[geeks] Pens and ink

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Mon May 11 16:16:05 CDT 2009


Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
>> I like the Platinum Preppy pens a lot more than the Pilot V/Varsity
>> pens:
> 
> I'm still looking for a replacement for what I've used since college:
> 0.3mm Sanford Uniball pens w/ liquid ink.  They're reliable, comfortable
> inexpensive, great for duplicates through carbon/NCR paper, cheap, and
> recently discontinued.  They also don't scratch across the paper like


Try the Pilot P-500 "Extra Fine".  It's a .5mm, not .3mm, but it writes
more finely than most .5mm pens, and with the gel ink, they just write
soooo smoothly and .....

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