What's the best pen you've ever used?

[Annabell Lee]

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My favorite pens come from the breast center at a hospital in my area. They give them out at health fairs and stuff. The ink is black but the pen itself is white and pink with a breast cancer awareness theme and really nice pink gripper. They write very smoothly, last a really long time, are cute, and just fit my hand perfectly. Also they are free.

 

[fancymylotus]

The best pen I've used so far is the Velocity 1.0 by Bic

The ones I steal from other docs, my assistants, the front desk girls, etc

 

[velodork]

Dr. Grip Center of Gravity

 

[ThinkReallyFast]

Black: Staedtler Archival Pens! Especially the 0.05 MM & 0.2 MM. 🙂
Color: Staedtler Triplus 0.3 MM FineLiners!

 

[AGSIII]

Rotring 600 is the pen I've used. The German version is the best. The balance is perfect. The 600 pencil is also great.

 

[rangerdad]

Someone else pen!!!! Do it all the time, jk....

 

[Promethean]

I have been a nurse for a long time. I routinely left the hospital with more pens than I brought in with me. This was not due to deliberate theft. Just, pens get left laying around, and I pick them up habitually. If a pen is on the floor, it is mine. Left on the pyxis /med dispense machine, mine. In the charting room with no obvious owner, mine.

I square up my karma by freely giving pens away to anyone in need. "Oh, you lost your pen? Here, take one of mine." I have reunited many pens with their proper owners in this way. But still, I have several little pen piles around my home. Even if I immediately stopped my pen redistributing ways, I expect that I will never need to buy a pen, ever, for the rest of my career.

Now, mechanical pencils. Those I have some preferences about. Give me my sharpwrite 0.7mm over any pen, anyday.

 

[caffeinemia]

We all have vices.
And a birth certificate deserves the best!

only if you drop the squealer.

 

[caffeinemia]

I've been quickly typing to see images of every pen model in this thread, to see how it looks like and I got to yours and I got the labeled NSFW version. Well played.

Bwahahahaha. 😉 Didn't need to google. coulda just asked me

 

[charmiedermie]

Bwahahahaha. 😉 Didn't need to google. coulda just asked me

😉 Does it ever run out of ink?

 

[caffeinemia]

all pens run out, some after a novel; others after a paragraph. Most can be refilled.

 

[Bookworm36]

uniball Signo 207 micro....enjoy!

 

[Holmwood]

What nerds...

I recommend this: Amazon product ASIN B003RAE19QIt's cool, but I haven't personally tried it and assessed its productivity.
Records everything you write as well as the audio.

 

[biodome92]

Townsend Rollerball Cross Pen.

 

[moisne]

Normal notes - lots of writing = energel 0.7 = easy to write, little effort
Moderate amount of notes: TUL 0.5
Writing on handouts/notes/inbetween lines/in margins = HI-TEC-C 0.3 mm

 

[Medgrant]

I've tried a lot of different pens. What's ironic is that the more expensive ones seem to be terrible. I started using the Pentel WOW! ballpoint pens. They're cheap, too.

Would anyone recommend me a decent, smear-free, pen that is comfortable enough to write for 6-10 hours at a time?

 

[Yoshers]

I agree with Medgrant. The Pentel RSVP pens are the bomb (medium and fine). Have been using them since middle school.

 

[Medgrant]

After reading some of the posts I ordered a few Uniball signo 0.38s and Jetstream 0.5s. They're both easy to write with, but I dont like the color of the Jetstream pens as its not a dark enough "black" compared to the signo model. Also, the 0.38 signos write thicker than the 0.5 Jetstream pens.