Editing The Pen Addict 395/transcript (section)

== New Product Discussion ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. Right. So I'll hopefully be able to get one in Baltimore pen show. If they're even available, then they might be sold out. So, all right, let's hit a few more things about new products. Not quite at the level of the Platinum Curie DOS, but to some people it might be super important and it's the Uniball one gel ink pen. So just like the Curie DOS fascinates me as being a new product item, a new type of product at a different price point that looks like it'll do well. This is what Uni's doing here is introducing a new ink technology, which they seem to be, they seem to do that more than any of the other big gel and ballpoint pen manufacturers like Pilot and Pentel and Zebra. So they mess around with their inks more, right? They've always had their gel inks and they've had their Jetstream ink has been a different lineup and they always been technologically advanced with security features or archival properties. And now they're making this one ink that's saying it's going to be a gel and it's going to be a super rich dark ink that dries fast, right? So they're taking what they already have and making it better. And they have all this, we'll put this paper in the show notes for you to check out if you're interested, even remotely interested in this. I'm really interested in this. Like this is right up my alley.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My friend Blue Magister sent me this link to the product documentation when I tweeted out the original press release. And yeah, like I'm excited about this. One, it's a new barrel shape, right? They've kind of leaned into this weird clip design. It's kind of a lamy-ish clip design, I would say. On their pens, they did it with the recent Uniball Jetstream, the 0.28 one that I don't have yet either, but I'll be trying to get that. I'll definitely want to try these out when they come out. It's a retractable pen. It's going to come in, what is this? I don't know, 20 colors or so. And it'll come in 0.38 millimeter, 0.5 millimeter. And this is what I do. Like this is my favorite type of thing. Like as much as we talk about all these fountain pens and crazy expensive stuff, I love just like your basic good quality gel pen, obviously. Yeah. So I'm interested to see like the comparisons that they make. I'm assuming they're comparing it to their current gel ink. And the difference is stark. And I'm a little bit curious at that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, we have another chart here, Brad. But unfortunately, it's an image. So it's in Japanese. So I can't read it. But there's like two. Yeah, there's a pie chart. Well, no, not the pie chart. There's like a bar graph down below. And it's got like this arrow. Oh, I see it. Oh, right. There's some great charts in the show notes today. You've got to go check out these articles.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It just has a big arrow swoop to like convert your eyes to whatever the chart really means, probably.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. What do you think that could even be? I don't know. At the darkness level?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They've got like 0.1, 0.2, 0.3. And it's like, oh, it means it's more. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So the 0.25 is the old version and the new one is 0.3. So it's 0.5 darker, I'm guessing. What do you think?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know, man.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We'll have to figure that out. I'll get my friend to Mr. Blue Magister to translate that chart for me. But I'm just interested in the their comparison pictures are very stark. Right. And they already make a nice dark black ink. All the companies that do this make nice dark inks. Right. Platinum, Pentel. I'm sorry. Pilot, Pentel, Uniball, and Zebra all make really good dark inks. Can we get 0.5 darker? We're going to find out, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' How black?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, just how black can it be?

'''Myke Hurley:''' The thing that threw me off about that is like, okay, if they're getting into this richness technology, right? Whatever they're trying to do to make the colors richer and darker, like there's no way it's going to dry faster. But then they talk specifically about it drying faster as well. So we'll see. We'll see.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And more resistant to bleeding.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Which gel already is in general anyway. Right. Yeah. I mean, that's one of its primary features is it's not going to feather or bleed unless the paper is just horrible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, maybe it's like the thicker paper resists. I don't know. Maybe it somehow resists. Sorry, the thicker ink resists worse paper. I don't know. We'll see.