Paper Mate Ballpoint Pens, Write Bros. Blue Ink, Medium Point

There are two main things I didn’t like about these pens. One, this was my third purchase of something I supposedly had purchased twice before. Only this third purchase was very different from the first two?! How can the seller claim I am buying the same pen when the barrel and the ink are different?? At that point the seller should say, “We have discontinued the pens you were buying, but you might want to try our new cheap little pens instead.” The first two orders had regular ink in a hard plastic barrel. The newest order was a gel ink in softer cheaper barrel.

Secondly, many of the pens do not work at all. Some work well for a short time, but then run out of ink quickly, or the ink comes out too fast and gets blobby. The barrels are so soft and cheap that sometimes the cap will not stay in place after a few uses. The old Papermate pens were inexpensive, but a joy to use and not cheap. The new Papermate pens are frustrating and annoying because they are cheap cheap cheap.

Like how this writes, good price and fast delivery

Both my roommate and I are Cyber Savages. We require, every so often, to jot something down on paper with an ink pen. This leads to difficulties.

First, all working pens have the tendency to escape through an undiscovered portal into a world where pens are free to spin out their ink in words and designs of their own choosing. This leave us to sort uselessly through the detritus of pen cadavers and remains,

Further, the pen companies have persuaded us that what we write becomes, in some way, more literate, more poetic, the finer the line of ink; therefor, most pens come with a 0.5 or 0.7 millimeter width point. These fine point pens show a remarkable tendency to jam up after the first word or two, leaving the writer with a short stick with one fine pointed end suitable for stabbing, and a real desire to stab something.

Also, they have introduced pale colored ink, which is, I admit, pretty, but is less than useful at contrasting with the many equally-pretty colored writing papers available. The pale colored ink combined with the fine pointed pen in the hands of a necromancer able to keep it writing, leaves a pale spidery text which is difficult to read, no matter how well-formed his handwriting may be.

The “Paper Mate Write Bros Ballpoint Pens, Medium Point (1.0mm), Black, 60 Count” pens come with a rich black ink that is ideal for writing over any color, except those black redaction marks which show up on documents released by a Freedom of Information Act request. This is the worst thing I can say about this pen, at a time of political crises such as we are experiencing, this pen is totally apolitical.

The pen has a 1.0 millimeter wide point, which rolls out a nice thick line that is visible, and if the writer is literate, useful for communicating digits with coeds not permitted access to their smart phones and professors whose fading eyesight is somehow the fault of their students. And it continues to write for some time after the first word. Short longhand notes are possible, several even. Indeed, it is the speed of disappearance of all working pens, rather than longevity, which makes it difficult to say how long this pen continues to function.

Finally, even pen evaporation is addressed, since this pen comes, 60 at a time, in a cardboard box which can be stored on a special utility shelf and released into the wild one at a time. In that way these pens could be conserved for one, two, maybe even three months (but not four, let’s not fall prey to delusions). And at the price, a bargain, considering the length or writing pleasure, the reduction of fraying upon one’s temper, and the damage done to one’s office/desk/writing space when no working pen can be found and one becomes rather stabby with the useless, pointed (non) writing tools.

To sum up, this is a good deal for cyber savages.

This pen writes so smooth. Makes writing seem effortless. Best for my son. It doesn’t smear and looks neat and dries as soon as you write. It was recommended to me by another mom and I had to really thank her. Now I don’t just give my son, one is always in my bag too.

I don’t have a good handwriting plus I hate writing but these pen writes so great. I baought the for my daughter to use at school but im going to also use them to write my charts at work

I used this pen when adding the tip for my dinner last week, and I was shocked at how easily it was written on the receipt.
I was surprised once again when I found out how cheap this pen was, and I ended up buying the black color as well.

I recommend this pen to those who have been writing a long time,
and to have the freedom of losing your pen all the time!

Ink is dark blue and flows nicely. I did a random test, 20 pens wrote the first time out of the box.