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A couple of days ago on a local group on social media I see yet another couple ( yes 2 of them ) of designer project so to speak of doing 3D printed ( the guys emphasized that ) pens. Unfortunately when I check them out those are yet another couple of fancy barrel for ED to take nothing more than the typical ( Bock , Schmidt, Knox, ... well type in your own ) nib unit. in fact from a fountain pen technical / engineering these are no more than yet another hack back to pre self filler era of how fountain pen were ... I've got in some discussion with the project initiaters and they are genuinely good guys but I must say too many of them are just so much hobbyist in the 3D printing part, and artsy designer, to the point that almost all of these come out to be nothing more than fancy barrel / ink container. Yes they are fashion designer item, not 3D printed pens. they are pens that have a 3D printed ( and fancy to the pint of impractical ink container / barrel ) Well sure those are attractive I am not against that , but in their promoting material they all like to brag about the usage of 3D printing as how something new and revolutionary; but when drilled the only real cause is that now they can do barrel that they cannot do with traditional method in a small batch operation / production .. again noting wrong with that, many fountain pen today are actually fashion item alright so why not yet another .. My ranting to them is that .. then do not try to emphasis that you are using 3D printing to say give us REALLY SOMETHING NEW in tech and pens ( their word , not mine ) Sorry guys but you are not using 3D Printing to produce pens, you are using the to produce pen parts ( again nothing wrong with that ) please sell the pen as it is for its own virtue .. I am by training and by profession an engineer .. and I can see the technology used in fountain pen making and a lot can be done with the technology other than giving us yet another fancy barrel ( and even that can do an engineering re make using the technology in a meaningful and practical engineering reasonable cause other than just for good looks ) ... you guys thoughts on these regarding ...