People used to do this, and they still do, too.
Do what? Write with cheap but decent fountain pens?
People still do
Yeah… the only difference that I see here is the price, compare to something like a platinum preppy… with that you only get the installed cart with the pen.
Adjusting for inflation, that $1 is closer to $11. A preppy and half a ten pack of platinum black carts would be around $13.50 at US pen retailers, so not too bad overall.
That said, these are a small quantity novelty import. JDM you can get the preppy and a full ten pack for 900 JPY, or about $6.
#didthemath
Fountain pens are expressive and the efillable options are nicer for the planet.
I will agree that they are better for the planet, but I wouldn’t say that they are expensive, but they are more expensive than a ball point in most cases, becuase they are refillable. Platnium Preppy is a good example and can be had for usually less than $5. For nicer models that wont break you look at jinhao or hongdian with some of them being between $10-$30. The black forrest is particularly nice.
fair if you decide to take up the hobby, spend a lot of time with pens and , and talking with random people (info dumping… sorry) about fountain pens.
I used “expressive”. I think the nib forces me to consider what I’m putting on the page.
lol yes you did, and yes it does.
I still use cartridges on my fountain pen. Sometimes they become cheaper and also with those cartridges you can buy different colors without buying the whole ink.
Is there still that one girl that collect the small balls from cartridge so when your cartridge were empty you just gave it to here and she was super happy to actually collect you trash ?
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Yeah, it was compulsory in France at school, everyone had one, plus an “ink eraser” pen. And we all wrote in cursive, I don’t know how to write in another manner.
And some still do.
it may also be helpful if you’re not a fountain pen, user, fountain pens go through significantly more ink than a ballpoint pen because the makeup of the ink.
