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Quink was heavily advertised, and an immediate success. According to Kenneth Parker's personal journal, Quink production began on March 17, 1931, and $89,000 worth had been shipped by October 22—more than twice the company's expectations and an excellent return on the $68,000 spent on its development. [2]
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It was a simple cylindrical plastic cap and barrel roller-ball pen called the "Parker RB1". [27] In 1984, Parker added the FP1 ("Fountain Pen 1"), with essentially the same design. The RB1 and FP1 models were produced until 1986, at which time Parker revised the pen by lengthening the cap and shortening the barrel and renaming the new pen the ...
The Parker Jotter is the Parker Pen Company's second and best-selling retracting refillable ballpoint pen. The first was the Hopalong Cassidy ballpoint (Later a fountain pen, mechanical pencil and rollerball pen were introduced to the line). Since 1954, over 750 million have been sold worldwide.
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Surfactants reduce the surface tension of the ink; distilled water has a surface tension of 72 dyn/cm (72 × 10 −3 N/m), but the desirable value for ink is between 38 and 45 dyn/cm (38 to 45 × 10 −3 N/m). If the ink's surface tension were too high, then it would not flow through the pen; if it were too low, then the ink would run out of ...
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.