Super Multi 8 0.7 mm Ballpoint Pen 2 mm Lead Holder (japan import)

Incredibly intuitive! Very simple operation, once you are used to the leads being gravity-fed. Easy to refill as well, it is much more user friendly than I thought it would be. It does require a certain level of gentleness, but otherwise the functioality is surprisingly smooth. Much smaller than anticipated, in a great way. It has a slightly larger diameter than a sharpie, which was very surprising when it arrived. It can easily replace 5-6 common writing instruments and takes up just a little more room than a permanent marker. Honestly a treat to use, highly recommended if you often use multiple pens and pencils for your writing tasks. Being able to swap between the fluorescent pencils and the 3 pen inks makes highlighting and editing genuinely fun.

Incredibly useful. Action for extending and changing refills is solidly built. The real value of the Multi 8 is the large variety of refill options and colors. I have changed several of the colored pencil leads out for different colors and added this to my daily use pen case.

Now I can write in my journal, in multiple colors but carry only one pen. Considering the pen body holds 8 different mediums, the pen is not bulky or too fat to write with easily. The 3 ballpoints pens write smoothly and the color pencils have good color (not too pale) — pink & yellow highlighter colors, red, and pale blue. The 8th insert is HB graphite lead, very smooth and black. Changing colors is very easy but read the included instructions — they are clear and complete. I’m very pleased with this quality Pentel tool!

EIGHT in one? Seriously? At a diameter no thicker than a 4+1 like the Uni Jetstream or the Dr. Grip? Seriously. But it’s a very different kind of writing tool than those multipens. Most obviously, it’s all about the *pencils*—which are 2mm leads, not the 0.5 or 0.7 mm you may be used to. You may want a separate little lead sharpener to keep with it if you’re interested in fine detail work (there isn’t one built in—nor is there an eraser built in, by the way). Now these leads come in seriously nifty colors—plain graphite, red, fluorescent yellow and pink, and non-copy pale blue, useful if you mark up stuff you don’t want to show on Xeroxes (B&W only) but also useful as another highlighter color if you’re into color-coding notes. Then, almost as an afterthought, you get black, red, and blue ballpoint inks. I have NOT seen refill inks marketed and cannot figure out how you’d get a refill in or out of this thing. They may not be possible. If anyone knows they are, and what type they are, please let me know! This thing is a little expensive to be disposable if you use up the inks, but the leads are readily available, so I guess it’s a great item if you’re going to use it mostly for the pencils and just occasionally for the pens. (The installed inks are nothing special, by the way, standard-seeming ballpoint stuff.) It comes with a little “manual” sheet that you’ll want to keep at least until you’ve used it for a while and gotten the selector out of alignment (and back into alignment with the help of the manual—it’s not difficult, just not intuitive). I haven’t seen anything much like it, except the possibly more awesome 8-color all-pencil model, also by Pentel. But unless I can figure out the ink refill mystery, I won’t be using it for much actual writing— more markup, editing, note-taking, etc.

Excelente bolígrafo hasta el momento funciona de maravilla

I wanted to like this pen but found it to be very clumsy and cheaply made. I wasted $15 but I’ll be okay. Life must go on as they say!

This gizmo is fun and interesting -- and useful. In one device you have three different color ballpoint pens, one standard lead pencil and then a few colored-pencil/crayon-like instruments. All in one device. You need to take about two minutes to figure out how to use it and how to adjust the settings. But after that it is fun and useful. The world is not perfect though -- because the proprietary Pentel Multi 8 refills cost an arm and a leg in relative terms. If you are going to be using the item regularly you may well expend twice the original cost on refills in a year. But I like it. There is a less expensive variation that does not include the ballpoint pens -- it is basically a multi-color crayon-like/colored pencil. I bought a pair of those for my daughters. No complaints.

Very useful and smartly made, the amount of colors and types it fits is also good. As long as you read the instructions on use, then everything should be solid! Good for the price when I bought it.

Very unusual pen. It has blue/red/black ink choices and several pencil-crayon-type leads and an HB lead; all in one writing instrument. The selection ring is not initially intuitive but functional once you familiarize yourself with the action. All plastic construction, but would like to see more solid construction. Functionality 6/10, Balance 5/10, Novelty 9/10

A beauty of a multifunction one . It can not be handled in a rugged manner though , as it contains a lot of functions

La funzionalità è espressa nella sua variata scelta di mine a vari colori

Great all in one pen!

Good quality and good for artists. No hassle of changing so many colour pencils.