Talk:Technical pen

koh-i-noor?

did koh-i-noor make rapidographs, or did they import rotrings from germany? -- Akb4 05:56, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

KOH-I-NOOR and Rotring both use the name rapidograph, are they related brands?

KOH-I-NOOR (Chartpak) rapidographs are of different construction than Rotring's. The construction is more complicated and seem to use better materials; furthermore, the nibs are replaceable where as Rotring's are not. Based on the following page KOH-I-NOOR rapidograph are manufactured in the USA: http://www.chartpak.com/kohinoor/select_rapidpen.htm. I've owned both. The opinions on performance between the two is non-conclusive. Personally, I seemed to have leakage problems with the Rotring's, but I've heard the converse as well.

http://www.rotring.com/en/produkte/tuschefueller/rapidograph.html http://www.chartpak.com/kohinoor/1drawing/rapidographpens.html

What's confusing is that KOH-I-NOOR and Rotring products are often shown together on the Chartpak site, but that might be due to Chartpak acquiring parts of Rotring?. – Zhaoshouren (talk) 06:42, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Why Page Sizes info within Technical Pen page?

The information on ISO page sizes is interesting... but is within a page about Technical Pens the place for it?? I'm new to Wikipedia page editing, but maybe someone more senior will feel justified in moving anything not already there to the Iso Page Sizes page, and removing it from the Technical Pens page? Tkbwik (talk) 13:34, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Agreed - I removed it as off-topic. Brett Buck (talk) 03:08, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Writing Style?

The article seems written as though technical pens are no longer commonly used or produced. I think that some of it should be brought into the present tense. Alexriehl13 (talk) 23:11, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

It's true though that such pens are no longer used to anything like the same extent they once were. It's quite difficult even to buy pens or ink these days, except online. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:27, 23 March 2012 (UTC)