You've got a meeting in ten minutes and the whiteboard marker on the shelf is a dried-out stub. Or it's one of those that reeks of solvent every time someone uncaps it in a small staff room. This one doesn't do either. The Staedtler Compact 341 writes clean, dries fast, and you can leave it sitting uncapped on the board between sessions. It'll still pull a crisp line when you come back. Low odour means no one's rubbing their nose. The built-in wiper wipes your old scribbles off in two strokes so you're not hunting for a cloth. Six in a wallet — hand one to each person and stop the passing-the-pen ritual