Six pens, one paper, one loser

A plotter is a brutal test rig: it can't ease off the pressure and it never rests. Anything that fades after twenty minutes is empty after six hours.

The 0.3 mm pigment pen survived. Gel pens started beautifully, then began streaking in the second hour. The fibre of mould-made paper simply drinks them.

The lesson is dull but important: the paper picks the pen, not the other way round.