Was at an Art Supply store yesterday with my family and these were at the register. Decided to get one and give it a try.

I bought this fountain pen for ₹50 at a local stationery shop. It has a hooded nib and it looks so bright and colourful! Writes well too ✨

It’s me new fav, it’s about to run out and I can’t find it! All the brand info has long since worn off. It writes so smooth!!!!

The Uni Zento is finally available in green!!!!!!!

Euro style refill, as with all one colour Zentos

Price is the same as standard models

I only found them in 0.7

Found in Singapore Popular bookstores

Currently not available as refills (for me), so you might have to buy the entire pen for now

My new pen.

I was gifted the gel pen as seen, with screw-into-the-pen refill. Besides the environmental factor, I really do like the pen itself. On their website this pen was stated refillable but I am struggling to find a refill to replace. I've also contacted pukka, no response. My search suggested various refills including the Pilot G2 but none actually fits, because the original ink fill is a screw-into-the-pen type :(

Help? Any steer to a potential screw-into-the-pen refill would be appreciated. TYIA

Current collection, two more come tomorrow... I may have e problem .. not a fan of the form factor on the zento...

My son is starting at Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang in late August. He is doing a BA/BFA dual degree in product design and cinematography/film studies. I want to get him a pen that will feel special but is classic and under the radar. More of an "if you know" type of pen. I have looked at things like the Lamy 2000 , super nice, but it's more fitting for a general-use pen. I have looked at designer pens up to Cartier, but he really didn't like them, and they seem fancy but not really nice writing instruments. I am leaning toward a classic vintage Montblanc, but I am open to suggestions, possibly a special edition. Any input on a reliable, quality, good-feeling pen that will also feel special is highly appreciated. This would be more of a sometimes pen, as he has several art pens for drawing or mass note-taking.

Edit: I would prefer a vintage option and am willing to go to the $300-$400 USD range at the top end of the budget, but also don't need to spend that much.

Has anyone used Hörner G2 refills? Was looking for a good green refill for a jotter or a rotring 600. Came across their website but can't find much in the way of reviews.

I tried the Fisher refill and it was good but a bit too dark for my liking. Will probably try a Monteverde next but at €10 for a 3-pack I might pick up a pack of these Hörner to try too.

Any other recs would be appreciated. The Monteverde seems to be the only gel refill I can reliably find in green.

Is this normal? I did a google search and the results say to hold at a different angle. I'm not sure I can do that. Maybe the pen just isn't for me. Which is unfortunate because the black is BLACK and I love it.

What's the blackest gel ink I can get that doesn't skip so bad?

Sorry for 3 posts today. I just wanted to share my very obscure list to see if anyone else could benefit from this information.

I took all the answers I found on Reddit after posting about this, multiple reviews online, YouTube videos, etc. and created a list of pens that met two main criteria: very thin, and minimal bleeding/ghosting. I need pens that can be used to write in the thin margins of books with thin paper. I am currently using the Faber-Castell Pitt 0.05mm artist pen. Realistically, none of the pens on this list will make a significant difference; I just wasted over an hour procrastinating by doing this. Hopefully a single other person could make use of this.

Here's the top 11 list, if anyone cares:

1. Uni Jetstream Edge 0.28 mm (Oil-Based Ballpoint)

2. Uni Pin Fineliner (Felt Tip)

3. Pilot Hi-Tec-C (Gel Bio-Polymer-Ink)

4. Sakura Micron (Felt-Tip)

5. Uniball Signo DX (Gel Ink)

6. Staedtler Pigment Liner (Felt Tip)

7. Copic Multiliner (Felt Tip)

8. Pilot Juice (Up to 0.3mm); (Gel Ink)

9. Pilot FriXion (Erasable Gel Ink)

10. Pentel Slicci (Gel Ink)

11. Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pen 0.05mm (Felt-tip)

The important thing to note, which I learned by posting on here, is that a 0.5mm ballpoint is equivalent to a 0.1mm felt-tip fineliner. I'm assuming there is some similar conversion with gel pens. If anyone has experience with these pens and objects to my list, please share. I purchased all three of the top three on this list.

I don't collect pens and this may be the first and last time I think about pants this deeply... however, this was kinda fun for me. I could make use of multiple different kinds of pens, especially something thicker, so maybe I'll go deeper down this rabbit hole.

I really like how the Pilot 0.4mm Finliner writes when it is brand new (almost like a really hard and short brush pen). But sadly this characteristic doesn't hold up and is gone after aprox a week of writing with it.
Link Pilot 0.4mm Fineliner (https://www.ttpen.com/products/pilot-fineliner-marker-pens-0-4mm-fine-point-black-blue-red-ink-5-pack?srsltid=AfmBOor7P8j2XIv2riHHVApYhcthSv2yb6D99edeicoRLlgu7uV5vXHl)

My writing example is with an already used one that soon will loose the brush pen aspect.
I would like it to be a little more variation in stroke thickness than shown in the pic.

Do you guys have any recommendations for me?

The pen sometime gets stuck in the open position, what can be a possible fix?

Years ago my husband got a nice pen from a job, that I ended up taking and using until it died. He has joked with me a few times that I owe him a new nicer pen with his name engraved on it. So for his birthday coming up I’d like to do just that. I know nothing really about good pens. The two most expensive options at my local office supply store are an A.T Cross Coventry and the Jotter XL. Are either of these a decent option or should I be looking to get something online? Realistically we’re both blue collar so this pen will just be for making notes/doodles and sitting at his PC desk. Not looking to spend more than $100 since I’ll still have to figure out engraving it after too! Thanks for your time and suggestions!

I have a Reform Refograph 1.0 mm pen and thought to try some white ink with it. Got some Rapidograph white universal ink, but it was translucent when writing on black paper. Does anyone have a recommendation for opaque white ink for my tech pen?

Over the last few months I've been working on my penmanship and been collecting pens.

So im not sure if this is the correct place to ask this but

Whats the difference between

Gel pen, liquid gel, and oil gel?

And how do they feel to use?

So since im a student I use a lot of disposable pens.

And recently ive gotten into a few Japanese pens, but while inquiring about them I was told that the difference between a expensive pen is mostly the build and feel, ink and writing experience is 10%-20% better at most.

Ive tried a few uniball, pentel and pilot pens. I do like them a lot although I want to know, is a pen that costs 5-10 times more than a disposable pen really that much better or is it more about slight refinements?

How do you guys use your pens? What do you like about them?