uni-ball Jetstream 101 Ballpoint Pens Medium Point, 1.0mm, Black, 12 Pack

Quality instrument

Best pens ever! I was looking for the retractable ones, but came across these. I love them! The ink is so smooth and I like the stick style of the pen.

I am really picky about pens and office supplies in general. These pens look like the cheap, ugly, generic pens that would write in a scratchy way, like a pen you might grab out of a cup in an office to fill out a form. Don't let appearances fool you! They are actually the smoothest writing pens I've ever used. I found them during law school, ten years ago, when I took notes by hand and needed my pen to keep up with how quickly I needed to write to get down all the details. This pen is the only one that delivered perfectly because of how smoothly it writes - no scratchiness or skipping to slow me down! And you know how sometimes you buy a pen but then you lose it or just start using a different pen instead, so you have a bunch of pens that still have ink until eventually they're dried out and you just toss them? Not these! I buy these and then I actually use them until they have run completely out of ink, which is extremely satisfying. And have you ever been writing quickly and had a pen flip right out of your hands (maybe that's just me)? The outside of the pen is also a smooth, soft, rubbery material that lets you get a good grip, too! And did I mention the price? They are SUCH a good value! I've been loyal to these pens for ten years and I'll keep being loyal to them until they stop being made. If that sad, unfortunate, nightmare of a day ever does come, I will buy every single one I can find to try to stock up as long as possible.

oddly enough. i collect pens, i have hundreds and hundreds. These write perfectly and I write a lot at work with multiple colors. i have tried nearly every brand and type of pen. these are better than anything you will ever write with. Solid, smooth lines always, whether writing on one sheet directly on a desk or on a stack of 20 pages. (only people who write a lot will understand the difference, but it's important) Basically only the papermate inkjoy 100 series (removable cap style) comes close to this.

Good price & good pens

Very light and doesn’t require much pressure to make the ink show. The ink is highly pigmented/saturated, so the color appears very blue and doesn’t look faded or washed out like other blue pens. It blends so effortlessly without bleeding through pages, and dries almost instantly so you don’t have to worry about smudges. Writing with it is quick and easy, as the pen glides exactly where you want it to go without having to apply much force or meeting much resistance. This ball-point pen has all of the benefits of a gel pen (doesn’t require force, glides with little to no resistance, very colorful/highly pigmented ink) without any of the downsides of gel pens (doesn’t bleed through pages, dries quickly, ink doesn’t smear). In other words, this pen is perfect! At first I thought it might not hold up against its “Jetstream” predecessor (as shown in the photo with the blue post-it note comparing the writing of the two Uni-Ball Jetstream pens against one another; where the predecessor is on the bottom while the successor [i.e. this pen] is on the top). Surprisingly this pen is actually better and easier to use and handle than its predecessor. You can also see the superior ink quality as shown in the photo of the writing sample against the yellow post-it note. The only potential downside—at least for me personally—is the relative weight of the pen, as this pen is much more lightweight than many other pens I’m used to using (just as a matter of personal preference, I like a slightly heavier pen). But overall, this is a great pen all around. I know it’s a bit expensive for a box of pens, but I must say, the quality far exceeds the price. I’d highly recommend these to anyone who’s particular about their pens. You won’t be disappointed!