What Happened To New Caran D'ache Inks?

[TSherbs]

Perhaps they just wanted to introduce a new slant on things.

:-)

[mm1624124]

For the anxious ones:

 

http://www.skripta-paris.com/lang-en/2672-caran-d-ache

 

and more

 

http://houseofpens.blogspot.com/2013/06/caran-dache-chromatics-ink.html

Edited June 25, 2013 by mm1624124

[fourseamer]

When are these companies going to learn that generic names for inks like "Serenity Blue" and "Ultra Violet" are a real put off. They're almost a disservice to the marketing of these inks. How many among you have bought an ink in part because it's name invokes something a little extra? Do you want "Delicate Green" or "Sherwood Green?" "Mysterious Blue" or "DC Supershow Blue?"

 

It's interesting that Waterman and Caran d'Ache have renamed some of these inks that are named for places, e.g. "Florida Blue," "Amazon," and "Grand Canyon." Is there some sort of trademark infringement involved with these locales?

[enchiridion]

 

Thanks for this presentation. I find the bottle volume better, I find the price per ml okay as said above but I still find the bottle design perverse. I mean; if they are by any means interested in offering some sort of practicability, then they should have invented a completely 90° vertically standing bottle with a very wedge-shaped bottom instead.

 

 

Fred

they just use the pencil shape that is famous from their ecridor line of mechanical pencils and biros. I would have gone further in the design and have fish scales or other art deco styling on the 6 sides and/or the cap. The cap would be the gadget to make it very practical during filling it suffices to have a two part cap (screw or bolt in the cap and a cavity with the ideal amount of ink to slurp). They can contact me if they want. The inkwell is often as much a usp than the ink contained in the well. I have kept every single glass bottle since 1984 (and older ones found in my grandfathers cellar and attic) and I'm not alone. Watch the pictures our friend here post.

Dux the German manufacturer of pencil sharpeners (famous bakelite ones) made one with kind of Pelikan bottles.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5344/9476572100_f742f31314.jpg

Dux slijper by Diskfac, on Flickr

[Opooh]

The form of the bottle isn't " oversize filling " friendly.