Artline

Artline 444 white marker (fine) is awful! – I wanted to use it for invitations. I followed the instructions to the letter and maintained a steady hold on the pen, but still it would eject blobs of ink/paint and ruin invitations. I tried, on the destroyed invitations, different pen positions, but nothing helped - the ink was inconsistent in the way it flowed, leaving people's names a… Read more

mixture of scratchy and fine to a thick mess.

It was a new pen, purchased purely for the invitation writing, but I had to go and source a silver pen instead. Sooo disappointed :-(

No longer made to last? – How long do pens last these days? Once upon a time a biros would last for weeks, but not in today’s world! At $3- $5, each contains minimal ink, and given the thinner inserts is an absolute rip off! Have tried six different types of Artlines in a matter of a ten weeks finding most pens even have a thinner insert inside a thicker one so they look… Read more

as they hold more than they do. Is becoming an expensive proposition, a box of a dozen pens costing $30-50 more if purchased individually, can spend up to $100 or more dollars a year just on biros and that is for light usage? Begs the question as to how many biros students use a year these days?

Someone has obviously decided this is a good way to make money! Also not good for the environment in tossing away the plastic every time one runs out!

I complained to the company and although they kindly sent a handful of complimentary pens, these lasted no time either! The inner tube contents being all of a millimetre or maybe two wide and the pens seemingly now shorter in length would be hard pressed to contain 1/8 of a teaspoon of ink. We thought printer cartridges were bad but pens seem to be the new profit making tool?