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I like pistons except when it's time to clean them. Eyedroppers are just such a piece of cake. And I am a high ink capacity person! I love my E95S (I refill the cartridge), but it's currently on hiatus because I got so tired of running out of ink almost every week!

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The cartridge method is superb when it comes to Pilots… imagine trying to write with con 40 installed. Would be running out of ink daily!

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Numbers 3, 4, & 5 seem basically the same to me. I like low capacity options because I like to change ink frequently.

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Some people do be particular about how they like their torture devices to be! When I use those three, I don’t fill to the full capacity for the same reason as you.

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Okay, I’ll bite. I like my pens like I like my coffee. Deep, impactful, lots of flavour notes and more expensive than they have any right to be. Fancy filling mechanisms are a must.

As the resident chem nerd I feel it my duty to point out that pipettes are usually the length of a human’s arm, unless you’re one of those freaky wavy balloon advertising dummies in front of shops, in which case you have other problems to worry about. Pasteur pipettes are another story. Those are your typical transfer pipettes. I say this because I had the hilarious image of someone trying to stick a full sized glass pipette into their back pocket, accidentally ripping a hole into that pocket, and sitting on it and consequently breaking the gigantic glass tube hanging down like a scabbard, only much less cool and much more painful. Equally dangerous.

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