The Ballpoint Pen is the most popular writing instrument and the most widely used for everyday writing, due to its reliability and convenience. Ball pens write by using a ball to feed a viscous oil-based ink from the cartridge to the paper. The ink dries almost immediately after contact with paper, leaving the paper dry and smudge-free. An oil-based ink can resist to extreme temperatures and can write on the most surfaces types. The main characteristic of a ballpoint pen is the writing length – it can generate approx. 1500-3000 metre's of continuous ink. Ball pens come in huge variety of colours and designs with a huge range of writing line width options from 0.2mm to 1mm line. Parker Jotter ballpoint pen is one of the world-wide favourites. There are few innovative designs made by Yoropen, Stabilo, PenAgain for right- or left-handers. Fisher Space ballpoint pens with pressurised refills can write under extreme conditions, underwater and upside down. The Parker ballpoint refill is widely known and most widely available, many manufactures use The ‘Parker-style’ ballpoint refill for their ballpoint pens. The simplest types of ballpoint pens have a twist action, while others have a push button at the top and known as retractable ballpoint pens. Other types of ball pens have a push button on the side, usually found on multi-function pens which use more than one colour refill, i.e. Parker IM Profile 3in1 ballpoint pen, Parker Executive, Pilot 4in1 multi pen. If you are looking for a new ball pen then browser our range of Ballpoint pens below.