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Your Signature: Does Neatness Count?

November 30, 2009

Have you ever considered how you sign your name, or the pen you use to do it?
If you’re like a lot of us (including me), your signature is an illegible scrawl that you scratch out in a hurry when you finish a letter, fill out a document, or write a check. You’ve written your name [...]

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Ballpoint, Rollerball, or Gel: Which Pen is Best for You?

October 26, 2009

Trying to choose the right pen, but confused by all the different labels: ballpoint, liquid ink, gel, hybrid, rollerball? Yeah, we don’t blame you; it can get a little overwhelming.
But that’s good, too, because it means you have plenty of options when looking for a pen to fit your needs. All you need is an [...]

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How to Keep Your Pens from Drying Out

October 17, 2009

If you’re into pens, or use them a lot, it doesn’t take long to build up quite a pen collection. And since you probably don’t write with more than a couple at a time, you’re left to figure out how to keep the rest from drying out between uses.
Mostly, it’s a matter of the quality [...]

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So just how do you sell a pencil in a job interview – could this be the answer?

September 24, 2009

The classic interview question!
At least once in our careers, we have all faced some smug guy across the desk who will suddenly throw an object across the desk to you and say “sell me this”. You look at the object, usually something so commonplace and inanimate that it cannot possibly have any features or benefits [...]

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Thick or Thin: Choosing the Right Pen for Your Hand

September 16, 2009

If you’re like most people, comfort is probably one of the deciding factors when you’re trying to choose the right pen. A pen that writes beautifully and reliably isn’t worth much if it’s so uncomfortable to use that you rarely pick it up.
Pen selection is largely a matter of personal preference. However, there are a [...]

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5 Ways to keep you from losing your pen

September 4, 2009

It happens to everyone. You find the perfect pen – you know, cozy grip, smooth roll, ink that comes out in clean, neat lines – and swear that you’ll never let it out of your sight. You use it for a few weeks, or, if you’re lucky, a few months. Then, suddenly it vanishes. [...]

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Best Pens For Left Handed People

September 2, 2009

Lefties, we know you have it rough when it comes to finding good pens, since most of them are designed to be used by right-handers.
A typical right-handed person using a pen pulls it toward the right in a smooth motion, leaving a line of fresh ink untouched behind the writing hand.
A left-handed person has to [...]

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7 Steps to Better Handwriting

August 26, 2009

Handwriting is not a skill we practice much past school, especially now that most of our writing is done by keyboard. But, in certain circumstances, we still get judged by the quality of our handwriting.

Unless you’re a doctor, it’s important that your handwriting be at least legible enough that other people can read it. If [...]

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Hands Hurting? Give These Ergonomic Pens a Try

August 19, 2009

Sure, this is the computer age, but we all still use pens for just about every day for everything from taking customer orders to jotting down the grocery list. That can be painful sometimes for people with arthritis or repetitive stress injuries and those in professions that require a lot of writing by hand. Using [...]

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Do Fountain Pens Improve Childrens’ Handwriting?

August 12, 2009

In the right hands, fountain pens produce some beautiful lettering, so it stands to reason that giving your child a fountain pen might be the right way to neaten the little one’s Ps and Qs.
And it very well might. Then again, you might end up spending money on an expensive pen for naught.

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