One problem was that while the ball worked better than ... and sat on top of the paper rather than seeping through the fibers. While gravity and pen angle had been a problem in previous designs ...

An ordinary ballpoint pen is held in a spring-loaded carrier, which provides just enough pen-to-paper pressure to reliably draw lines without lifting off or scratching the paper. We can’t help ...

Gone are the days of quills, ink and crumpled-up pieces of paper thrown into wastebins ... Classic bulk-bought ball-point pens cause painful writer’s bumps, while traditional fountain pens ...