What is a rollerball and a ball-point pen?
Rollerballs and ball-points vastly differ from fountain pens . Ball Point : A ball-point pen functions by directing ink towards gravity’s pull (to the paper when held point down), and rolling the viscous ink onto the paper via the ball contained in the point end of the tube reservoir of ink, much in the same way a paint roller rolls paint onto a wall. This ink dries immediately. No other writing instrument can match the universality of the ball-point pen (except perhaps, the wooden pencil and the crayon). The ball-point pen remains functionally flexible by being well suited to carbon copies, photocopy and fax originals. A quality ball-point creates a consistent line neither skipping nor blotting on the paper. Rollerball – The roller ball is a wonderful halfway point between the fountain pen and the ball point,. The roller ball creates a similar line to the fountain pen with respect to the intensity of colour. This mode of writing instrument has the same convenience as the ball-point. T
