Parker Ingenuity - Any Updates?

[Romagno]

I was wondering how the Parker Ingenuity is doing in the marketplace, whether it has any devoted followers, or whether it is following the path of the Edsel.

[T1Love]

Not a fan here!

[gordonhooker]

An expensive felt pen that tries to look like a fountain pen - not my cup of tea I am afraid..... Why not just buy a fountain pen?

[Sasha Royale]

$150 felt-tip pen, that resembles a fountain pen ? I can't figure the intended market. Is it a person with too much stature, or too high self-image, to use a lowly PaperMate 20/20 felt-tip ?

 

Update: It is still $150. I still don't have one. I have not encountered anyone, other than at the sales counter, who has one.

[pajaro]

Intended for the airhead pomposities knowing nothing about fountain pens?

 

Or are we just deluding ourselves that there is actual prestige in carrying and using a fountain pen?

 

Are we just trying to recapture the esteemed atmosphere of times of yore?

 

Personally I am just having fun doing most of what I ever did with a fountain pen: filling it and scribbling.

[Romagno]

Thanks for the replies.

 

They re-enforce my sense that the Parker Ingenuity is the answer to a question that nobody was asking.

[Arieut]

For the price, one can get a very decent fountain pen, not a felt tipped fountain pen look-alike. Just my two cents.

[Kiaxa]

What bugs me the most about the Ingenuity is not that it's trying to pass itself off as a fountain pen but its the fact that the refills are $10 a cartridge, not a pack of cartridges, a single cartridge. All that seems to be different between it and any other felt tip cartridge is the "feed".

 

Actually I just looked through Parker's 5th technology brief and apparently the tip is supposed to be able to flex around at the stem and the "feed" and "tines" are supposed to keep the tip under control and stop it from flexing around too much and damaging itself

[Ceelo]

I've yet to see anyone using one, and there appears to be little interest from customers at my bricks and mortar pen store.

[pajaro]

Parker should have the thing receive text messages and ink spray them on paper.

 

Then let you write text messages on paper or in the air and send them.

[icardoth]

They will eventually stop making the refills. Then they will become a new Liquid Lead: Useless.

[mitto]

... and , hence , become 'rare and collectable'. Lol.

Edited September 12, 2015 by mitto

[ian1964]

$150 felt-tip pen, that resembles a fountain pen ? I can't figure the intended market. Is it a person with too much stature, or too high self-image, to use a lowly PaperMate 20/20 felt-tip ?

 

Update: It is still $150. I still don't have one. I have not encountered anyone, other than at the sales counter, who has one.

No different really then to a person who buys a Montblanc or Pelikan when they could just as easily buy Pilot V Pen.

[Boyd8th]

Just a continuation of the down spin spiral of Parker. When I began collecting.... Parker Duofolds were it for me. Too bad. I still collect them but I am sad about a former great pen company.

[pajaro]

No different really then to a person who buys a Montblanc or Pelikan when they could just as easily buy Pilot V Pen.

Eh?

[Cozmo]

So who is going to be the first to pull apart a Parker Ingenuity's refill, and put their own ink into it?

 

I have just emptied and refilled a Pilot V Razor fine point, fiber tipped pen, with Noodler's #41 Brown fountain pen ink. Great results!

 

So if your piggy bank is empty from buying Parker's $100+ fiber tip pen, you might want to save the empties, and refill with your favorite ink.