Platinum Carbon Desk Pen. This is an inexpensive plastic desk pen made by Platinum for its Carbon Black ink. I bought this, and a similar desk pen made by Sailor, years ago for drawing. I decided to take them out again this week for writing.
The Platinum desk pen has a nice, smooth nib, and I like the pen’s light weight, long length and good balance. It can take a Platinum converter if you want to use bottled ink. It’s a good pen to write with, for me. Platinum describes the nib as “super fine.” It may be slightly thinner than my Pilot Prera fine nib with Pilot black ink, but I really think the two are comparable.
Platinum Carbon ink is marked safe for fountain pens, but I have had some difficulties with pigment inks over the years, so I honestly prefer to use them in dedicated cheaper pens, like this one. Carbon Black is a waterproof and lightproof pigment-based ink. It’s reputed to be a very dark black ink, but in this pen I don’t get that. It writes smoothly and dries quickly. This combination easily could be an everyday user.
Fountain Pen Follies 
Wow, I didn’t know there were waterproof, lightproof inks made by anyone besides Noodler’s! that’s great to know – one for the wishlist!
The pen is perfect for it, easy to snag out of a pencil cup to write down an address on an envelope, and much prettier with all the glossy black and gold than many other desk pens 🙂
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