Cartridge or Bottle

[junoro]

I am asking this question because it is popular among new users. I have a feeling of the responses, but figured I would check and see.

[Aysedasi]

Bottle without a doubt. I don't like using cartridges at all.

[dizzypen]

I don't mind using cartridges, but I much prefer bottled ink.

[jar]

No difference.

[Carrie]

Bottled ink, preferably being used to fill a lever fill pen. It took me many years of looking before I finally decided to buy a modern Conway Stewart Dinkie simply because of it being cartridge only. If CS in its modern incarnation had done a lever fill Dinkie I would have been sold in an instant.

[teatime]

Cartridges definitely! All kinds of them: .22, 9mm, .40, .357, .38, 7.62x39, .308. Alas, they don't fit to the pen. For the pen God gave us all kinds of bottles :roflmho:

[scratchy]

I have no real preference. I enjoy both.

 

Except for my Sailor pens where it is cartridges all the way. If I want to use a bottled ink for them I refill the cartridges because the flow is much better than from the Sailor converter (which has a small capacity anyway)

[teatime]

...Sailor pens where it is cartridges all the way. If I want to use a bottled ink for them I refill the cartridges because the flow is much better than from the Sailor converter (which has a small capacity anyway)

And that's great, cause it saves me a huge amount of money for KOP

[JakeTx]

Bottled is the only way to go . To me bottled ink is classic.

 

Jake

[RitaCarbon]

BOTH!

Bottle-inked at home and at work. Cartridges for travel.

Edited February 18, 2010 by RitaCarbon

[penicillin]

Bottle offers far more choices. But when making rounds, a cartridge-filled with an extra cartridge in the pocket works well.

 

M

[HelzBelz]

Bottle-filled offers more choice, is better for the environment, cheaper and feels cooler to use.

[stevlight]

Bottle---I don't mind carts per say but hate having diff. carts for each diff brand of pen.

[bookworm2109]

I prefer bottle because there are so many more color choices out there with bottle inks...plus I just like the idea of using bottled ink.

[djpyle]

I prefer bottle because there are so many more color choices out there with bottle inks...plus I just like the idea of using bottled ink.

Those are my thoughts pretty much word for word.

[bushido]

i voted bottled but cartridges are good way to start or if you want convenience especially during travel. my daily user in fact is a montblanc le grand traveler which only takes cartridge.

[Feanor]

Converters win in every respect except that they're arguably not quite as quick and easy as a cartridge. However, if you factor in the time for ink to migrate to the end of the nib when you put a new cart in a dry pen, they don't even win there.

[Yuki Onitsura]

I switch inks far too often for cartridges to be an economically viable option. The only cartridges I use are the ones that come with the pen (and sometimes not even those)

 

Yuki

[pmsalty]

Bottle only for this FPN'r.

PMS

[ExcaliburZ]

At home or at the office bottle filled. Going on a trip cartridge.