Link from Fountain Pen Docking Station

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Fountain Pen Docking Station
Cleans and refills your pen.

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When you're not using your fountain pen you put it into the docking station on your desk. The station checks the ink level in the pen and fills it up when it's low.

Every night, at a programmable point during the wee small hours, the ink flushed through the pen a few times to clean it, and the pen is refilled ready for a new day.

Every few weeks (or at the push of a button) the pen is more thoroughly cleaned. The ink is drained and a cleaning solution run through the pen. A small amount of ink is then flushed through the pen (to wash out the cleaning solution) and the pen is refilled.

Never run out of ink again or have your pen crust up on you because you've neglected it. Pens would have to be specially designed to work with the docking station and would take cartridges for when you're away from home.

st3f, Jan 23 2006

You call a Cross expensive? http://www.worldlux...collection=&filter=
Now this is expensive... [bristolz, Jan 23 2006]

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This would be good for expensive Cross pens, but I'd just as soon stick 20-for-a-dollar Bic pens. Buying new ink cartridges is expensive (ever bought one for a printer?). I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just a little too expensive for me. I'm sure it would eventually pay for itself for those who write a lot with expensive pens. Bun for a good, if expensive, idea.+

21 Quest, Jan 23 2006

Would be good for rapidographs, too. If anyone still uses them.

DrCurry, Jan 23 2006

My girl would *love* this. She has a bit of a pen fetish.

wagster, Jan 23 2006

Excellent. USB powered of course, with an on-screen display of your pen status (when docked) and the level of ink in the dock.

hippo, Jan 23 2006

How about the dock having a little ultrasonic cleansing action built in, too?

bristolz, Jan 23 2006

hippo, - it could possibly do this by weighing the pen empty, and comparing it to the current weight.

Ian Tindale, Jan 23 2006

And as the adverts for those "super" fountain pens state, it can be stabbed through a soft drinks can - as I am wont to do.