BIC Cristal Original Ballpoint , Comfortable Biro Pens, Medium Point (1.0mm), Assorted Colours, Pack of 10

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A lot of money was spent on advertising the pen, and three years after it’s launch advertising genius Pierre Guichenne persuaded Bich to drop the ‘h’ from his family name to create a more catchy brand name. Its smoked barrel gives you the transparency you need to check the ink level while its handy cap matches the colour of the ink so you can easily find your pen in a second.

The shape of the barrel echoes that of a traditional wooden pencil, with hexagonal sides that ensure a comfortable and stable grip. Its hexagonal shape resembles the typical wooden pencil and grants strength and three grip points giving high writing stability. to have the correct ink for the purpose, and he and his brother set about formulating better inks to use in their newly designed pens. Your transactions and personal data will be held in a PCIDSS accredited system using secure encryption technologies.The inventor of the Bic Cristal, _ Bich created an ink of a perfect _viscosity (or thickness) for his ballpoint pen.

A small hole in the barrel insures that the air pressure is the same inside the pen and outside, helping to prevent the ink from leaking. It was introduced in 1950 and is the best-selling pen in the world, with the 100 billionth sold in September 2006. After he bought the patent for the Biro, Bich invested in Swiss technology capable accurately cutting the tungsten tip into a sphere with a diameter of one millimetre that would allow the ink to flow freely around it. Some ballpoint pens at Paperstone come with caps to shield the nib, while others are retractable and work at the push of a button.

BIC still makes the BIC Cristal Original pen in its own plants on machinery designed by BIC engineers. The story of the ballpoint pen begins in 1888 when John Loud, an American leather tanner, patented a roller-ball-tip marking pen. io/pimberly/595e406f0f15f30010780448/tr:w-1000,h-1000,cm-pad_resize/3ffb6bcf/5e218a4149279121b3000207/6449a731/BC59416_01. The BIC Cristal (stylised as BiC Cristal and also known as the Bic pen) is an inexpensive, disposable ballpoint pen mass-produced and sold by Société Bic of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

Because of the ink of the Bic pen is quite thick, it relies on gravity to ensure that the ink keeps on flowing out as it's being used.The Bic biro helped to move the public market from fountain pens to ballpoints with this affordable, disposable design.