Monteverde Refills For Lamy Ballpoint Pens - Wow!

June 30, 2019

I've used the Monteverde refills in Lamy Safari, CP-1,and Studio for some time-I have yet to experience fit problems due to misalignment of plastic pieces, and I agree, they do write better than the Lamy refills:probably due to the shelf age of the Lamy refills--I'm sure they sit on shelf longer than the Monteverde refills.

February 3, 2020

Recently, the only local supplier of LAMY or Monteverde refills for LAMY closed. I enquired at Office Depot and they could not order, I checked with Staples and the Monteverde can be ordered but in quantities of 15 at 159.00 dollars! So far it looks like the internet is the only way to get them in small quantities. Oh, Im in central Kentucky, and no place in any of the larger cities near me stock or sell LAMY.

April 30, 2020

It's been several years since I started this thread.

Now, I have to caution everyone about the Monteverde refills in the Lamy M16 size. I bought six Monteverde Soft Roll refills (3 blue and 3 black) in the Lamy M16 size a year ago, and stored them. When I went to refill my Lamy 2000, the refills do not stick out far enough to work.

The one on the left is a Lamy M16, then three Monteverdes (green, blue, and blue). The only ones that works at all in the Lamy 2000 are the green one (which is new) and an older blue one removed from the pen, on the far right, and even that is slightly “off” in the location of the collar. The six I have are all like the third from the left and they don’t fit!

Aside from the fit issue, are you aware that these refills are now advertised as fluid vs. the low viscosity soft roll? Could you verify?

September 8, 2020

Aside from the fit issue, are you aware that these refills are now advertised as fluid vs. the low viscosity soft roll? Could you verify?

It is still advertised as "the latest low viscosity ink for the smoothest writing experience ever!". I don't care for these refills. I use Monteverde in my Parker-style refill pens only, and not the low-viscosity oil-based ink ones; just the gel ones (P42). I prefer the Schmidt P600 Softline (not P900 non-Softline) and 9000M Easyflow, or Schneider over the Monteverde.