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

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the amount of time he wasted filling his fountain pen and cleaning up ink smudges. The nib of the pen often scratched or tore the newsprint he was editing. As a newspaper man, Ladislas Biro knew how important it was The Bic Biro is a ballpoint pen approximately 145mm long and diameter of 9mm. The transparent barrel is hexagonal. It is made from polystyrene

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In January 1954 Parker Pens introduced it's first ballpoint pen called "The Jotter". It had many qualities that put it above its rivals but the most important was that it worked.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. Other people had thought of it before, but it was down to him, working with his brother – who was a good chemist – and getting the texture of the ink right,” says Curtin. “It is very like printer’s ink, and it doesn’t smudge.”

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Kids can safely use them at school, no ink splatters on school uniform, no blobs of ink on text books. The simple design is classless, no one would be embarassed to be seen writing with a Bic. It is the pen of the people.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.” Did you know that with a BIC® Cristal® pen that only weighs 5.8 g, you could write for 3km? Along with several other BIC® writing and colouring instruments the BIC® Cristal® pen received the NF Environment Mark (NF 400) which rewards the best products in terms of quality and environmental impact.

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Once collected, the writing instruments are cleaned and separated by material type. The fibres and plastics are recycled into raw formats that manufacturers use to make new products.service the upscale markets of fountain pens and expensive ballpoints and there many rivals at the cheaper end of the market, however, BIC Biro's cannot be rivalled for their price and functionality. They are consistently reliable and worth sold on the first day. However there were still problems with the design and demand slumped and so did the price, dropping to only 19 cents. It looked as though the ballpoint pen was doomed to failure. 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.

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Simply adding fountain pen ink to a ballpoint pen was not the solution, however. The ink itself needed to be rethought. In 1935 Ladislas Biro and his brother Georg (who was a chemist) set about designing a new pen. The instigator was Ladislas, who was editor of a small newspaper at that time, and was fed up with There are no direct costs to you for running a public drop-off point. Many collectors spend nothing other than their time.it worked at high altitudes which a fountain pen did not, and it did not have to be refilled frequently. The US State Department asked several US pen manufacturers to develop a similar pen. In an why I believe it should become a style icon. Someone got there before me, the Bic Cristal pen forms part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Context