Customer Reviews

Just as I stated in one of my earlier reviews, I also bought one of these (Sky Blue body) at Maido Stationary in San Francisco's Japan Town while I was visiting home this Christmas. At the store they allow you to write on some paper and test out the pen before you purchase and I was in LOOOOOVEEE! So smooth and it writes so thin. I love using this pen for my holiday cards I send to people and the letters I use to write my penpals. Just ordered this pen in Apricot Orange and Lavender. This is the pen that directed me to this website when I realized I needed more than one.

I was hoping to fall in love with this pen, like so many others have before me. I love the flow and look of gel pens (for a long time, I would only use the Pilot G7 ones) but ultimately, I left it for the comfortable smoothness of ballpoints (regular ol' BIC disposable ones). So when I heard about the Jetstream, essentially the best of both worlds, I immediately wanted a few for myself.

I typically like very fine points, but now I realize that it comes with a price. While 0.5mm seems pretty standard, it just feels too scratchy to write on anything less than very quality paper. I love the body of the 0.5mm Jetstreams though, so I'll probably just order 0.7mm refills and use the same body. It's a very cute color and the color on screen seems fairly accurate to me. I ended up reverting back to my BIC ones, but am currently using the 0.7mm refills in my multi-pen, and they are GREAT. So much smoother and it is exactly what I wanted the 0.5mm to be. While I feel like I can be a little bit more sloppy with a 0.7mm tip, it sure beats the previous skipping and scratching of the 0.5mm.

This pen is wonderful. It was so nice to find a ballpoint pen with a 0.5mm tip. The grip at the end is comfortable for my fingers, the pen writes smoothly, the ink doesn't blob or smear, and the lines are as fine as I could hope for. I got my order quickly too. Thank you Uni-ball for making the pen that I needed and thank you JetPens for having it!

This pen is great! It writes SO smoothly, and has a nice fine (.5 mm) point. The apricot color is very cute, too. This will be the only pen I use from now on! (Hope I don't lose it)

This pen is fanastic. The color of the ink is wonderful, but the smoothness is just perfect. I really enjoy writing when I use this pen, and I have had no problems with skipping or catching. Wonderful pen, I plan on getting more colors!

The signature Jetstream ink is so rich and dark, it's almost like a gel pen but it's a ballpoint, which I LOVE!! The colors are so cute too.

HOWEVER...

It skips sooo much, it's driving me crazy. I keep having to retrace over all the skipping whenever I write notes. The 1.0 Jetstream RT I got elsewhere isn't as bad as this 0.5 but there is skipping, nonetheless.

I really really wanted to like these pens. I really did. All I can say is, good thing I only bought one.

2 stars for the dark gel-like ink and cute barrel.

I love the Uniball Jetstream line. They are truly my favorite pens. This was my first one in the 0.5 mm. At first I thought it was a bit too fine for me, but the more I write with it the more I love it. I plan to order more in the other body colors soon!

Smoothness: okay
Precision: Good for 0.5 mm
weight: light
Grip feeling: okay
Cushion: solid

Overall impression: Okay, for better comfort but less precise pen I recommend Pilot G-Knock Retractable Gel Ink Pen - 0.38 mm

Precious color, smooth thin dark line, flawless. Cute, good quality, affordable. I'm in love.

I absolutely love the Jetstream line of pens! I was introduced to Jetstream after picking up a promotional pen at a scientific conference. I was immediately impressed with how smoothly it wrote, and how dark the resulting line was. You get used to how nicely these write, but then if you switch to another pen you can immediately see how much fainter other pens are. These pens always write, down to the last drop of ink. After using the promotional pen for a while I was so impressed, I went online to find the exact pen and that's how I found Jetpens!

The Jetstream Basic Series are my favorites for everyday writing. The rubber grip is on the hard side but comfortable, and the size is just right for me. I use this pen, and the red pen for corrections, on a daily basis. In fact, I bought a whole bunch of them in black, blue and red and gave them out to my family so that they could try them out as well.

A quick note to anybody that may experience skipping. If you write on plasticized paper at some point, I believe that this can gum up the small ball at the end of the pen. I had this happen once, and had to switched in a new refill because the pen became unreliable.

Excellent Pen! I sadly had to reorder it as mine went missing, and I only hope the new owner appreciates it as much as I did. I was already in love with the Jetstream ink, but the marriage with Alpha Gel makes it that much better. I can't stress enough how much I love it!

What can be said, it's the Uni Jetstream 0.7 mm in Orange! I have 2 other colors of the Rubber Body Series but this one is nice because nobody else at work has them. I've turned a few people onto the wonders of the Jetstream! This pen is smooth and writes nice and dark with no skipping or white spaces. I'm a lefty and I've never had it smear on me. At least for me the ink supply is lasting a long time. I've been going pretty heavy on this one's refill for a week and I've only managed to use about 30% of it. And I've had no issues as the ink supply runs down.

What a great pen! The ink flows nicely, leaving a solid dark line. Very lightweight and comfortable in the hand. I do a lot of writing for my job, and this pen has become a new favorite in my arsenal of pens. The price can't be beat - it won't be the end of the world if it "walks" off my desk (although I will be bummed until I get my hands on another one). This pen works better than pens I spent way too much on, and now just sit in my "pretty to look at but just don't work that great" collection. We all have some of those heartbreakers, don't we?
I would love to see this offered in other bright colors. I'd snap them up! Thank you for making a great, affordable pen!

My aunt bought me these pens from Japan and I was OBSESSED with these pens! I luckily found it through this website. These pens write very smoothly, almost as if words were flowing through the page. It does not smear or leave any smudges on my hand. I can never switch bank to another pen.

I have found that sometimes the ink does not come out very consistently, I'm not sure if it's the manufacturing of the pen or the ink itself.

I just received mine and I love it ^^ Here\'s some pros/cons of the pen:

Pros:
- Jetstream = super nice for a ballpoint pen
- alpha gel grip (it takes 1-2 days to \"break in\" but once it\'s broken in, the grip will feel like the grip from the alpha gel original series.same texture and squish
- refillable: i definitely wanted a pen which i could refill. why pay for a pen body if you can\'t refill it ~shrug~ anyways...the refills cost $ and reviews say that the blue refill sucks soooo we\'ll see. I bought an extra black refill just in case.
- METAL! xD feels good. the end/body of the pen is skinnier than expected.

Cons:
- Grip\'s a dirt/fuzz magnet more so than the other grips. (see below for a fuzz rating xD) I put a touch of hand cream on the grip and rubbed it in. I do this for all of my alpha gel grips because it helps to break the grip in faster and keeps the grip slick enough so that dirt/fuzz doesn\'t cling to it.
- it\'s a ballpoint....but one of the better ones

Side Notes:
- The Zebra B2A1 is a nice full metal (duel color) ballpoint as well. I actually prefer to use the zebra to write on binder paper over the uni jetstream.
- This being said...the $$ really?.... -____- whatever
- I also bought the full-rubber grip jetstream and in my opinion, from a visual standpoint, the rubber jetstream looks a ton sicker than the alpha gel one. It\'s not how the pen looks laying on a table...it\'s how it looks in your hand when you\'re writing w/it.

This is the best pen i have ever owned! It always runs so smoothly. The only times it isn't smooth is on cheap paper, when there's only 1-2 sheets between the pen tip and the desk, but even then the overall flow is mostly smooth as can be.

What I really love is the precision. I used this of Organic Chemistry, where on the tests we have to draw little chemical structures in small answer spaces. I was able to get everything down that I needed to only because of how thin this pen writes, and how precisely it dries on the paper. I could give it a higher recommendation! I only wish they had a compact version. Then I'd be set for good.

Whatever Uniball did to get the Jetstream, they should do more of it. This pen is spectacular! It's got a really good, balanced weight and sits well in my hand. Oh, and being a Jetstream, it writes like a dream!

An amazing pen, It's the only one I use to write notes with! The colour looks amazing and ink flows smoother than any other pen I own.

I was extremely surprised at how wonderful this pen writes. When I ordered this pen, despite all the good reviews, I was a little wary due to the not-so-elaborate look of the pen. To my surprise, the pen worked wonderfully! Just as others have said, this pen is extremely smooth, even when writing on just a thin piece of paper on a wood desk. The ink flows nicely and the pen does not skip. Although the grip isn't really a grip at all, it's quite comfortable to hold. I was also a little fearful of the 0.7mm size because I prefer thin, 0.5mm pens most of the time, but the lines were very close to that of the 0.5 Jetstream I ordered. The ink color is quite appealing as well. Most other blue pens do tend to have the light, faded blue color, but this one has a very dark and bold blue, not quite the dark blue of a gel ink or liquid pen [I don't like the latter very much]. For anyone looking for a simple, light, smooth blue pen, this is a great pen to get.

I have an insane number of ballpoint, gel, and fountain pens at my desk, but this one has become my hands-down favorite for almost everything (I still prefer pigment markers for some things). I'm stuffing my cabinets with refills, because I really don't ever want to run out of this miraculous ink. It's incredibly smooth -- truly frictionless yet still dries fast -- and even my husband, who writes at a strange hand angle that causes every other pen in the universe to leave globs of ink everywhere, is thrilled with it.

I've just ordered two more of the rubber body series -- they're fatter but not too fat, and easier to find by touch in my always-cluttered bags.

My only wish: that they came in some nicer colors (robin's egg blue? saffron yellow-orange?).

It's an excellent pen. It dispenses ink smoothly, has a nice grip, and hardly has any skipping.

You can't go wrong with this one -- a reliable pen and ergonomic too!

Coming from a lefty, this is the best pen I've ever used. Writes smooth. Dries quick. No smearing.

This is the pen i always carry around. Always.
The ink is bold and waterproof and glides so smooth.

writes more smoothly than the 0.5 counterpart without being significantly thicker