Ball Pen Blog – Industry News, Customization Tips & Product Guides

Welcome to our Ball Pen Blog, where we share the latest updates on ballpoint pen manufacturing, customization techniques, market trends, and promotional pen ideas. Whether you’re a supplier, retailer, or brand owner, find useful insights to help you grow your business with quality custom ball pens.
Luxury hexagonal brass rollerball pen with full electroplated gold and custom logo option

Plastic vs. Metal Ball Pens: Which Is Better for Your Project?

  Let’s be honest—choosing the perfect pen for your brand isn’t as simple as it seems. You may think, “It’s just a pen,” but once you dive into the world of promotional writing tools, you’ll quickly realize that plastic vs. metal ball pens is a decision that actually matters. Each type has its own personality,…

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Custom 0.5mm Gel Ballpoint Pen with Sporty Metal Design and Logo Printing

How Custom Pen Packaging Enhances Your Brand Value

When it comes to promotional pens, most companies focus on the pen itself — the material, ink, and logo. However, there’s one element that can significantly enhance your brand value but is often overlooked: custom pen packaging. Whether you’re handing out pens at a trade show or sending them as corporate gifts, presentation matters. Packaging…

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Custom Smooth Plastic Ballpoint Pen for Professional Use

The Complete Manufacturing Process of a Custom Ballpoint Pen

Ballpoint pens are everyday tools we often take for granted — but behind each custom pen lies a highly precise, multi-step manufacturing process. For companies ordering OEM or wholesale custom pens, understanding this process not only helps in quality control but also ensures smoother collaboration with the manufacturer. In this article, we provide a comprehensive…

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Custom Rubber Coated Soft Touch Ball Pen with Logo

Custom Logo Printing Techniques for Ball Pens: A Complete Guide

A custom logo ballpoint pen is more than just a writing instrument — it’s a powerful marketing tool. Whether you’re using it for promotional giveaways, corporate gifting, or event branding, the printing method you choose has a major impact on your brand visibility, image, and durability of the logo. In this guide, we break down…

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Bulk Custom Logo Plastic Ball Pens for Advertising and Promotions

How to Choose the Right Ballpoint Pen for Your Brand Promotion

When it comes to brand promotion, few tools are as effective, affordable, and practical as the custom ballpoint pen. These small yet powerful promotional items can spread your brand message far and wide — in offices, events, trade shows, and everyday life. But with hundreds of pen styles and customization options available, how do you…

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Use attention

1. Is the pencil lead poisonous? In fact, the pencil lead is not toxic, lead is toxic, and the main raw material for making the pencil lead is graphite and clay, so the pencil lead is non-toxic. The main components of the pencil refill are graphite and clay. Graphite is a scaly solid with a…

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Pencil pen logo

The hardness mark of the pencil lead is generally indicated by “H” for a hard pencil, “B” for a soft pencil, “HB” for a soft and hard pencil, and “F” for a pencil with a hardness between HB and H. Arrangement (from soft to hard) 9B, 8B, 7B, 6B, 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, B, HB,…

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Pencil making

Divided into two parts: pencil cap and pencil rod: the appearance of the pencil cap decoration material is mainly polyester material, and the manufacturing process can be divided into mold making, offset printing, assembly and other processes to complete it. The appearance of pencil pencil decoration materials mainly includes nitrocellulose pencil paint, printing ink, electrochemical…

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Use and maintenance

New pen to hand Generally, the pen can be used normally after it is applied to the water. It is not necessary to take a new blisters as the individual has said. Of course, sometimes it is inevitable that you will encounter a situation where the pen does not have water or the tip of…

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Selection method

When we use the pen, some parameters are not visible. But we can still use some techniques to get the pen good or bad. Let’s take the best-selling pen on the market as an example. A. The tip of the pen can pull out the pen holder and move the pen tip on the white…

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Pen type

There are many types and models of pens. According to the composition of the pen nib, it can be divided into three types: gold pen, gold pen, and ink pen pen. Gold pen The nib is made of gold alloy, the nib is soft, the elasticity is good, and the hand feels comfortable. However, the…

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Gel pen structure

There are two main types: 1. Plug-in gel pen The cap-type gel pens come with a cap. The cap can change various shapes to make the pen of the pen look more beautiful; more importantly, it can protect the pen. 2. Press the 中 type gel pen Pressing the 中-type gel pen is quite different…

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Ink color and place of use

One. Ink color 1.Basic color neutral pen The most commonly used ink colors are red, blue and black. 2. Special color gel pen In fact, the water chalk and color ink we use every day belong to the category of gel pens. These gel pens are suitable for paintings, cards, decorations, etc., making our writing…

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Gel pen type

1.Bullet type Looking closely at the tip of this gel pen, we will find that they are like a bullet. In the manufacturing process, we cut an original rod into a complete tip by metal cutting. The bullet type is suitable for making thicker pens. The market is more than 0.5MM, and the thickest can…

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Pen stain removal method

1. Dip the stains into warm water (40 ° C) with benzene or wash with phenolphthalein, then wash with detergent, rinse with clean water (warm water). 2. Soak the stain with cold water, gently wipe with carbon tetrachloride or acetone, then wash with detergent, rinse with warm water. 3. when the smudge is deep, you…

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Ballpoint pen use common sense

1. The pen is more durable than the general pen, but if it is used improperly, it can’t be written. This is mainly because the dry solid ink sticks around the steel ball to hinder the ink from flowing out. Ink is a viscous oil which is prepared by using sesame oil, synthetic pine nut…

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Ballpoint pen structure principle

The writing principle of the ballpoint pen mainly uses the ball to directly contact the paper surface during writing to generate friction, so that the ball rolls in the ball seat and brings out the ink or ink in the pen core to achieve the purpose of writing. A ballpoint pen is a pen that…

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How to wash off the traces of the ballpoint pen?

  The traces of the ballpoint pen can be washed out in the following ways: 1, benzene. Immerse the clothes with ballpoint pens in warm water of 40 degrees for a while, then scrub them carefully with cotton balls dipped in benzene. After scrubbing, wash them with common detergents such as washing powder and laundry…

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Specification of Rollerball Refill

  The pictures above are 0.38 pin-and-tube pen core and 0.5 bullet pen core respectively. In fact, the difference between needle-and-tube type and bullet type is the thickness of the core. Because the bullet type is self-contained, it can be applied to a very thick core, the thickest can be more than 1.2, which is…

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