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

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!

Exactly as advertised amazing quality, just wish it had an eraser !

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.

Love this pen. Didn't know it was a pencil too

I love the Pentel 8 color pen. My old one that is, not the new ones. I needed some refills for colors. When I looked I found a good deal on one pen with three inks,pencil and four colors. The other one was eight colors and had all eight refill packages. Both really good prices so I bought each. Both suck. The one with ink is stuck on the yellow color and will only dispense it regardless of how you turn the dial. The other eight color's dial doesn't line up so if you are pointed at the red it dispenses two colors over. For example, if you're on the brown it dispenses two colors over which might be the green. The green dispenses red, etc. So, they both suck. Go back to the original design pen, Pentel. I don't know what you did to it but you screwed it up. I'm very disappointed in you.

I love this pencil/pen combo! I sketch often so it's great that I can use this for writing and sketching. Is there a place where I can get refills on the pen ink?

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.

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.