PILOT VBall Liquid Ink Rolling Ball Stick Pens, Extra Fine Point, Black Ink, 12-Pack (35200)

They arrived fast & complete. I had ordered a box of green pens from a diff seller on Amazon a couple of wks back. Only 8 was in the box. What a rip off. Im happy to share that these are a set of dozen ea box as promised. I write everything down & when making alterations a day or two later, I always use a diff color to stay organize.

Enjoy writing with this pen.

Absolutely love this pen!!

Ink is vibrant and smooth. Only knock is the ink bleeds through standard paper.

These pens. Their flow and smoothness is incomparable.

I bought a box of these pens on Amazon about a month ago along with a couple other types of Pilot blue-ink pens. My initial impression after using a couple of each is that the new V-ball is excellent to start. The writing quality is smooth and skip-free. This is important to me. Ink flow is crisp and appropriate. Im a physician and my use is primarily in charting on patients. The ink allows you to write quickly and there has been no smudging thus far. However, on both of the V-balls Ive used, after about a week, the ink overflows into the cap. Not enough to get on clothing, but enough to get ink all over your hands during use. The pen still writes fine once you wipe off the excess ink from the pen tip, but its enough to make me want to pick up another pen instead. This may be because I tend to take my pens home with me (in my coat pocket) and its hot outside and in the car. Im not sure. But it is an annoyance. **update March 8, 2012** After using several more of these pens, each one has had the same outcome: they write GREAT to start, then start bleeding. I suspect that this is because I carry the pens in my pocket and write throughout the day. Im not sure if the body heat does it or if Im sometimes putting the pens in my pocket tip-down, or what, but half-way through the box theyve all done the same thing. It has gotten a little less problematic at the end of the pens life. But you will have to clean out the end of the cap to see this. Alcohol swabs work well for this purpose. I will go through a pen in roughly 2-3 weeks usually and I have yet to make it all the way through one of these without having to throw it away due to concern over my clothing. And blue fingers become normal during use.

Ive been a professional writer for 26 years, and for my money, this is the best pen Ive ever used. Skip free and so extremely fluid, its more like writing with a brush than a pen. And from a design perspective, the V Ball is simple, attractive, functional and very comfortable - a solid performer. Show me any Waterman or Mont Blanc that even comes close, and Ill buy it. But in the interim, at less than two bucks a pop, the Pilot V Ball sets the gold standard for everything a great pen should be. UPDATE: A tragic single flaw. Apparently these pens must be pressurized (probably explains why they flow so smoothly). As a result, DO NOT TAKE THESE ON AN AIRPLANE. Again, just speculating, but it seems that they most blow a seal . . . resulting in a leaky mess thats tough to impossible to clean. White shirts and frilly blouses - be afraid. Be very afraid. ;-) Despite that - I stand by every letter in my first two paragraphs. Absolutely fabulous pens.

These have been my favorite pens for almost 15 years. I absolutely love them - the fine point and they are easy to write without much pressure.

It writes smoothly, with no grittyness that are present in many other pens. The colour is bold and the writing point just about glides over the paper when writing/drawing. I would recommend this pen to anyone, as everyone who uses one of my vball pilot pens love it.

What you see is what you receive. Mercifully unchanged from my previous batch but for the larger letters printed on the barrel. I avoided the cheaper style with the plastic clip, because I believe that a plastic clip is too brittle to bend repeatedly compared to a metal clip. Outstanding ink flow with minimal pressure. Top quality tip construction: precise and consistent. Not available in my city, so thank you Amazon.