• Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    14 小时前

    I have a Plaisir Platinum fountain pen that’s awesome. It was pretty cheap as far as fountain pens go but it writes really nicely and has a good solid feel to it.

    For day-to-day disposable pens I like the Zebra Sarasa ones, or the Pilot P500 for drawing. I bought a big box of the P500s to keep in reserve in case they ever stop making them lol.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    23 小时前

    Papermate inkjoy. The other nurses keep trying to steal my last one that I stole from my last workplace just before it started going downhill and stopped buying the nice pens. It was about 6-8 months before they swapped all our managers and supervisors with ones that were literally physically violent. Now that I think about it the pens have actually been a pretty good thermometer of all my past workplaces. If you go to a hospital and all the nurses have the same decently nice pens, that means their employer is probably taking decent care of them (at least as far as healthcare execs go) and well kept nurses are better at taking care of patients.

  • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 天前

    OP asking the real questions! Also just ducking glad to see something not news or politics related. My gosh it’s overwhelming today.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 天前

      The cheap white plastic bics with the colored rubber grips are some of the most consistent pens ever. The cheap black/blue all plastic ones are some of the shittiest pens ever. I don’t understand how this is the case.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 天前

    Parker, usually. But Pilot is also good. Depends if I want a nice pen or a cheap pen. Kawecos are really nice, but I don’t currently own one.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 天前

      I literally go to the bank to write my novel. The tellers are starting to suspect why I’m a depositing a single penny every ten minutes

  • DefrostedTuna@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 天前

    I’m no pen enthusiast, but I used to really enjoy Zebra. Build quality was good for the price point, and they were super smooth to write with. Unfortunately the quality went downhill maybe 5 or so years ago and they haven’t been great in my opinion ever since. They still feel fine physically, but the ink will stop dispensing randomly while writing. Got sick of it and switched to Pilot. Been using Pilot Precise V5 0.5mm and find them great. The ink runs a little wet though, so the only downside is that if you rub your palm across the page too soon after writing it’ll smear a bit.

      • 200ok@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 天前

        If you’re looking for a satisfying twisting pen, the Faber Castell hexo ballpoint has been my favorite for a while now.

        It uses a parker style refill, so I swapped it out for a Schmidt easy flow 9000 😙👌

  • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
    1·
    2 天前

    I carry a Fisher Space Pen everywhere, but I switched its cartridge for Pilot Hi-Tec-C refills. It takes a little fiddling to get the refill in there, but once it’s in it works great!

      • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        14 小时前

        Pilot Hi-Tec-C is a gel pen with refills that happen to fit in the Space Pen. It puts down a crisp, fine line.

        The problem with the stock Space Pen is that it’s a messy ballpoint. I might be getting worse-than-typical results due to being left handed, but in general I find ballpoints don’t write crisp lines, and the ink smudges on my hand much more than gel pens do. But with the gel swap I do lose the feature of being able to write upside-down.

        • papertowels@lemmy.one
          2·
          14 小时前

          I’ll have to try it out! I currently use fisher space pens, and while the pen is reliable, I definitely notice that it’s not guaranteed to write evenly.

          Was there any hacks you had to do to fit the refill?

          • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
            2·
            55 分钟前

            Yes; first pull the black plastic piece out of the end of the refill. I read that there needs to be a little airflow into the refill for ink to flow, and when the back of the refill is jammed into the pen that can cut off airflow so you might cut a little notch in the end of the refill where the black plastic piece was. I also sometimes trim about 4mm off the end of the refill, or put a tiny bit of wadded paper in the pen for spacing. But I do this a little differently every time I put a new refill in.

  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 天前

    I’ve used all kinds. My favorite is still the cheap Pilot G2. Writes effortlessly and has a great click to it.