Rotring

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Rotring is a German company based in Hamburg. It was established in 1928 and introduced the first fountain pen without a conventional nib, called the "Tiku" or "Inkograph". Revolutionary in its time, the Tiku was a worldwide success.

By 1953 the Rotring Rapidograph became the prototypical technical pen of its age. Its new technology virtually replaced the ruling pen and greatly simplified technical drawing.

The advent in the 1990s of computer-aided design (CAD) saw the partial demise of the technical drawing pen. To combat this, Rotring diversified its range of graphic pens, pencils and markers.

In 1998 Rotring were taken over by Sanford, an American company specialising in graphic products and part of Newell Rubbermaid Inc.

In 2005 Rotring stopped shipping their product to the United States.