LAMY Balloon Fountain Pen Giveaway

It’s Big Balloon Drop Week™ around the world, so why not give away a LAMY Balloon Fountain Pen? This giveaway is for the Asian market exclusive LAMY Balloon Fountain Pen in Blue, with an Extra Fine Steel nib. Read the rules below, and enter away!

Posted on December 30, 2025 by Brad Dowdy and filed under Giveaways.

Writech Dual Color Multi Pen Review

Writech pens have been making their way around the stationery blogosphere over the past few years, including a couple of reviews by Sarah right here on The Pen Addict. Since I hadn’t participated yet, I grabbed a couple of their Dual Color Multi Pens to try out, picking some bright colors, as opposed to the darker Vintage & Black set that Sarah reviewed.

If I’m going to use a two-color multi pen, I want to see some brightness on the page, and that’s what I got with Hot Pink & Grape and Sky Blue and Steal Blue (yes, that’s how they spell it, and who am I to change it?)

Writech Dual Color Multi Pen — *Technically refillable, but no refills available from Writech’s site. Also, these refills are oval in shape, so nothing else is going to be able to slot in the barrel properly.*

Aesthetically speaking, I like the look of the Dual Color. As the name dictates, they are a two-cartridge multi pen, which keeps the barrel narrower than 3, 4, and 5 cartridge multi pens, for obvious reasons. They are colorful, not flashy, mimicking the colors found inside the barrel on the outside. The White clip offers a great contrast with its over-the-top design, and is flanked by the matching color refill buttons.

When it comes to the writing experience, the 0.5 mm gel ink refills are average at best. The colors are nice, but the feel isn’t as good as nearly every other gel ink pen I use regularly. They aren’t scratchy, but the ink doesn’t exactly glide from the tip. I felt like I had to press harder to get the right line width and color, if that makes sense at all.

Out of the four colors in my two pens, Steal Blue was the clear performance winner. I didn’t have to push it as much as Grape, which was noticeably worse every time I compared the two. Sky Blue was close to Grape, in that it did not effortlessly glide across the page. Hot Pink was closer to Steal Blue in feel, but didn’t get all the way there.

The colors themselves are great, and I would be fine using these as a marking or notation pen, not a regular writer. At just over $2.00 per pen, they are inexpensive enough to get use situationally, but I can’t recommend them for more than that. That’s too bad, because I think they look fantastic.

I’m still interested in trying another type of Writech pen, the Clictek Liner Pen, which is a retractable fineliner that looks right up my alley. Just don’t ask me to review the Clictek Retractable Fountain Pen, because that trapdoor design is a non-starter. Sometimes you have to make a stand!

(JetPens provided this product at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)

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Posted on December 29, 2025 by Brad Dowdy and filed under Writech, Multi Pen, Pen Reviews.

Misfill, Donuts Are Good Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

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— Donuts are good (José Naranja)

— Diamine Inkvent 2025 Summary (Writing at Large)

— Pilot Iroshizuku Rikka (Inkcredible Colours)

— Inkvent 2025 // The Final Five Days (Weirdoforest Pens)

— Video Games (Olive Octopus)

— 25 Days of Dupes 2025 – Week 4 (Rachel’s Reflections)

— Inkmas Day 12: Ana’s Favorite Inks for 2025 (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— Year in Review: What happened with my 2025 Stationery intentions? (A Gathering of Curiosities)

— Stationery Advent Calendar: Accordion Kraft Notebook, Swedish Pen, Kneadable Eraser (Take Note)

— Stationery Loves in 2025 (Dime Novel Raven)

— New Year, Old Planner: Nava Memoria 1992 (Notebook Stories)