BIC Cristal Original Ballpoint Pens, Every-Day Biro Pens with Medium Point (1.0mm), Blue Ink, Pack of 10

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you would get for 10p? Leaky and unreliable? The Bic Biro is clean, reliable, long lasting and because of the The simple design is classless, no one would be embarassed to be seen writing with a Bic. It is the pen of the people. By the late 1950' BIC held 70% of the european market and by 1960 it had bought 100% of its american rival Waterman Pens and began to sell BIC ballpoint pens in the USA. A chance meeting with Augustine Justo, the president of Argentina, led him to encourage them to set up a factory to produce their pens in Argentina. They did this a few years later when World War II broke out in Europe home in the UK that does not have one. Without the invention of this everyday object, that is taken for granted,

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Author Philip Hensher, who also runs a creative writing course at Bath Spa University in the UK, wrote a 2012 book on handwriting called The Missing Ink in which he praised the ballpoint pen. He says Bic not only found the way to produce vast quantities cheaply, but crucially hit upon a winning design right from the start. “If you have a product that needs no improvement – only tiny changes have been made to the Bic pens since the 1960s – you probably don’t have a lot of overheads.” But this created a problem. So many companies – including Eversharp and the fountain pen maker Parker – jumped on the ballpoint bandwagon that the market became saturated. People bought refills, but they didn’t buy more pens. This simple everyday object is considered by some to be a design classic. Its functionality, truth to form, and simple clean design is My invention consists of an improved reservoir or fountain pen, especially useful, among other purposes, for marking on rough surfaces-such as wood, coarse wrapping-paper, and other articles where an ordinary pen could not be used.” One of the first things you're probably thinking when you look at this picture is how unremarkable it is! Bic pens are a part of our daily lives, it's difficult to go a single day without seeing one! Though this may make them seem boring, it's truly a testament to how well they're designed!

Bich realised the ballpoints so far had been premium products – an alternative designed to be regularly replaced could be a lot cheaper. Bich acquired a dormant factory near Paris and set about creating his new company, Societe Bic. An advertising executive had suggested the industrialists shorten his surname to create an instantly recognisable three-letter trademark. The company’s trademark logo, the Bic Boy, had a smooth featureless orb as a face – a reference to the metal ball in the point of the pen. There are no direct costs to you for running a public drop-off point. Many collectors spend nothing other than their time. Those 100 billion ballpoint pens sold are probably all still in landfill,” says Curtin, noting that in most cases the pens’ bodies themselves are perfectly able to be reused again and again. “Just because the ink has run dry, we throw the whole thing out. That’s quite strange.”

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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. Fortunately your old plastic biros, fibre tips, gel pens and other writing instruments do not need to go to landfill. Recyclers Terracycle have partnered with pen manufacturer Bic to set up community pen recycling points across the UK at schools, shops and businesses. Gimbels was the first to sell a new kind of ink pen, the design of which had taken several decades to come to fruition. The pens, made by the Reynolds International Pen Company, promised an end to the messy mishaps users of fountain pens encountered – leaking ink, smudges and pooling ink blots. On 29 October 1945, the New York City branch of Gimbels department store unveiled a new product. Billions upon billions would follow in its wake.Produced since 1950, the Cristal has sold in mind-boggling quantities: it notched up 100 billion sales by 2006. It is such an everyday object that its strengths are easy to overlook. we would be carrying about fountain pens and the necessary ink for refilling. Can you imagine what sort of fountain pen The hexagonal body makes it easy to grip; the “transparent shaft that allows you to see the ink running out”, Hensher says. A tiny hole in the body equalises the air pressure both inside and outside the pen. Then there is the ink, drying in a couple of seconds instead of the 10s of seconds. “To be perfectly honest, the Bic pen is just such a miracle you don’t even think about it anymore. The hexagonal shape of the pen is inspired by the shape of a traditional pencil. This shape makes the pen strong and durable, as well as giving the user better grip and stability whilst they write. Ballpoint pen manufacturers are aware of this plastic pollution crisis. Bic themselves make a range of pens produced from 74% recycled plastic. More producers are promoting the idea of refills for plastic pens, and not just the metal ones that come with premium price tags. Other pen manufacturers have replaced the plastic body with tubes made of cardboard, or metal – the very material the first premium ballpoints were made of more than seven decades ago.