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Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011)

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Re: Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011)

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Post by Angostura »

ternaryoperator wrote: post #3

I use fountain pens when I can because I like the feel of writing with them and, to a limited extent the, I enjoy the ritual of caring for the instruments. It has long bothered me that I cannot simply buy pen ink without the background information presented in this article. Because of the issue of inks damaging my pens, I've become increasingly unwilling to experiment with new brands of ink or trying sensational colo…

Do you get "Quink" in the US? Always the standard in the UK.

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Post by flounders »

Feniks wrote: post #9

As someone who writes with his left hand I hate them with a vengeance. Haven't looked at them since primary school.

I'm a lefty as well, and initially my hand would smear the ink as I was writing. I think I had that problem with rollerball pens to begin with, so after I did some research on proper handwriting technique, I learned I needed to hold the pen such that my hand was underneath it much like a right handed person holds it by default. It took some time to adjust but I'm more comfortable writing with any pen now than when I used to have more of a claw grip. Once you get that down, using a fountain pen will never be a problem for you and is far more of a pleasure to write with than most other writing implements will give you.

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Post by innocentoldguy »

I use fountain pens and glass pens all the time, and have tried inks from all over the world. My favorite ink is Take-Sumi, by Pilot, from Japan.

If you’re interested in fountain pens and ink, Massdrop is a good place to sample a variety of options.

Re: Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011)

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Post by blattimwind »

_emacsomancer_ wrote: post #18

I like fountain pens a lot, but most of the times I actually need to write, I need to do so away from a desktop and fountain pens aren't ideal for these conditions (for those occasions I have the zebra 701+space pen hacked pen [e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S4bjPG5Lr4] ).

I don't quite follow?

Re: Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011)

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Post by jseliger »

If you like pigmented pens but don't want to use them in a fountain pen, for the reasons the author lists, consider a Pigma Micron pen: http://kk.org/cooltools/pigma-micron-pn-pen. They're available from Jetpens and are expensive enough to be good but not so expensive as to be terrible when lost.
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