Uni-Ball Signo Micro 207

I've been using this for a week or so for general purpose writing, and I'm pretty impressed. It starts up nicely, leaves a smooth, dark trail of ink behind on the paper as it writes, and it a reasonably attractive pen to boot. While this is a little thicker than I really prefer, it's not too bad. I've also seen these in staples more often than I've seen the Signo RT Gel pens.

A big advantage is that the ink capacity for this pen is easily 2 to 3 times larger than the Signo RT 0.38 pens.

Definitely a thumbs up for this one.

Uni-Ball 207 Micro 0.5

I just picked up a package of these at Staples, 4 for $6.99. I'm curious to see how they write compared to the Signo RT 0.38 pens that are currently my favorite. I suspect that they will be too broad for a Moleskine, but we'll see.

Pilot Precise V5

Another pretty generic capped pen with a "needle point". This writes pretty well, and the ink doesn't smear. This is a rollerball instead of a gel pen, and it writes well. I left it uncapped for a couple of hours, and it started up without any skipping. The ink delivery is smooth, with a consistent line width and no skips.

This has a hard plastic grip, so writing with this for a long period of time would probably be uncomfortable. Other than that, it's not a bad pen. I'd certainly pick this over the Staples and the Sarasa pens, primarily because of the smearing issues.

Zebra Sarasa 0.7

Nice retractable pen with a smooth rubberized grip. Comfortable to hold, and a smooth writer. On the other hand, this ink suffers from the same problem as the Staples Sonix pen, in that it smears pretty easily. Since I can't stand ink that smears, I'd have to give this a thumbs down.