codeink@robot:~$ ./draw --status
> STATUS: DRAWING▌
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codeink@robot:~$ ./draw --status
> STATUS: DRAWING▌
Drawing your page…
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Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile finish no digital printer can replicate.
Specifications
> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]
> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll (Museum-Grade)
> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]
> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting
> PRODUCTION: Open · drawn after you order
> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada
What the robot does, what a person does
The robot
A person
Open production · Made after your order
A technical plan of the Canadair CL-415, drawn in pen, line by line, on 250 g/m² paper, 11 × 17 in. A physical nib presses into the paper and lays down real ink, in Québec — a few hundred kilometres from the forests this aircraft protects. On the back: a serial number and a date, drawn in UV ink in the same pass as the artwork.
The CL-415 plan exists as a file, everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a copy that can say who drew it, where, on what day, and under which number.
The Canadair CL-415 is one of the very few aircraft in the world designed from the outset to fight forest fires. Amphibious, it scoops 6,140 litres of water while skimming a lake, drops, and goes back for more. Born at Canadair in Montréal and later produced by Bombardier, it first flew in December 1993. Ninety-five were completed before the production line closed in 2015. Its silhouette is the one people look for in the sky when the forest is burning.
At a Glance
We'll hand your exact text to the operator before plotting — 40 characters max.
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Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.
Included
Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.
“I picked this aircraft because it's from here and because it works. It wasn't designed to be beautiful: every line answers a constraint — scoop fast, fly low, land on water. It's the kind of drawing where I have almost nothing to invent, only to decide what stays.”
Open production, no duplicates
This piece isn't a limited edition. It also has no two identical copies.
The pen wears down as it draws. Ink runs denser at the start. One line closes a hair away from the last. Nothing gets corrected and nothing gets hidden: it's the simplest proof the object was made rather than duplicated.
PERFECTLY imperfect.
A real process, not a printer
Each piece is physically plotted, pen on paper, in Québec City — watch the machine work.
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Real defects — shipping damage, wrong colour, missing lines — are replaced free of charge.
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Numbered and signed
A unique serial number and the date are plotted on the back in UV ink — invisible to the naked eye, laid down in the same pass as the drawing.
Everything you need to know
CodeInk art is not affiliated with, associated with, authorized by, or sponsored by Bombardier, De Havilland Canada or their rights holders. Type designations are used for descriptive purposes only.