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Fountain Pens

A fountain pen is a writing instrument, more specifically a pen, that contains a reservoir of liquid ink composed primarily of water.  The ink is held in the reservoir by air pressure until needed, at which time it is fed to a nib through a "feed" via a combination of gravity and capillary action. Refilling the fountain pen reservoir with ink involves replacing an ink cartridge, or filling the pen with an eyedropper, or using one of a variety of internal mechanisms, which creates suction, to draw ink from a bottle.  The ink is drawn through the nib and held in the pen's reservoir.  Older pens squeezed and released an internal rubber sack to create the suction needed.  Most modern pens use a removable internal converter, comprising a screw or piston mechanism, to create the suction and draw ink into the fountain pen.

Rollerball Pens

Roller ball pens use a ball point and a water-based ink.  By comparison, a typical ball-point pen uses a ball point and an oil-based ink.  The ink in a roller ball tends to saturate more deeply and more widely into the paper than the ink from a ball-point pen.

Types
There are two types of roller ball pens: those that use a liquid ink and those that use a gel containing ink.  A roller ball has two advantages over a ball point: first, less pressure needs to be applied to the pen to have it write cleanly.  This permits holding the pen with less stress on the hand.  Second, the ink is brighter.  Gel roller ball pens use a jelly-like ink: the ink sets just after it is applied to the paper and is no longer being "rolled" around.  Gel inks do not sink into the paper as much as liquid ink.  Also, gels carry color better that liquid ink, so gel based pens are available in a brighter and wider range of colors than liquid ink pens.

Ballpoint Pens

A ballpoint pen, in many countries also eponymously called a biro, is a writing instrument, more specifically a pen, similar to a pencil in size and shape.  The pens have an internal chamber filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of a small metal sphere (0.7 mm to 1 mm in diameter); the ink dries almost immediately after contact with paper. Inexpensive, reliable and maintenance-free, they have almost completely replaced the fountain pen.

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