Customer Reviews

uni-ball Jetstream Bold Point Stick Roller Ball Pens, 4 Colored Ink Pens (33932PP)

5 star:		(24)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Before the jetstream, I was a dedicated G2 user. However, the jetstream is the perfect hybrid between a gel pen and a ball point. The jetstream has the responsiveness and feel of a ball point, while providing effortless seemless and opaque black ink like a gel. I love it.

I am a bit of a pen connoisseur and I admit to owning pens worth a couple of hundred dollars, yet I find myself reaching for this pen to the exclusion of the others.

Why? Three reasons:

1. Bold yet fine, controllable stroke. I can write legibly nearly as small as I want and the ink stands out from the paper. I believe even those with failing eyesight would find this pen helpful.

2. Smooth writing. This pen glides across any paper that I've tried it on, even the more inhospitable. I mostly keyboard anymore so I feel it if I write for a long time but not with this pen. It is a pleasure to use.

3. It never skips. Most rollerballs have a nice bold line but they skip and smear. Ballpoint ink can skip and it doesn't provide the clean line of a rollerball. This "hybrid" combines the strengths of both.

Keep your expensive pens for show and flourish. Use this pen daily for practical, professional results. I hope eventually that uni-ball introduces a dressier version using this ink. If they do, I'll never stray.

Uni-Ball's Jetstream is my favorite pen for journaling. It effortlessly glides and dark line with no skips. The ink dries INSTANTLY. Both the bold 1.0 and the regular 0.7 write wonderfully. The 0.7 point actually seems finer than what you might think. Go buy a pack! You'll love it!!

It sounds like a stupid thing to read customer reviews on... after all, it's not like you're buying an HDTV or something fairly expensive. Nonetheless... these things warrant the stellar praise they've received here.

The pens feel solid in your hand, they write smooth with a nice size stroke and without needing to press too hard. They just feel right.

Highly recommended!

I'm always looking for quality pens and on a whim I purchased the Jetstream. It was an instant favorite. The ink runs smooth and doesn't clump or break up like other pens. The 0.7mm has a nice line, not too thick, not too thin. The color is also good - the black is black and the blue has a nice brightness to it so you can tell it's blue. I just got some of the retractable ones for my birthday (that's how much I love these pens!) and so far they are as good as the original.

I received these pens as a birthday gift this year. I was a bit apprehensive about using them since I love gel-ink. However, when I began writing with these pens, it seemed as the pens danced on paper as I wrote. I LOVE THE PENS!

Sanford/Uni-ball's Jetstream series pens are THE BEST pens I have ever written with. EVER. I had been searching YEARS for the perfect pen (since high school) and even went to Japan to find one (well, I was there visiting friends but still, I spent many hours in Tokyo stores testing pens!). At first the Pilot Hi-Tec-C pens filled the void, but only because their points were smaller than .5 mm and I had never seen that in the States. I have small handwriting and like my pen-strokes neat and cute. Then a few months ago I came across a Jetstream pen and it was like wow, where have you been all my life. The ink is absolutely smooth and doesn't smudge or soak into the fibers of the paper. In fact it almost seems to hug the paper. The Jetstream series is categorized as ballpoint but really it should be in the gel ink category. It is almost like gel ink version 2.0.

The Pilot G-2 pens are absolutely archaic next to Jetstream. Signo, Sanford's other pen series, are good but not quite perfect. I have been using a Jetstream pen for four straight months now (I seriously do not even touch other pens) and will never go back to regular ballpoint or all those other supposedly smooth-writing gel pens. And forget about fine point fountain ink pens -- they are just ghastly to write with, especially if you're like me and hate when ink shows up on the back side of the paper when you're trying to write double-sided notes. The Jetstream pen solves all those annoying little problems.

A professor once borrowed my Jetstream and forgot to return it, and I went to great lengths to get it back. This pen is that good.

The bold-point Uni-Ball Jetstream pens are, to quote Tina, "simply the best." As a teacher, I write a lot - in my journal, on kids' papers, everywhere. And these have never let me down. I like black ink best overall, but even the blue stays vibrant until the pen runs out. A caveat, however: the click-style Uni-Balls have wimped out early. As the ink starts to run low, a white line appears in the middle of whatever I write. However, this has NOT happened to me when I use this model number. Just the best, period.

I'm a weird pen lover. I love smooth pens. These are the smoothest pens I have EVER used. They're so amazing I am willing to pay the price. I like both the fine point and the bold point!! I can take notes forever with these. Makes studying fun. Second in line would be Papermate pens that go for 97 cents in a big pack.

I am a pen freak. I have thrown away more pens than most people have ever touched. I buy pens everywhere I go, always in search of the perfect pen. My search is over. I found this pen on the sidewalk on campus, saw that it was a uni, so thought I might as well check it out. OMG! I was so stoked when I first put it to paper. I have since tried it everywhere I could think of and it has never failed to delight me. I think I am about to purge every other pen out of my house and buy a box of these beautiful works of art! Hats off to uni!!