The forme is mounted on a printing press, a thin coating of viscous ink is applied and impressions made on paper under great pressure in the press.
However, successful gravity feed required much thinner, viscous ink and a much larger barrel to avoid constant refilling.
The internal chamber is filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at its tip during use by the rolling action of a small sphere.
A squeegee was then used to work a viscous ink around the screen, passing through the mesh in the bare parts of the stencil and onto the paper.
The galaxy showed like varicolored dyes poured into viscous ink, red dye and yellow and blue and green, but mostly red.
Immediately a great cloud of viscous, stringy ink rolled out of the cleft towards his face.
It looked for all the world like gardener's potting soil mixed with viscous ink.
Space Pens combine a more viscous ink with a pressurized ink reservoir which forces the ink toward the point.
In either instance, a thick layer of typically viscous ink is deposited on the roll.
A ballpoint pen dispenses viscous oil-based ink by rolling a small hard sphere, usually 0.7-1.2 mm and made of brass, steel or tungsten carbide.