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    Default Re: Rollerball vs. Ballpoint

    Quote Originally Posted by KBeezie View Post

    There's also the Zebra Emulsion ink (sort of a combination of traits).
    That's just one of many hybrids. And about the worst, partly because of short ink life - people who buy Zebra's very nice multipens and pocket pens often replace the refills with the compatible Jetstream model.

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    Huh, Papermate's InkJoy is actually an hybrid ink? They never mention it anywhere.

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    Default Re: Rollerball vs. Ballpoint

    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.

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    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.

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    Default Re: Rollerball vs. Ballpoint

    Quote Originally Posted by aquafox View Post
    Huh, Papermate's InkJoy is actually an hybrid ink? They never mention it anywhere.
    Here: https://www.officestationery.co.uk/p...ck-ref-107499/

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    Quote Originally Posted by migo984 View Post
    Things a ballpoint pen can do better than a rollerball:
    - sketch on cartridge and Eco drawing paper
    - label freezer bags
    - fill in The Guardian crossword
    - write in shiny greetings cards
    - release the case on my phone
    - fill in forms that still use NCR (yes these are still around)
    - provide a temporary fix for my car parcel shelf

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaputnik View Post
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    It's a matter of the right tool for the job. On the rare occasions when I might write on plastic, I'd rather use a Sharpie.

    Quote Originally Posted by catbert View Post
    ....the right tool for the job.
    Indeed, right tool for the job.

    I always have 2 writing instruments with me: a FP and a BP/Gel/RB. But I prefer BP and gel pens over RBalls.

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    Default Re: Rollerball vs. Ballpoint

    Quote Originally Posted by usk15 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by aquafox View Post
    Huh, Papermate's InkJoy is actually an hybrid ink? They never mention it anywhere.
    Here: https://www.officestationery.co.uk/p...ck-ref-107499/
    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.

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    Default Re: Rollerball vs. Ballpoint

    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

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    Default Re: Rollerball vs. Ballpoint

    For gel pens I'm using Pentel Energel, seems to be the best out there.

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    Default Re: Rollerball vs. Ballpoint

    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.

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