.co.jp Pentel Co., Ltd. (ぺんてる株式会社) is a privately held Japanese company that produces stationery products. Pentel is also the inventor of non-permanent marker technology. Most Pentel products are manufactured in Japan, Taiwan and France. Yukio Horie, who was the President of the company until his death in 2010, had invented the fibre or felt-tipped pen in the 1960s. [4]
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Products
Pentel produces a wide range of products, mainly writing instruments such as pens and markers. [5]
Category Products Writing instruments Rollerball pens, gel pens, ballpoint pens,
mechanical pencils, fountain pens,
Marker pens, highlighters, brush pens,
refills for all the writing instrumentsAccessories Erasers, liquid adhesives, correction fluids,
correction tapes, gluesArtistic Oil pastels, crayons, watercolors Artists
Pentel has recently launched the "Pentel Pocket Brush" [6] [7], a "brush pen" (actually a marker pen with a brush-shaped flexible tip) but refillable, using replaceable ink cartridges like fountain pens do.
Brush pens (designed and recommended for calligraphy) have also gained popularity among comic book artists, who choose them to ink their works instead of dip pens or traditional brushes. One of those artists using Pentel is Neal Adams [8] [9].
Curiosities
Former Secret Intelligence Service officer Richard Tomlinson alleges that Pentel Rolling Writer rollerball pens were extensively used by agents to produce secret writing (invisible messages) while on missions.[10]
Gallery
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Pentel headquarters in Tokyo
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Pentel R.S.V.P. pens
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Pentel erasers
References
- ^ Pentel: Who we are
- ^ Pentel international locations
- ^ Pentel Japanese site corporate information
- ^ History of pen and writing instruments About Inventors site. Retrieved March 11, 2007.
- ^ Pentel catalog as of 2011
- ^ Pentel Pocket Brush features
- ^ Pentel brush in Cult Pens website
- ^ Larry Hama interview in Comic Book Resources June 3, 2009
- ^ Aaron Sowd interview in Rough House Ink
- ^ Tomlinson, Richard: The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security, pg 44. Mainstream Publishing 2001 ISBN 1-903813-01-8
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