Italix Parson's Essential Fountain Pen

I had issues with mine. I had someone look at the nib who said it was fine. They suggested trying a wet ink. I used a De Atramentis ink, and it wrote well. I have KWZ Honey in it, and it writes well.

It needs to be there, jujst like other pens have marks. (Except for Parker - they only needed an ARROW clip - Italix is a small one man shop, he makes the best nibs in the world, and sadly, he, Peter Ford is retiring this year. Sad.

F00lw0lf, I've been writing with Italics for 50 years, I always expected there'd be a learning curve, the positioning of the nib in the hand has to be within a very small tolerance of "perfect" but what you get in return is delicious wide descenders, hairline horizontals, and a gorgeous look that will get your handwriting noticed. I had horrible writing thaI myself could not even read, it was due to a physical deformity, but I reasoned that if the monks in the middle ages could write Italic script all day, I could at least make mine readable. it worked - the Italic nib forces to you to write in a certain way, only that way otherwise, you'll tear the paper. See https://handwritingsuccess.com/why-italic/