Customer Reviews

I bought this pen along with the Pilot Hi Tec-c .25mm. This is the best pen I have ever used, I bought 10 refills the very next week. As a student I have tons of uses for this pen, not only is it great for taking smooth, crisp notes. If I need to sqeeze something else in, the super fine tip can handle it. Amazing.

Like the last poster I really just bought this for the $25 free shipping. But it's actually pretty good. It's actually a very impressive pen.

This pen is awesome. It is fine point enough you can write tiny, but it is sturdy and comfortable enough to use on a regular basis. I had just gotten it to get to the 25 dollar free shipping, but I am going to get more the next time around. It has a pretty decent grip, isn't tiny like the pentel slicci (though i have small hands i thought i would break that in half). You can have the fine point and the precision without writing with something tiny or overly "pretty."

I bought one of these, along with one of the same model but with the 0.18 mm ball, admittedly out of curiosity - could truly usable pens be made with a point that fine? In my opinion, the answer in both cases is yes. You may need to adjust your writing style to be satisfied with these - a lighter touch, a minimal adjustment to the angle of pen to paper, careful attention to the pressure being applied - but these are noteworthy writing instruments. Thank you, JetPens, for making these available.

I adored these pens...at first. I absolutely love the 0.18 mm size and the lines it produces, but unfortunately the pens would stop working halfway through the ink supply. Every single time. I could not for the life of me figure out how to get the ink flowing again. It didn't matter which color. I only used one up completely out of the set 10 I purchased (8 in the set and 2 additional in black ink).

I'm obsessed with "thin" when it comes to writing. And these pens gave me a good few months before bailing on me. I've never gone back to 0.18 mm sizes as I ended up attributing the ink flow (or lack thereof) to the size.

The critiques of this pen above are accurate, it's a one-of-a-kind. So fine that it's initially difficult to get acclimated. I'm not impressed with the ink color, intensity, or flow, and won't purchase them again. It's looks like a fine hard pencil on paper, and perhaps in time I might find a need, but unlikely.

There is a little period of 'adjustment' when using a pen like this with such a fine point, especially if one is accustomed to pens that produce bolder and thicker lines. The lines are so fine than what most are accustomed to seeing that some people think at first that the pen is not writing when in fact, it is.

Until this pen was introduced to the market, I was left using fine-tip graphic pens to write that had far weaker tips because most ball-point pens did not have a fine enough tip for my writing. The tip of this pen holds up to considerable pressure but if one uses too much and writes extremely fast, there is a chance one will tear some types of paper because of its strong, needle-like tip. There are some in a given batch that write better than others: out of the sixty-or so I have used, I estimate that about three to four of them had a severe problem with ink flow after little use but, so far, all have worked right out of the box. A rare few will only write when held at a certain angle but this is usually after an incident in which the pen had been left cold and unused for a prolonged period of time or used to write on certain kinds of register receipts that bleed any pen dry of ink or white-out. (Ad nauseam, I highly recommend one not writing on white-out of any kind unless you want to render the pen ineffective. I only use the tape variant and every single time I have tried to write on it gingerly and with extreme care using this pen, the white-out changed the ink flow and, in some cases, outright ruined the pen.)

If one does not delve into mad bouts of ham-fisted, hyper-scribbling and is prone to micrographia, this pen is a wonderful recommendation-- I say this after using this pen for nearly seven years now. :-)

I love the feel of the pen but I am not a fan of black. I am lucky that I bought several of the blue since somebody decided to discontinue the blue pens. I would also prefer a green over the red since 5% of all males are red color-blind making red not a good general choice for marking up documents.

This pen is easy on the hands, and can write in the smallest places. I work where you have to write on these small specimen labels. I can fit the entire name of the specimen on the label. Haven't tried the rice test yet, but I'm sure it'll work. Keep these pens coming.

This pen is a pretty spectacular shade of orange - I also have it in the 0.18mm and 0.7mm points. It really is the perfect shade for underlining and note-taking in books - because it's so easy to see without strain.

This pen is wonderful. Unlike the black version, the red ink tends to flow out consistently and smoothly, although this does mean that it's not quite as good for "sketching" as the black pen. Its line is much thinner than the red 0.25mm Hi-Tec-C pen, but still smooth. The design is also very nice, and comfortable. I can also highly recommend the orange version of this pen, which has a very pretty ink colour; unfortunately, it's not sold by Jetpens anymore.

Thanks all for posting reviews - entire site full of helpful reviews.
After testing out all I ordered, I found 95% of all the reviews (on products I ordered) to be very correct.
This particular pen, takes my breath away - OMG !!!
I just wouldn't recommend it for everyday use as other reviewer reported.
I can use it every other day!
Truly the sharpest, cleanest ink line possible. Many uses.
AND I tested it with several types of paper, all showed very little change with water applied. Testing water plus abrasion - the paper fibers rolled off before the ink budged. So I'd certainly say it is permanent on paper.

I really like this pen. I am lefty and this leaves a clean, crisp line on the paper without leaving any my hand as I work my way across the page. I write quick notes during meetings and this is a great. It can feel a little scratchy so it is probably not good for people that write long letters. That is not my writing style so I will definitely buy some more. I just wish they made some in green for editing purposes.

This pen is fantastic - but it's not for everyday writing. It works best on moleskin notebooks and I find it works wonderfully for putting notations in the margins of my Bible. Also great for other areas that may be small and need to be written in. I have so many kids and things I have to keep up with, I use this pen for my pocket calendar. I can get four or five activities on one day that way. It flows nicely, doesn't clog up, and after awhile if it seems like it's not flowing well, check the ink level.

These .18mm pens are perfect for the Kokuyo Campus High Grade MIO paper notebooks! The paper is so smooth that these delicate pens feel right at home.

Please bring in the refill for BLUE color!
I love this pen but it's too much if I will have to buy a new pen everytime I finsihed the ink!

Great pen, a little scratchy - especially when writing fast.

fits in the Pilot Hi-Tec-C Cavalier Executive Gel Pens

pages and pages of flawless bible notes. this pen is my standard for in my bible.

This is a terrific pen.

awful.........pen

I agree with the previous reviewer; it's a great pen, but not for everyday writing. That being said, the pen is great when you need to write very small. It drags quite a bit, but that is to be expected of a tip this small. The ink flow is pretty good after writing a few letters or so.

these pens stunk! the ink ran out so fast! i had them for about 4 days and the ink was dried.

I was excited about this pen, and am sorry to say that I was really disappointed with it. Perhaps I got a defective pen, but I get metal, and not ink; and I can't seem to get a consistent thickness when writing.

It's the first time I've been disappointed with a Jetpens purchase, and hopefully my last.

I guess I had high hopes for these pens being a loyal uni-ball customer for many years. As an Engineer I need a pen capable of writing very fine. I ordered 2 boxes for our Engineering department and within a day everyone officially hates them, so this is not just my opinion. Out of the box every pen writes different. Some write very well and others are extremely light and really lacking ink flow. I left the bad ones in the box and handed out the good ones. They initally wrote very well, but after 5 minutes of writing the ink flow began to severly skip and soon after there was nothing but a very faint line. After several minutes of scribbling and trying to restore the flow I gave up and switched to a new one. Once again the same results. I think uni-ball needs to do some serious work on their ink formula before these are any good at all. Overall we are extremely dissapointed with these pens and I will probably return the whole lot.