Keep these throwaway markers out of your community's landfill! Because we know we are making high quality tools, we use better materials such as metal barrels and higher quality plastics and nibs for our markers. One valve action marker under consistent usage will still outlast more than a dozen regular markers. The EnvironmentДЄnyone with any sense can see how wasteful these cheap capillary pens are in the long run - not only for your bank account but for the environment. All things considered, for the amount of usage you get out of our valve-controlled pens, they are a bargain. Because of this, you will notice the price per individual pen is higher than most throw-away capillary pens we sell. The most costly part of the markers we make are the paint and we fill our pens to capacity. and have dedicated our factory to producing them as efficiently and contentiously as possible. We make all of our valve action markers here in the U.S.A. The thing is, they don't last and they are not mean't for industrial use. For capillary pens, you are strictly confined to the use of dye based inks that hold much less paint PriceД®verybody and their mother has Sharpies. Many of these would be entirely inappropriate to use with a capillary mechanism. We supply industrial grade paints and inks for a great variety of specialty applications. Valve action always has a replaceable and reversible nib and can always be renewed and used down to the last drop. Nib ReplacementД¬apillary pens need to have the nib fastened to the soak up mechanism and cant be removed. On the other hand, valve-controlled pens allow for the entire area of the barrel to be dedicated to housing paint or ink. It is hard to measure how much ink is used in the production of capillary action markers because of the presence of the soak up mechanism. CapacityД«ecause capillary action markers use a soak up mechanism inside the pen, there is not much more space left to house ink. Capillary markers start to weaken after the first few uses. I have heard stories of someone using a marker for over 30 years until they had to scramble to find if the marker company still existed so they could purchase another one. This is because the marker contents are not only sealed from the air by the cap but by the closed valve that only opens when the nib is being inked.ДЄs far as how many uses you get out of the product, valve action markers keep going and going and going all the way down to the last drop. They still work just as well as when they were made. We have found xylene markers from the 1960's and before.

It is no question that valve action markers last much much much longer than capillary action markers. Mighty MarkerВ® PM-19: an example of a valve-controlled permanent paint marker Comparison Lifespan We always recommend to store markers on their side because of this and it is especially important to do it for capillary action markers. It is especially important to keep a capillary action marker capped when not in use since the ink is always exposed to air this way and is always evaporating. It drinks up the ink inside so that it can constantly supply the nib with ink. That is because much of the inside of the barrel is taken up by an absorbent sponge-like tube.

You just take the cap off and start writing. SharpieВ®, AveryВ® Marks a lot, even magic marker are known for their capillary action markers. If you have not heard of valve-action, this is likely the kind of ink marker you are used to. Before we can compare the differences between Valve Action markers and Capillary Action markers, we have to define what each are: Capillary action The Valve-Controlled Markers we make are quality tools and and not throw away items.

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