Fountain Pens

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A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper. It is distinguished from earlier dip pens by using an internal reservoir to hold ink, eliminating the need to repeatedly dip the pen in an inkwell during use. The pen draws ink from the reservoir through a feed to the nib and deposits the ink on paper via a combination of gravity and capillary action. Filling the reservoir with ink may be achieved manually, via the use of an eyedropper or syringe, or via an internal filling mechanism that creates suction (for example, through a piston mechanism) or a vacuum to transfer ink directly through the nib into the reservoir. Some pens employ removable reservoirs in the form of pre-filled ink cartridges.

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Article title : Fountain pen
"A fountain pen is a writing instrument that uses a metal nib to apply water-based ink, or special pigment ink—suitable for fountain pens—to paper. It is..."
Article title : Fountain pen ink
"Fountain pen ink is a water-based ink intended for use with fountain pens. Fountain pen ink is almost exclusively dye-based because fountain pens operate..."
Article title : Pen
"dip pens, which were used for writing, have been replaced by ballpoint pens, rollerball pens, fountain pens and felt or ceramic tip pens. Ruling pens, which..."
Article title : Ballpoint pen
"and developed as a cleaner and more reliable alternative to dip pens and fountain pens, and it is now the world's most-used writing instrument; millions..."
Article title : Pilot (pen company)
"Africa, Germany and France. Most Pilot pens are made in Japan, France and the US. Namiki, Pilot's fountain pens with maki-e lacquering designs, are made..."
Article title : Sailor (pen company)
"its name to the “Sailor Pen Sakata-Manufactory Co., Ltd.”. Here it began the production of fountain pens. The first ballpoint pens were produced in 1948..."
Article title : Nib (pen)
"media related to Dip pens. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fountain pen nibs. Blam! Design, calligraphy and vintage pens The Pen Museum at Birmingham..."
Article title : Iron gall ink
"small ink passages in fountain pen feeds. Further, very acidic traditional iron gall inks intended for dip pens can corrode metal pen parts (a phenomenon..."
Article title : Montblanc (company)
"production fountain pens are traditionally Montblancs, with some retail pens selling in excess of US $30,000, and some specialty and limited edition pens selling..."
Article title : Dip pen
"early 19th century, when they replaced quill pens and, in some parts of the world, reed pens. Dip pens were widely used well into the 20th century, only..."

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