I moved to Fisher fine refills because medium used to blob up and it was annoying as hell. I had to keep cleaning the point or blotting a blob of ink off the page. I never will likely ever buy another medium again. It happened to every medium as time goes on, maybe not initially... but the more you use it it eventually happens. Fine are great.
I would not recommend the space pen refills for the following two reasons: 1) They dry very slowly - this could be intentional - as they're indended to write on surfaces that are normally difficult to write on 2) They write blotchy. This is caused by a lackluster ballpoint implementation But if you need a pressurized cartridge, by all means, this is for you.
They dry slowly? In my 15+ years of using space pens I have never noticed this. The only remotely close thing is when medium/bold ones age through use they get blobby and then yes the blob will smear even after a little while. But when written Fisher ink dries relatively quickly actually.
I have a new datecode medium which blobs and smears after a little while... Good Japanese ballpoint inks -- or French-made Parker Quink (which don't blob like the Fisher -- and they're not hybrid inks, they're old-style oil-based inks) dry quicker.
An update: I experimented with a Uni Power Tank, which is also a pressurized cartridge. I am referring to the plastic power tank cartridges, not the metal smart series powertank. The Power Tank is most certainly superior to the Fisher cartridge. It's also 1.0mm. There's no comparison. It does not blob, period. Might I suggest you try their blue medium to understand the issue? Blue is more difficult to engineer than black ink. The blobbing factor becomes increasingly difficult to control the larger the diameter. For trasitional high-viscosity oil inks, so far I've only found that Made in France Parker 1mm cartridges as well as Zebra 1mm cartridges perform adequately (For Parker, the Jotter was tested and for Zebra, the D1 was tested, but I'm expecting some more Zebra 1mm blue varieties in the mail for review. Parker D1 should be avoided. They are garbage). For low-viscosity oil blue inks (which are too dark for my liking), I've found Pilot RFNS performs well in blue 1mm, Power Tank 1mm (SNP-10), and I'm sure there are others, but again, low-viscosity blue isn't as difficult to engineer without blobbing or smudging as traditional blue ink is. And then there are cartridges which are absolutely awful. Itoya 1mm blue is completely inadequate. I could use Fisher 1mm blue in a pinch, but for $10 each cartridge, they ought to do a better job. Sal needs to do a video about this. I use blue ink exclusively because the type of document I usually write is the kind that needs to be identified as an original and not a photocopy. With black ink, it's not immediately obvious. I also loathe 0.7mm. Either 0.5mm for me or 1mm. Quality 0.5mm blue is also difficult to find but that's another post. Once you go over 1mm for blue, the options are quite limited. So far Papermate 1.4mm is the only somewhat acceptable extra bold pen. It's a Korean product.
@@khachaturian100 Where do you work, Fred Flintstones's quarry? In what industry do you have hand-written documents that need to be identified as original in the year 2020? Everything is digital!
@@sillybb6327 If I'm not mistaken, China puts massive import tariffs on anything imported from the United States. That's why the pen is so expensive to buy in China.
@@unsharpen Ok Thanks!! Btw, check out LINC Majesta Zenith ballpoint pen. Guess its only available in India but its there on Amazon india. Its really cool for the price point and has a Knurling too :)
