Which Lamy Rollerball Would You Get?

[l4yercak3]

I have a space pen as my ballpen and another regular one from a bookstore with my name on it. Then of course I have a few fountain pens. I however do not have a rollerball pen.. Is there anything innovative from lamy with regards to rollerballs? I think there was a capless one?

[OakIris]

I don't have a Lamy roller ball pen but if I were to buy one I would have to get the Lamy 2000 so that I would have the complete set - already have the 2000 fountain pen, mechanical pencil and ball point.

 

I believe several of the Lamy roller ball models are capless - the Tipo, Swift and Dialog. Here is a pretty thorough review of the Dialog 2: Lamy Dialog 2

 

I am sure that someone with actual experience with Lamy roller ball pens will respond to your post as well.

 

Holly

[kaissa]

I have a space pen as my ballpen and another regular one from a bookstore with my name on it. Then of course I have a few fountain pens. I however do not have a rollerball pen.. Is there anything innovative from lamy with regards to rollerballs? I think there was a capless one?

 

The 2 most innovative ideas regarding rollerballs are the capless refills and usage of FP ink cartridges. Neither came from Lamy but Lamy has a capless refill M66. Dialog 2, Swift and Tipo are the models that use it. I have a Cross C-series rollerball that is without a cap and uses the regular Cross refills so I guess that makes every Cross a capless model.

 

The usage of FP ink cartridges belongs to Schmidt IIRC. Visconti was the first to manufacture it with its Rembrandt Ecoroller and Kaweco Sport has a model. I am sure there are more models to this list.

 

Regards,

Edited June 28, 2012 by kaissa

[l4yercak3]

I have a space pen as my ballpen and another regular one from a bookstore with my name on it. Then of course I have a few fountain pens. I however do not have a rollerball pen.. Is there anything innovative from lamy with regards to rollerballs? I think there was a capless one?

 

The 2 most innovative ideas regarding rollerballs are the capless refills and usage of FP ink cartridges. Neither came from Lamy but Lamy has a capless refill M66. Dialog 2, Swift and Tipo are the models that use it. I have a Cross C-series rollerball that is without a cap and uses the regular Cross refills so I guess that makes every Cross a capless model.

 

The usage of FP ink cartridges belongs to Schmidt IIRC. Visconti was the first to manufacture it with its Rembrandt Ecoroller and Kaweco Sport has a model. I am sure there are more models to this list.

 

Regards,

 

Which ones are your favorite among the dialog 2, swift, and tipo? What size are they?

[kaissa]

I however do not have a rollerball pen.. Is there anything innovative from lamy with regards to rollerballs? I think there was a capless one?

Neither came from Lamy but Lamy has a capless refill M66. Dialog 2, Swift and Tipo are the models that use it.

 

Which ones are your favorite among the dialog 2, swift, and tipo? What size are they?

 

I don't own anyone of them. There is a review of Swift here, OakIris has given the link for a Dialog 2 review and we have some Tipo owners here as well. If I were you I would go for the Dialog 2 just because it does not look like a ballpoint like the other two, but it is much more expensive than them. It depends on your taste as all 3 will write the same

 

Regards,

Edited June 29, 2012 by kaissa

[l4yercak3]

I quite like the swift but I will checkout the dialog in person..

[BillZ]

If you already have FPs that use Int. Short cartridges, the Kaweco Sport is a nice little pen. I like it because it's a good pocket pen. Plus it's inexpensive so if something happens to it(lost or stolen)

you aren't out many $s.

[bphollin]

I like the 2000 for daily writing. It is the same size as the fountain pen.

 

The Tipo is cute and rides in my field bag, but just doesn't work for me as a daily use pen.

[bernardo]

I have this Safari Tintenroller and am pretty satisfied with it.

[Tom Aquinas]

I like Lamy products, they are functional, practical and good value. I am prejudiced against using roller balls finding them uneconomical when compared to fountain pens and ball pens.I have only ever had two, a jade green lacquer P75 and a silver CdA Madison. The P75 was stolen at work and i did not replace it. My prejudice aside , you can hardly go wrong with a Lamy product.

[pencrazed]

I think your best bet for the money is the Lamy Swift. I tried all of the other Lamy roller balls at my local stores and none of them were smooth as the Lamy Swift - which is butter smooth. However, Lamy's roller ball catridges tend to run out quite swiftly compared to their ball points though.

[bugmd]

I have a space pen as my ballpen and another regular one from a bookstore with my name on it. Then of course I have a few fountain pens. I however do not have a rollerball pen.. Is there anything innovative from lamy with regards to rollerballs? I think there was a capless one?

 

While I enjoy my Lamy products I do not use any of the roller balls that I have from them. Their refills are too expensive and I have yet to find a suitable alternative that did not require a little engineering on my part.

[51ISH]

I think your best bet for the money is the Lamy Swift. I tried all of the other Lamy roller balls at my local stores and none of them were smooth as the Lamy Swift - which is butter smooth. However, Lamy's roller ball catridges tend to run out quite swiftly compared to their ball points though.

 

 

I have a space pen as my ballpen and another regular one from a bookstore with my name on it. Then of course I have a few fountain pens. I however do not have a rollerball pen.. Is there anything innovative from lamy with regards to rollerballs? I think there was a capless one?

 

While I enjoy my Lamy products I do not use any of the roller balls that I have from them. Their refills are too expensive and I have yet to find a suitable alternative that did not require a little engineering on my part.

 

This is a very good point...this was covered on another thread recently....there is currently no choice other than a Lamy replacement refill...

 

My recommendation would be a Retro 51 Rollerball....loads of colour options....around £20 and upwards...now supplied with a schmidt rollerball.....but even more important....it can be replaced with any standard Parker BP type refill

loads of alternatives in gel and or BP's at reasonable prices eg Schmidt do the P900 (BP)(as well as others) which sells for just over £1 So if you find the Rollerball expensive to run... (which I did) you still have a pen you can convert and use