Which is BETTER? Ballpoint Vs Gel Pens 💥

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0:00 Intro
0:21 What's the Difference Between Ballpoint Pens & Gel Pens?
1:40 Which Pen Should You Get?
2:18 Ballpoint & Gel Pen Recommendations
6:46 Outro

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[JetPens]

Team Ballpoint or Team Gel Pen? It's so hard to choose! Cast your vote in the comments below!

[ItoeKobayashi]

Thanks to this video, I've discovered that a set of pens my father gifted me years ago are an older version of the Parker Jotter! The mention of the arrow clip had me pausing the video to dig it out and confirm it! Now I know what ink to get for it when it runs out!

[akira_ariga]

I've been a gel pen person most of my life and use them for most normal writing. However, I still carry around a backup ballpoint just in case. I do love all the uniball stuff, especially their ballpoints, but for gel, I tend to prefer the energel. No real reason other than I just think it feels nice and the love the clonky click it has. (Also frixion because I hate commitment xD)

*I've recently tried the sarasa grand and ohto liberty for the first time and they were also fantastic

[eric_the_egggremlin]

my mom is an accountant who likes to color code and writes very fast. gel pens are her fave. she still uses ballpoints on receipts, but she covets Papermate Ink Joys like they're gold.

[gerarddip]

You know a video producer is brilliant when i become entranced by pen ads of all things

[masonr]

Here is the major difference I have found in ballpoint pens versus gel pens:

The line from a ballpoint pen tends to be thinner than a line from a gel pen.

Ballpoint pens also tend to not have an even and consistent ink flow. You also need a bit more pressure to write with them. The benefit is they can write on most papers, so you don't have to pay attention to paper quality. They also tend to be cheap, and disposable.

Gel pens, have much smoother and more consistent ink flow than ballpoint pen [it is rare to see an inconsistent line], however, not all gel pens are created equal, I have had some pens skip, and require some shaking of the pen to get it to write again. Gel pens do not do well on glossy paper. They are less finicky than fountain pens when it comes to paper choice. They are my preferred pen type. [Yes, I own fountain pens, ballpoint pens, rollerball, and felt tip pens.]

[qwe]

Energel all day long. I spent SO MANY years trying different pens and for a long time settled on UniBall as the best of the bunch, but I was never completely satisfied. I bought a JetPens sampler pack a few years ago and was mind-blown at how well Energel worked with my lefty overwriting, in terms of ink vibrancy and quick drying.

[mellow-jello]

Professional trio: Parker Jotter, Pentel Energel Philography, and Uniball Signo 207. Can't go wrong with either, but 207 definitely for signatures.

[clear-radar]

Rollerball pen lover: 🥺
Rollerballs are underrated. I love writing with Uni-ball Vision Elite, and Pilot V-ball which is not on JetPens.

[kateru]

Team Ballpoint ;D Perfect pens for me: Uni Jetstream, Berlingo Skyline and Pilot Acroball.

[bunnymoonvii]

Well, gel pens are for fun, I get them in a ton of different colors, and they give me that dopamine hit, but ballpoints are for utility, you have one and you know it'll work

[yn]

Here's my opinion: I prefer gel because unlike ball point pens, the consistency is perfect. You could draw straight lines smoothly unlike ball pens, their ink faints when exposed to longer consistency. Additionally, the blue which ballpoint pens have are more like purple, or maybe a dull version of blue. It just doesn't match with my preferences. Although there are some ballpoint pens with good blue, it's very rare to find them.

[coursefearwell]

I prefer ballpoint pens.
Mainly because of the issue where the ink beads up at the tip and makes a mess when you write. It happens with both types, but it seems to happen more to me with gel pens.

[nonymus-unpx]

1:42 Missed the perfect opportunity to say ‘It de-pens’

[themisterchristie]

If I had to choose between ballpoint or gel pen, it would depend on the situation. Normal paper, gel pen all the way, my choice the Pentel Energel. More extreme surfaces where gel doesn't work well would be a ballpoint, my choice is the Zebra X-701 because it can be used in all sorts of extreme situations, from under water to upside-down.

That said, most of the time I'm neither team gel pen, nor team ballpoint, rather team fountain pen.

[Andidejager.]

I like ballpoint pens for sketching when I don’t want to option of using an eraser! I went to one of the Trump hotels all the way back in 2012 for a karate tournament and got a free pen there. Somehow that pen NEVER goes missing and I don’t even care for it. So that’s the ballpoint I’ve been using for over a decade😂 finally purchased a nice refillable one today! Gel pens are also really fun though, the colours are so fun and I often use them over the ballpoint sketches to add colour and darken the lines 😍

[sylviarienzo]

I discovered the Parker Jotter about twenty-five years ago. I still love this pen. I loved that it wrote upside down too so I could do my crossword puzzles lying down. I have struggled with buying refills for it. Sometimes the ink comes dried out (or something, I’m not sure why it won’t write properly). I wound up buying eight or ten of these pens so I could have them in every room in the house. They are great ball point pens!

[vivianlopez]

Since I was a child I used ballpoint pens, I have to pay the price, callouses in my middle finger 'cause I'm a heavy handwriter 😞😞, until I discovered gel pens a few years ago at college, nowadays I spread the word of gel pens 😌😌.

My GOAT gel pen PENTEL ENERGEL.
My fave ballpoint whichever low viscosity pen.

[heathergleiser]

I’m primarily a fountain pen user, but I can’t give up my Signo 151 gel or Retro 51 rollerball. They all have a purpose in my collection.

[loumacuser]

I find either the Fisher Space Pen refill or Zebra F701 standard ink are most versatile in a fast paced work or industrial environment. I do use however a Pilot Juice (gel) in my Karas Kustoms Retrakt for my planner. I just say, the Caran d’Ache 849 BP Ink writes amazingly well and smooth.