Uni-Ball – Kuru Toga

Uni Kuru Toga

The World’s First Self-Sharpening Pencil

The trouble with using a mechanical pencil is that the tip of the lead changes shape as you write, thickening from a fine point to a chisel edge. Words lose their crisp shape and lines get thicker, which is particularly problematic for engineers and others that need uniform lines. The Kuru Toga by Uni-ball is the first mechanical pencil to offer a solution.

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The Pentel Breast Cancer Campaign

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A Good Cause: The Pentel/Breast Cancer Campaign Partnership

Pentel is up to something good involving breast cancer research, and we want to take a minute to tell you about it.

Did you know that female breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in the UK? As many as 44,000 women learn they have breast cancer each year, and more than 12,000 die from the disease, according to a report from the Office for National Statistics.

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Do Fountain Pens Improve Children’s Handwriting?

Do Fountain Pens Improve Childrens Handwriting

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. But can using a fountain pen really improve your children’s handwriting?

It very well might be the case and there is at least one Junior School that is convinced of the benefits of introducing children to fountain pens at a very young age. Also when it comes to doing exams if your child has neat legible handwriting then this can only be a good thing in the eyes of an examiner. They must get very frustrated trying to decipher something resembling spiders crawl when they have hundreds of papers to mark.

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Pentel Clic Eraser

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Pentel Clic Eraser – The Eraser that Looks Like a Pen

 

The Clic Eraser from Pentel is a cool gadget that belongs in the desk of every person who does any sort of writing at all.

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