Editing The Pen Addict 6/transcript (section)

== Coleto Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, that's, yeah, that, for the Coleto, that's why it's probably number one because it's fully customizable. You buy an empty barrel, okay? So, you decide whether you want a three cartridge, a four cartridge, or a five cartridge barrel. Oh, man. And not only that. That's just going to happen. Yeah. So, and it's got, you know, these barrels are lightweight plastic, most of them. They have started to upgrade their barrel. So, there's probably four or five different barrel styles for the Coleto, ranging from just a base kind of cheap-feeling plastic up to kind of a higher-grade thick plastic with a nice rubber grip and some things like that. But what you do is you buy the barrel, okay? And then you say, I want this color cartridge, this color cartridge, this color cartridge, and this color cartridge. And it's at least ten base colors you can choose from, and then I think there might be a few more than that. I haven't counted recently. So, your basics are there, black, blue, and red. And then you can, there's blue, black, purple, lime green, light blue, golden yellow, orange, pink. I mean, just the list goes on and on and on. So, yeah, that's why the Coleto is so popular because it's fully customizable. It's not coming off the store shelf like the Bic 4 color where you buy the Bic and it comes with the four basic ballpoint colors.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, where can you get, I mean, because I assume you can't just pick this up everywhere.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no, I mean, honestly, I've, you know, jet pins, obviously. And then, you know, local people that are lucky enough to live in big cities. A lot of the Japanese bookstores will carry this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like I said, the real, people love the high-tech C so much. The Coleto is kind of a no-brainer for multi-pins for them. And the kicker is the full customization. It's not coming preloaded with ink. You get to pick that out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' See, I know, I can see in the notes that you, I mean, because you always share notes for me, like, prior to us recording. I don't even know why we're going to bother talking about anything of it. You need to really sell me on these ones.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Well, there's at least two more I want to cover. So, well, I'll do the important ones because the Coleto, I think, is number one in usability and price, you know, because some of these can get expensive. And these refills, you know, you can buy just the barrel itself, the cheapest barrel for like $3 or $4. Then once you start getting, you know, $2 a refill, you're talking, it's a $10 outlay for a pen if you think about it at minimum. Well, if you are a heavy user of this, the refills can get expensive because you can run through them pretty quickly. Gel link, you know, it's the Pilot High-Tech C gel link pen. And gel link pens, just their refills just don't last as long by nature. And that's across all gel links, not just the Pilot High-Tech C.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, along those lines of the High-Tech C is that, I think that product did so well and got so popular and Uniball didn't have anything like that. So, they came out with a product called the Uni Style Fit. And it has taken a lot of the good things about the Pilot High-Tech C in that there's lots of different barrel options. Some would say the barrels are nicer, the base level barrels, you know, a little higher quality. Then they also have upgraded barrels. I think there's even a metal barrel now. I'll have to double check if it's aluminum or what the exact construction is of that one. But it's also fully customizable to where you just buy an empty barrel and you buy your ink cartridges separately. What's cool about the Style Fit and the Colito is that you're also not stuck with like the 0.5 millimeter cartridges. Okay. You can buy 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 cartridges for the High-Tech C and you can mix and match in the same barrel. For the Uni Style Fit, you can buy their 0.28, 0.38 and 0.5 cartridges. What the Uni Style Fit has also done is created a Jetstream cartridge that you can put in there. So you can have a gel ink cartridge, a Jetstream ballpoint cartridge, and a pencil cartridge in there if you want. So they've kind of...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Can you put pencil cartridges in that... Do they come with the Colito on the...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, they just started carrying them or manufacturing them in the past year or so. And that's one I do not... I don't have a pencil cartridge for either the Colito or the Style Fit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a shame you can't get a Kuru Togar in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. That would be cool. That would be cool. That would be back to one of the super wide bodies if they try to jam that mechanism in there. But yeah, that would be cool. But it was great that they thought enough of the Jetstream to say, hey, we're going to make a separate ink cartridge for that. So that is really neat. So those, the Colito and the Uni Style Fit are similar. Just that's kind of a personal preference thing. You know, some people love the Hitec C and are not a big fan of the Uni Signo ink and vice versa. You know, one's a needle tip in the Colito. The Style Fit uses the Signo conical tips. So it gets down to a personal preference. They're really... Those are the two direct competitors.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Now, this is where you're going to get in trouble.

'''Michael Hurley:''' Okay.