Customer reviews from Staples
TRU RED - TRU RED Retractable Quick Dry Gel Pens, Fine Point, 0.5mm, Assorted, 12/Pack (TR54491)
Average customer rating
4.3
(639 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 639 reviews
5 Stars
453
4 Stars
66
3 Stars
39
2 Stars
24
1 Star
57
Customer Reviews for TRU RED - TRU RED Retractable Quick Dry Gel Pens, Fine Point, 0.5mm, Assorted, 12/Pack (TR54491)
Posted by: L.S.
Verified Purchase:Yes
These are my office new best pens! They are continually being stolen from my desk by people who prefer them over any other bread!
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Posted by: DENISE T.
Verified Purchase:Yes
they write nice dry quick
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Posted by: CAROLINE M.
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Writing with these pen is smooth. The flow on the paper when writing. I highly recommend these pens. My co-worker are alway trying to steal this pen from me. They like the way it writes.
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Posted by: Phyllis
from Morrisonville
Verified Purchase:Yes
They skip when writing! I was not at all satisfied with these pens. I returned them for a more expensive but much better gel pen.
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Posted by: G.C.
Verified Purchase:Yes
Great helpful staff no push only help
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Posted by: J.L.
Verified Purchase:Yes
I do a lot of writing by hand both as a biologist taking field notes in rough and remote terrain and as an author penning and editing manuscripts. I have basically given up on ball-point pens. They just aren't made the way they used to be. For decades I got along just fine with good old Paper Mate medium point black stick pens. They seemed to give me a darker less tentative line than Bic sticks. Then PM just stopped making them and every basic working class pen they've come up with since seems to glob ink. I tried everybody's ball point I could think of and they all seemed to either glob ink or to struggle to leave a dark enough trail. I don't know if it's the design or the manufacturing process for modern ball points but they all seem to lack the basic consistent flow that ballpoints of the past had. I tried a few other gel pens but may of these are slow-drying. So far Tru Red 0.5 mm seems to give me a fast-drying non-smearing non-globbing line.
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Posted by: PAULA H.
Verified Purchase:Yes
The ink has a steady even flow and comfortable grip.
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Posted by: G.C.
Verified Purchase:Yes
Writes smooth. No smudging. Love them
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