Parker Ingenuity

[jma97]

I've been looking at the Parker Ingenuity and personally I think they're good looking pens, but I've read some negative reviews on the quality of the ink refills. Any thoughts on this anybody?

[Charles Rice]

This might be the wrong forum to find an objective review of the Ingenuity.

[jma97]

This might be the wrong forum to find an objective review of the Ingenuity.

 

Where would this be better placed?

[Charles Rice]

I should had said "site". Not too many fans of that pen here.

[T1Love]

Don't waste your money!

[Matlock]

Don't

[Ernst Bitterman]

I had one for review, and nothing I've heard since I wrote this changes my views on the thing. I wouldn't contest your enjoyment of its looks, but I can't recommend it as a pen.

[welch]

The Ingenuity is a pretty good fiber-tipped pen. It is NOT a fountain pen. It is a bit like a fountain pen with integrated point-and-ink, removable, just like a ballpoint...except that the point is some kind of fiber and the entire filling system was invented in the late '60s.

 

I think the Levenger True-Writer fiber pen is better and less expensive. Review here:

 

https://inkophile.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/a-variation-on-the-levenger-true-writer-theme/

 

Pens (Levenger fiber also uses their roller-ball refill):

 

http://www.levenger.com/PENS---REFILLS-8/ROLLERBALL-PENS-830.aspx

 

Levenger refills:

 

http://www.levenger.com/Search/PenRefillResults.aspx

 

Two advantages of the Levenger fiber-tip refill: about $5 each, or half the price of the Parker Ingenuity refill; the Levenger pen is cylindical, so you can rotate as you write. As Ernst says, the Parker refill writes itself flat very quickly.

 

When I gave up my Parker 45 (about 45 years ago...yikes!!) I switched to Sanford Expresso fiber-tipped pens because the old Expresso had almost the same feel as a fountain pen. Gave up both when my company began issuing paper that caused Anything but a ballpoint (or a pencil) to act as if it had been put on a blotter. Probably called "feathering".

Edited May 26, 2015 by welch