This knife also could be used for maintaining the point of a quill pen. The handle often was flattened to help smooth the fibers of the paper before applying ink again. Joseph Gillott, an English ...

Bíró’s ink was oil-based, and sat on top of the paper rather than seeping through the fibers. While gravity and pen angle had been a problem in previous designs, his ink induced capillary ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world ... will deliver consistent writing across all paper types, whereas a fountain pen’s ink will bleed on low-quality thin paper.