WASHINGTON — Disposable pens used to be things you wanted to dispose of by throwing them across the room. They skipped. They had to be muscled across the page. They leaked sticky ink that smeared good ...

There are three inevitabilities we will experience during our time on this mortal coil: we are born, we will die, and sometime in between, we will use a BIC Cristal pen. The company claims to have ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...

All of this started when I noticed that Staples usually had the highest ink and toner prices of the retailers I checked. Intrigued, I picked several other new printers from a variety of manufacturers ...