Comments on: Pentel Multi8

By: penciladmin

penciladmin — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:00:59 +0000

Tyler, something written with that lead won’t appear in a black and white photocopy. I haven’t tested it.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:16:07 +0000

What do they mean by non-copy?

By: penciladmin

penciladmin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:50:58 +0000

Hi scruss, there are a number of online retailers who sell this pencil (or the version shown in Gunther’s photo), plus a few brick and mortar places.

kiwi-d, I understand the dilemma.

By: kiwi-d

kiwi-d — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:21:45 +0000

I have long resisted the lure of this offering from Pentel…I feel resolve weakening.

By: scruss

scruss — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:34:32 +0000

so, where can you get them?

By: penciladmin

penciladmin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:37:49 +0000

There is nothing “luxurious” about the pencil, but maybe the non-copy leads cause it to be classified as a “professional” variety.

A couple of additional points – according to the manual, “PPC” stands for “Plain Paper Copier”, and the sibling PH803 has three ballpoint pens (black, red, blue), pink and yellow fluorescent leads, a “non-repro” lead, a red lead, and a HB graphite lead – an office supply cabinet in a pencil!

By: Gunther

Gunther — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:31:43 +0000

It seems that the Multi 8 (PH158) is/was produced in at least two different versions – the one available in Germany looks even cheaper. Could it be possible that you have some kind of "luxury" version?