A ballpoint pen administers a thick oil-based ink through a little hard circle, or ball, which turns over the

surface being composed on. The ball is held hostage in an attachment at the tip of the pen with one half
uncovered and the other half drenched in ink from the pen's supply. At the point when the ball pivots, it
moves the ink - which wets the ball - from the repository to the outside surface. The ball is normally
under a millimeter in breadth and made of metal, steel, or tungsten carbide.[7] The ink, because of its
high thickness, doesn't saturate through paper and doesn't leave the tip of the pen by fine activity.
Thusly, an absolute minimum measure of ink is administered, with the outcome that the composing
dries immediately and ink endures longer than it does in different sorts of pen. Ballpoint pens are solid,
flexible and vigorous, and are accessible for an exceptionally extensive variety of costs. They have
supplanted wellspring pens as the most widely recognized apparatus for ordinary composition.

A gel pen works much the same way to a ballpoint pen, in that it apportions ink utilizing a moving ball
held in the composing tip. Nonetheless, dissimilar to oil-based ballpoint pen ink, gel pen ink comprises of
a water-based gel[8] that has a color suspended in it. Since the ink is thick and obscure, it appears more
obviously on dull or smooth surfaces than the commonplace inks utilized in ballpoint or felt tip pens. Gel
pens can be utilized for some sorts of composition and outline. Since the gel medium disposes of the
requirements of a dissolvable color, many new tones are made conceivable, as well as a few unique
kinds of ink; gel pens are accessible in a large number of energetic or immersed colors, in pastel tones,
in neon tones, in metallic tones, in sparkle inks, in shine in obscurity ink, etc.

A rollerball pen is a pen that administers a water-based ink through a ball tip like that of a ballpoint pen.
In that capacity, gel pens may be considered a subcategory of rollerball pens; nonetheless, because of
the broad information and utilization of the term 'gel pen', 'rollerball' is practically speaking regularly
saved for pens which utilize fluid ink.[9] The lower thickness of rollerball ink contrasted with oil-based
ballpoint pen ink severally affects the pen's exhibition. Since the ink streams all the more effectively and
is all the more effortlessly consumed into paper, more ink is administered overall. This changes the
composing experience by greasing up the movement of the tip over the paper. It likewise brings about a
strong and continuous line, since the dissemination of the ink through the paper fills little holes that
could somehow be left by the ball point. Contrasted with ballpoint pens, which administer a more
modest measure of more thick ink, the composition by a rollerball pen takes more time to dry on the
page and can leak through slight paper, for example, to become noticeable on the contrary side. At the
point when the tip of a rollerball pen is held against paper, ink leaves the tip consistently by hairlike
activity similarly as would happen with a wellspring pen. This can prompt ink blotchs or spreads. The
rollerball pen was at first intended to consolidate the comfort of a ballpoint pen with the smooth "wet
ink" impact of a wellspring pen. Refillable rollerball pens have as of late opened up; these by and large
use cartridges of wellspring pen ink.