The Uni-ball Jetstream is unassuming. It appears like another ballpoint pen. It’s light-weight, has a retractable tip, and is bought in a number of tip colours and widths.
However the Jetstream is the one pen I exploit after I can assist it, and it’s the one pen I defend over all others.
Our decide
With its fast-drying ink, this pen is our go-to for on a regular basis writing on any type of paper.
The Jetstream writes easily with minimal stress towards the web page and doesn’t bleed via the paper or smudge, and its rounded barrel is snug to carry whereas freewriting over lengthy intervals of time. It is available in two widths — 0.7 mm and 1.0 mm — and three colours.
At Wirecutter, we’re critical about our pens. We’ve had 70 professionally choosy staff and 4 pen consultants (for actual) provide their enter on the greater than two dozen pens we’ve examined since 2013. And the Uni-ball Jetstream has been a Wirecutter decide via all of it (even amongst lefties!).
Our testers discovered that the Jetstream was a workhorse: dependable, versatile and nice to make use of. It’s not essentially the most thrilling pen but it surely additionally doesn’t should be. It simply works nicely.
Ballpoint know-how was invented within the 1800s, however Uni-ball (initially the Masaki Pencil Manufacturing Firm, based within the late nineteenth century) didn’t produce its first ballpoint pen till 1959.
What makes the Jetstream, launched in 2006, really feel completely totally different from different ballpoints is its low-viscosity, quick-drying, archival-quality ink.
Branded as “Tremendous Ink,” it effortlessly flows with out having to get the pen-to-paper stress ratio simply so, as is critical with different ballpoints that skip or fade the longer you write. The Jetstream ink’s vibrant colour mirrors that of a gel pen, and it bonds to the paper higher than different ballpoint inks to guard towards water harm and fading. It’s even refillable! (When your Jetstream runs out of ink, test Uni-ball’s Refill Information.)
I hold two pens in my purse: the Jetstream, and a type of low cost stick pens that float round occasion cubicles and are nowhere close to nearly as good.
If somebody asks to borrow a pen, I’ll spend the additional minute rummaging in my bag for the giveaway pen, in case the passerby mistakenly walks away with it.
The unique model of this publish was a part of our 2020 “52 Issues We Love” collection, an ode to Wirecutter picks which have withstood the take a look at of time. Learn the whole collection. The present model was edited by Rachelle Bergstein and Catherine Kast.
