Once upon a time, I whipped open an exam so fast that I gave myself a papercut – and the only pen I had with me was an old-school Bic biro – the ... The same goes for blue ink pens.

It’s probably hard to imagine writing with a feather and a bottle of ink, but that’s what writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came along, they were ...

Ballpoint pens distribute fast-drying ink without the ink drying in the pen itself. It uses a thick, oil-based ink that is dispersed by a small ball in a socket at the head of the pen. The ...