We offer a wide range of oil-based and gel tips

Our Products

The most traditional and popular style of tip that has been in use for over 60 years.

  • Essem offers a modern take on this traditional tip with a wide variety of shapes, sizes and materials to match all needs, with more than 200 models to choose from
  • Suitable for use with standard oil-based inks.
  • Suitable for almost all types of writing styles, from fine Asian script to heavy-set Romanic
  • Available in brass, brass nickel-plated, nickel silver and stainless steel materials
  • Stainless steel and tungsten carbide materials are used for the ball
  • Ball diameter can range from 0.40 to 1.60mm or higher as per your requirement
  • Used with low-viscosity inks, resulting in a smooth, gel-like writing feel
  • More suited to south Asian and East Asian writing needs and styles
  • Made primarily from nickel silver with a tungsten carbide ball
  • Ball diameter available in 0.40, 0.50, 0.60, 0.70, 0.80, 1.00 mm sizes
  • Gel tips are a recent development Japan, designed specifically with East Asian writing styles in mind
  • Water-based gel inks in combination with gel tips allow for a wide variety of beautiful, brilliant color shades, intensity and appearance for individual and stylized expressions
  • Designed for use in stick and retractable type (spring-gel tips) gel pens
  • Available primarily in stainless steel as well as nickel silver
  • Ball diameter from 0.40 to 1.00mm

We provide refills for most gel and ballpoint pens to suit a wide variety of inks and tips, manufactured according to your specifications

Gel tips

Typically enable a wide variety of brilliant color shades and intensity

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Oil-based ballpoint tips

The most traditional and popular style of tip that has been in use for over 60 years

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Oil-based gel tips

Used with low-viscosity inks, resulting in a smooth and gel-like writing feel

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Refills

Manufactured according to your specifications to suit a wide variety of inks and tip

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Technical Information

Wire

We offer a wide range of wires made of brass, nickel, stainless steel, and other materials

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Balls

Tungsten carbide and stainless steel balls for obi/obg tips

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Quality

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Packaging

Depending upon tip model, 10,000 or 20,000 tips are put in one plastic polythene bag

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