higher quality pen refills?

[Stephen Hibbs]

I have had a bit of difficulty making my ballpoint pen, which has the standard Cross refill in it work consistently. It's not terrible, but occasionally it can get irritating. I saw on psi's site they have 'higher quality' Cross style refills by Schmidt. Are these better and more reliable?

[Stan Cook]

While I've not used any of the cross style refills by Schmidt, I have used their rollers, parker style refills, and converters. I have found all of them to be very good quality.

[Lars Thomas]

Depending on the destination, I usually toss the included refill and replace it with a Parker Gel part number 30525.

[Frank Kobilsek]

Stephen,

I find the ballpoint refills in kits to be OK. They are all black ink so I usually keep a few blue ink refills in stock, mostly because I like blue.

Rollerballs refills included in kits on the other hand are horrible. I always replace those with something else. Schmidts are good but whatever the local office supply store has is fine and 10X better than the refill provided.

Enjoy

Frank

[Dario Octaviano]

I never used Schmidt "cross" type refill but their Rollerball refill is the only one I use and I believe is the best out there.

I also use their "Parker" type refill on occasion but I personally prefer gel refills. A shame that they stopped making gel refills though.

They offer great quality products and their "cross" type refill is probably worth trying.