ParkerJotter C.C. pen

I like the smooth writing of the Jotter but found it a bit small. The XL jotter is more my style. But this is an excellent pen!

What a nostalgic feeling to have one of this classic Parkers. As a kid, only my parents and my grandparents and other grown ups had these great quality pens. I’m happy to know they still make it the same classic design

Nice inexpensive pen. Only down side is proprietary cartridges for ink. It does come v with two, one blue, one black which is nice. it is slenderso if you have large hands you might not like it.

This pen is larger than a conventional ballpoint Jotter, but not by a lot. Great for EDC and starts every time with no problems. This was my second one. All metal, ridiculously inexpensive. There's no choice in nib size but medium. In this case, it's not an issue. Buy one.

The pen I received was made in France and I found it to be very good quality. The plastic material was easy to grip, the mechanism worked smoothly, and the filler wrote smoothly and evenly. If I had to find a fault, it would be that the diameter of the plastic part of the pen seemed a little narrower that the Parkers I got a few decades ago which made it a little harder to hold. Great value since it was on sale.

I bought a lot of fountain pens, some from Japan, some from China. Overall, I like this Parker the best. The tip is smooth with the right amount of resistance. More importantly, the ink never leaks to my fingers.

You should know that this is my first fountain pen, so I've nothing with which to compare it. I've had a very rocky start with this pen; it was far from a plug and play experience. It took a lot of fiddling around trying to get the ink to flow. My daughter did most of the fiddling including running hot water through it. What finally got it flowing was when I aggressively squeezed the ink cartridge between my thumb and forefinger thus forcing the ink out of the cartridge. Even when it finally started flowing it initially had a lot of skips, or dry starts. The skips are mentioned in other reviews as well.It took persistence to get to the point of liking this pen. It's almost as if it needed a break-in period to get limbered up. Now that I've been using it more often the skips are fewer and far between, but I never have a skip-free experience. I chose this pen to see if I would like writing with a fountain pen, and have found that when it works I do enjoy the feel. It's smoother than a typical ball point although not as smooth as a gel pen. I chose a Parker because that's what my dad always had in his pocket, specifically a Parker 51 which was a beautiful instrument. Some day I'll treat myself and splurge on a teal blue 51 in memory of him.

I buy a new one whenever I see them go on sale for under 8bucks. These are great pens and at the right price you won't care when someone steals if it from you or when you lose it. It also makes a great gift.