Customer Reviews

The utility of these things is great. Simple to use, bright, and erasable - what more could you ask for as a college student with rented books?

I bought a multi-pack of these from a local office supply store and unfortunately after only about 2 weeks of use they're all drying up! I will use one and after about 100 pages of various highlighting tasks, it will no longer be visible because it has dried up. Start using a new one, and another 100 pages in, it too has become too light to see.

I thought perhaps extended use in my hand had faded the ink due to heat, so I popped it in the freezer overnight then let it thaw out. No go, still unable to use it because it leaves so little ink on the page. These have simply been stored on their sides on my work table, not in a jar with the ink away from the tips.

Suffice to say, this is a disappointment.

Nice for drawing, but, in my oppinion, is too dark for highlighting anything in pencil or fine pen. It erases very well, and is smoohth.

These are so amazing! I love them so much. I use them in my bible and they are the only highlighters to not bleed through. THey also erase very well ( just make sure its dried) they are great to use at school when you might need to erase somthing! They work great !!!

I always like to color-code things in my planner - but sometimes I'm only half paying attention because I'm in a hurry. I love these highlighters because I can erase them if I accidentally use the wrong color. My only complaint is that it is a little harder to re-highlight something that has been previously erased with the FriXion highlighter.

I bought the green, orange, and blue. I love this highlighter sooo much. If you like those crazy bright colors, then don't buy this. I like the softer duller colors. Also you have to keep your eraser part clean or else when you erase it, it will smudge. Soo MAKE SURE YOU DON"T LET SOMEONE USE THE ERASER TO ERASE PENCIL....that happened to me..

I've tried the orange, green and blue. They all erase surprisingly well The orange and green work well for me, but the blue is too dark. However, with all these highlighters I've noticed the following: If I highlight over pencil and then erase, the highlighter disappears, but I can't erase the pencil marks that were underneath.

this was a pretty good highlighter while it lasted. all of my friends were amazed at its eraseability. but, IT DRIED OUT WITHIN 6 MONTHS! i got it last september for school, and it dried out before april. i was extremely dissapointed with pilot. the same thing happened to me with the pink and yellow ones i got. but for the price i guess it was worth it.

I love this color, and use this highlighter daily, but I'm just not sure about the eraser. I've only tried it on a hardcover text book, and on these particular pages the eraser leaves behind a sort of weird grey stain where the highlighting was. It's definitely an improvement over NO erasing, but it doesn't make the book look like new by any stretch.

I bought this based on the reviews, but don't like it. It does erase well, but it has a drawback: the highlighter covers up and dulls the ink of the text you're highlighting, rather than making it pop out. If you erase the highlighting, the text stands out again, so the problem is that the yellow sits on top of the ink, making the black text look gray.

To the reviewer above -- the highlighter does erase very cleanly and thoroughly, but you have to use the built-in eraser on the tip of the pencil, not a pencil eraser. All you're doing with the pencil tip is bringing the heat-sensitive ink to a high enough temperature. So a hairdryer would probably do the trick more easily if you're erasing a whole chapter or something.

I purchased the yellow, blue, and green version of this highlighter. They are amazing. They do erase perfectly. I have had zero trouble erasing anything after I highlight it. If i had to give one small tiny negative thing about this highlighter I would say that the yellow one is a bit darker than most regular highlighters. I prefer one that is very bright yellow. The other colors are perfect, and you should definitely purchase a few of these.

When i first checked the highlighter section and saw "erasable highlighter" i thought it was a fake but bought it anyways cause i wanted to see how it worked! When i got it i tried it right away and erased and OMG was i surprised! It Erased!!! i showed it to my friends one by one surprisingly and every time they'd just stare at me cause i'd draw and erase! they took the pen and inspected it every time lol. It's an awesome pen and as a student very useful for highlighting and in case if you highlight too much you can always erase!

I've been using these on my textbooks, and they work great on most printed materials. I'd suggest testing erasing them on the text first as it will smear the words on some. If it does smear the text, use a normal eraser instead (I'd recommend one of those erasers that are in pen-like barrels, not a big bulky one, so you can be more precise). Overall, I love these highlighters and will get them again once they run out. =]

The utility of these things is great. Simple to use, bright, and erasable - what more could you ask for as a college student with rented books?

I bought a multi-pack of these from a local office supply store and unfortunately after only about 2 weeks of use they're all drying up! I will use one and after about 100 pages of various highlighting tasks, it will no longer be visible because it has dried up. Start using a new one, and another 100 pages in, it too has become too light to see.

I thought perhaps extended use in my hand had faded the ink due to heat, so I popped it in the freezer overnight then let it thaw out. No go, still unable to use it because it leaves so little ink on the page. These have simply been stored on their sides on my work table, not in a jar with the ink away from the tips.

Suffice to say, this is a disappointment.

it's not really erase- it's more like smudge it out.. and u can actually do the trick with ur body temp warm fingers.
the highlight does cover the inks--make black look gray.
takes a while to dry up.
and the last part, using the eraser tip will smudge inks, especially pencil.

1 star for fast delivery. 1 star for the good erase.

They erase well but, I find that if you highlight pencil and try to erase, it smudges the pencil! The blue is also very dark and the ink doesn't come out very well...

I bought the green, orange, and blue. I love this highlighter sooo much. If you like those crazy bright colors, then don't buy this. I like the softer duller colors. Also you have to keep your eraser part clean or else when you erase it, it will smudge.

this is a pretty cool highlighter, its very convenient for marking in books and then being able to erase them, but when you erase it sometimes it leaves odd grey/blackish marks. also the big problem about this highlighter is that it dried up waay too fast. i bought it in September for school, and it dried up by february.

PLEEEEEEASE restock Jetpens!

Seriously, this is the best highlighter by far for me. In fact, with these around, I think using a different kind of highlighter would be settling for second-best :-) Here's what sets these apart from other highlighters, even other erasable ones:

1) the erasing function actually does what it says. Not only does it not leave a trace (even on my usual writing paper, cream-colored index cards), it allows for repeated erasing and re-writing (which lets you change colors - great for color coding stuff that is changeable, eg prioritizing a to-do list; it's not just for mistakes). Other erasables work like the classic fountain pen ink eraser: you can only erase once.

2) good build: the materials don't feel cheap and brittle, they're sturdy, including the clip. Best of all, the eraser is really more of a rubber stopper, which doesn't wear as you erase like with many other erasable pens: so you can be sure it won't wear down to nothing ages before the ink runs out in the highlighter.

3) the shape: it's like a pen, rather than the classic short and flat highlighter. Sure Jetpens only has the pen type (only the best for Jetpens customers i guess), but those other ones are overall more common. The pen style makes it more comfortable to hold, and easier to fit in a pencil case: these are about the same bulk as a 'good' pen (eg fountain pen) so they are perfect if you like a roll/wrap-style pencil case or the kind that turns into a pen pot, but still have to carry highlighters.

4) The ink: the colors are distinct (with other pens, sometimes the green and yellow look a bit similar, same with pink/orange & blue/purple - not so here), and they are vivid enough to highlight, but not excessively loud to the point of making what's written underneath hard to discern, even with the darkest colors (eg purple). Best of all, they work fine with inkjet and fountain pen ink, no smudges at all - another rarity.

I hope I've sung the praises of these things enough that Jetpens will see their way to restocking these asap. I really wanted a second set to keep in my ready-to-go pencil case so i don't have to keep transferring them from my desktop holder and risk forgetting them :-/

These DO erase cleanly from both inkjet and laser-printed texts.

Like another reviewer, I was initially disappointed by the performance of these highlighters; when I tried to erase the highlighter ink from inkjet or laser-printed papers, it badly smeared the text's ink, resulting in very noticeable grey smudges around the previously highlighted area.

However, I later realized that this smudging did not occur AT ALL if I gave the highlighter ink ample time (half a minute or so) to dry before erasing. While this wait may seem like a turn-off to some, I think that the advantage these types of highlighters definitely outweighs any potential annoyance at having to resist the urge to erase immediately.

Unlike many other erasable highlighters (such as the office max brand, which employs a second clear ink to erase the initial highlighter ink), the FriXion highlighters allow you to re-highlight the same area after erasing. For people like me who happen to have the unfortunate combination of being both indecisive and obsessive about my color coding, the ability to highlight, erase, re-highlight, erase, etc... is invaluable.

It might also be worth noting that other 'regular' erasers (such as Hinodewashi erasers sold on this site) can sometimes give better erasing results than the FriXion erasers, depending on the type of paper/ink being highlighted.

I do agree that the ink "sits on top" of the text you highlight, as another reviewer pointed out, but I don't find this to be significantly detracting from their overall functionality.

Another strange quirk I noticed is that, while they do erase cleanly from pencil (HB lead), any pencil marks that get covered by the highlighter ink become un-erasable from then on, even if/after the highlighter ink is erased and regardless of what type of eraser is used. Again, not a big deal to me, but it might be to others. (This result is obviously not true for marks made by other FriXion pens, so I might suggest using an erasable pen instead of a pencil if you want to be able to erase the written text after highlighting it).

The highlighter is a bit dark, but what do you expect? It's purple! The erasing works very well, but be wary of writing over ink that you've recently used: it will smear.

Oh dear. I really wanted these to work out! Unfortunately, the ink is WAY too dark and, while it does erase completely, it smudges my laser-printer book's print so badly, I can't read the text. I tested it on several printer works and it's all the same. The color goes away, but the black ink rubs off and smudges terribly. Can't use these at all. Bummer.

The utility of these things is great. Simple to use, bright, and erasable - what more could you ask for as a college student with rented books?

I bought a multi-pack of these from a local office supply store and unfortunately after only about 2 weeks of use they're all drying up! I will use one and after about 100 pages of various highlighting tasks, it will no longer be visible because it has dried up. Start using a new one, and another 100 pages in, it too has become too light to see.

I thought perhaps extended use in my hand had faded the ink due to heat, so I popped it in the freezer overnight then let it thaw out. No go, still unable to use it because it leaves so little ink on the page. These have simply been stored on their sides on my work table, not in a jar with the ink away from the tips.

Suffice to say, this is a disappointment.

The utility of these things is great. Simple to use, bright, and erasable - what more could you ask for as a college student with rented books?

I bought a multi-pack of these from a local office supply store and unfortunately after only about 2 weeks of use they're all drying up! I will use one and after about 100 pages of various highlighting tasks, it will no longer be visible because it has dried up. Start using a new one, and another 100 pages in, it too has become too light to see.

I thought perhaps extended use in my hand had faded the ink due to heat, so I popped it in the freezer overnight then let it thaw out. No go, still unable to use it because it leaves so little ink on the page. These have simply been stored on their sides on my work table, not in a jar with the ink away from the tips.

Suffice to say, this is a disappointment.

The utility of these things is great. Simple to use, bright, and erasable - what more could you ask for as a college student with rented books?

I bought a multi-pack of these from a local office supply store and unfortunately after only about 2 weeks of use they're all drying up! I will use one and after about 100 pages of various highlighting tasks, it will no longer be visible because it has dried up. Start using a new one, and another 100 pages in, it too has become too light to see.

I thought perhaps extended use in my hand had faded the ink due to heat, so I popped it in the freezer overnight then let it thaw out. No go, still unable to use it because it leaves so little ink on the page. These have simply been stored on their sides on my work table, not in a jar with the ink away from the tips.

Suffice to say, this is a disappointment.

Works Great!
But on some text/book: Erasing might cause a small smudge