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I just received this pen, and it came with those international small cartridges, black and unlabled. The company says they are Sheaffer ink; is there a name for this particular ink? Would it be Skrip? Whatever, it certainly feathered a fair amount on regular paper.

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I have a VFM and can confirm that it does take (only) short standard international cartridges. I think Sheaffer also sells their own s.i. cartridges (here in the Philippines at least). However, the store I bought mine from gave me unbranded cartridges and not the ones Sheaffer makes so I wouldn't know if they're Sheaffer Skrip ones...

 

That's the thing about the VFM: since they can only take cartridges (and not converters), I'm glad they opted to use the standard international format. Why not just buy cartridges by another brand?

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Rubbermaid owns Parker, Cross, Sheaffer, and Waterman? There goes all illusion of choice at Staples...

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Rubbermaid owns Parker, Cross, Sheaffer, and Waterman? There goes all illusion of choice at Staples...

 

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I have a VFM and can confirm that it does take (only) short standard international cartridges. I think Sheaffer also sells their own s.i. cartridges (here in the Philippines at least). However, the store I bought mine from gave me unbranded cartridges and not the ones Sheaffer makes so I wouldn't know if they're Sheaffer Skrip ones...

 

That's the thing about the VFM: since they can only take cartridges (and not converters), I'm glad they opted to use the standard international format. Why not just buy cartridges by another brand?

 

Yes, my cartridges were unmarked but Goldspot said they were Sheaffer, which I assume is Skrip. I don't like them, so I wanted to make sure what they are, as if Sheaffer, why aren't they marked?

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Maybe, if this was the first time I'd heard it. There's rumors that Staples Canada wants to narrow their focus to Rubbermaid writing instruments only. They've dropped a few brands of pens already - no more in-store Pilot anythings, etc. And for fountain pens the rumor already looks true. No more Pilots, no more Zebras, just all the brands you suppose are owned by Rubbermaid.

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Cross owns Sheaffer, having bought them from BiC. It's not yet clear what Cross might do with Sheaffer pens -- Cross and Sheaffer pens are both manufactured in China, so they could consolidate factories. Sheaffer moved ink production to Slovenia around 2000, reformulated the inks and designed new bottles. Cross ink, I think, is made in Japan using bottles from China. (Don't trust my memory!) I doubt anyone knows what Cross will do with Sheaffer's ink-making. See the Sheaffer sub-forum for more guesses about Cross and Sheaffer. Cross was bought, recently, by what looks to be a venture capital firm in Los Angeles.

 

Parker and Waterman belong to Newell-Rubbermaid.

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This is what they said came with my Sheaffer VFM. Is this Skrip?

 

 

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This is what they said came with my Sheaffer VFM. Is this Skrip?

 

 

 

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This is what they said came with my Sheaffer VFM. Is this Skrip?

 

 

Thank God 😅 I thought for a moment I was making it (Sheaffer standard international cartridges) up in my head, like maybe I misremembered what I saw in the shop 😅

 

Does it say "Sheaffer" on your cartridges? I'm pretty sure mine were blank, though the shop where I bought my VFM tends to swap out carts with generic ones. But I can't complain because the ink I got was pretty decent 😅

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Mine don't say anything on the cartridge, and they didn't come in that package. Goldspot referred me to that package when I asked what type of cartridge. But from the package, it looks like those cartridges are no name on them too.

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Mine don't say anything on the cartridge, and they didn't come in that package. Goldspot referred me to that package when I asked what type of cartridge. But from the package, it looks like those cartridges are no name on them too.

So I guess the cartridge I got could've been Sheaffer ink. But like I said, it was pretty decent so maybe you just got an old/bad cartridge.

 

You can always try different branded cartridges if you don't like the Sheaffer ones. I rarely use black ink so I just refill empty ones with different ink. I'd suggest Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black short s.i. cartdriges; the ink is on the drier side and could help with the feathering issue.

 

Hope that helps 😊

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