Have you checked out the new line of Pilot FriXion pens and highlighters?
They are a new line of erasable pens, but they’re so much more than that. These pens erase with the friction of the eraser on the pen OR with heat! My co-worker was told a story of a girl who had written a 20 page essay with one of the Pilot FriXion pens, and she left it on the dashboard of her car. You can see where this is going – the car heated up in the sun, and the ink disappeared! Well, thankfully, another neat aspect to this ink is that it comes back when exposed to cold temperatures. She was able to put it in the freezer for awhile and prove to her teacher that she had completed her assignment.
I was a little skeptical of this, so I decided to put the pens to the test, to prove to myself and all of you, that it actually works like this!
In the image below, you will see that I wrote the top section with the Pilot FriXion Roller Ball Point Black Pen, the middle section with the Pilot FriXion Erasable Ballpoint Blue Gel Pen, and the bottom section I wrote with a regular pen and highlighted it with the Pilot FriXion Lite Erasable Yellow Highlighter.
In this video, I used my blow dryer to heat up the ink and see how it disappeared. To my surprise, it worked very easily!
This picture shows the page after I have finished heating up the ink. As you can see, all but just a tiny bit of the blue ink and just a couple spots of the highlighter disappeared. Using the eraser on the pen removed this ink, I just don’t have a picture of it.
This image shows the ink after I had it in the freezer to cool it down. As you can see, the ink came back clearly enough to read. However, the blue ink is darker than the black ink. So keep that in mind if you’re writing a long paper with these pens – maybe use the blue pen just to be safe! Even the highlighter ink came back perfectly!
I am very impressed with these pens. Not only did they hold up to the disappearing and reappearing standard, but they write very smoothly and are comfortable in my hand. The highlighter works great also! Be sure to check out our selection – if you can’t decide on just one, don’t worry, get the assorted pack of 8 colors!
