Huh, Papermate's InkJoy is actually an hybrid ink? They never mention it anywhere.
There's lots of thoughts here, preferences one way or another based on paper types, bleed, writing angle and so on.
Here's my input, and it is just a personal feeling. I like a rollerball, I do, but I kind of prefer a ballpoint.
Sacrilege? Maybe, but here's the thing; I have terrible handwriting, that's why I use a fountain pen - it slows me down almost to the point of legibility. A rollerball requires very little pressure to lay ink onto paper, the liquid ink has very little resistance and, to be honest, it feels a little lightweight to me. A ballpoint, on the other hand, needs some work to push along the page and, to my under-educated hand at least, it almost feels as if it has more, well, quality. I write more slowly with a ballpoint and, as a result, I write better.
All of the above is entirely subjective, YMMV.
I have a Parker Vector rollerball somewhere. Can't really remember how it felt to write with it, but I somehow do remember the Jotter ballpoint pen being more of my preference.
There's confusion with InkJoy. There's the newer InkJoy gel, which some people really like, and is obviously a gel not hybrid. The InkJoy ballpoint seems like it is a hybrid, but it's also the worst of the hybrids I've tried, not a patch on Jetstream, Schmidt and Schneider.
The InkJoy Gel is terrible IME: a 0.7 gel pen that bleeds and drips ink everywhere is something I have never seen before. Also ti forced me to hold it vertically to achieve a readable trait
For gel pens I'm using Pentel Energel, seems to be the best out there.
I think that, if you are carrying a fountain pen, a rollerball seems redundant, unless it has a ballpoint refill. There some documents I didn't like signing with either fountain or rollerball pen. Ballpoint was sometimes required. Fountain and ballpoint pens worked for me.
Kaputnik (January 3rd, 2019)
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