Cartridge or Bottle

[significantpass]

Bottled

[eilu]

Bottle, if only for the wider selection of inks available.

[Lefthander]

My preference is bottled ink, but cartridges have there place. When on travel I like the convenience of cartridges.

[jeff9]

bottle fill only for me.

[OiRogers]

Bottled ink, hands down. Self-filling pens get a big plus from me: Piston / button / lever / etc... These types get a big preference over convertor filled pens. I have a strong aversion to cartridge only pens.

 

On the road? Nalgene 1oz bottles of ink keep my pens fueled.

[WyattS]

Bottled for me, I don't know, I really just don't like cartridges. I tend to get myself more messy using cartridges than bottled :-P Cartridges are a pain to start in my Phileas too.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I like bottled ink, in one has such a large selection.

 

I prefer large volume natural filling pens, such as piston or sac to cartridges which are expensive,small in volume and do not come in enough ink colors.

 

I find converters to be small in volume, however can put what inks I have in it with no trouble. I have three pens with converters.

Over a period of time the converter pays for itself, against the expense of a cartridge.

 

In that I do not expect to be running around with only one pen for an extended period of time, where I would say, fill the converter and take two or more cartridges with me.

 

I am old fashioned. I have shirt pockets. I have a nice three cigar leather case that I use for pens. I prefer that to carrying a lot of cartridges in my pockets, in that I do not carry a "modern" man's purse.

 

If one is still in school and has a plastic three ring plastic zip bag in one's binder, I could see carrying or owning a cartridge pen. I did that when I was in school in the 50-60's.

Cartridges were expensive then and still are.

 

Of course one could fill his piston filler every morning while drinking coffee and not worry about that. If one worries, a second pen or even a (matching) ball point spare would take care of that problem.

 

 

I have a cheap Chinese pen sitting in my rotation stand, only because I have an open cartridge in it. I have not been using my Lamy Joy 1.5 nib calligraphy pen enough lately. As soon as that cartridge is empty, I will swap out the cartridge in the HuaHong and put it away until I sell it.

 

PS That HuaHong had originally a Chinese ink cartridge, which wrote is some ugly green. By accident I shook up the pen some and found out it was black ink. So I'd be wary of Chinese ink in cartridges.

[buffalowings]

My baby pelikan only knows how to drink from the bottle

[silhouette]

Cartridges, my parents won't let me buy bottled ink.

[djpyle]

Cartridges, my parents won't let me buy bottled ink.

Why not?

[Shangas]

I'm another bottle-feeder. They're just cheaper, is why I do it. Plus, more colours and inks.

[Pippin60]

No difference to me. If I like a pen and its is a fantastic writer, and looks and feels good, then the fact that it may be cartridge only makes no difference to me. Also I've become fairly proficient in the use of converters so I still get the ink variety.

[lapis]

Bottles only. IMO cartridgs have only disadvantages.

If I have a cartridge pen, I use the converter supplied with it on purchase or I buy one separately.

 

Mike

[Edgar Allan Bo]

for out of the house mostly cartridge pens...

[View from the Loft]

A bottle of ink in the office, a bottle at home. Can't remember the last time I used a cartridge out of choice.

[BrandonA]

No preference.

[Bartimaeus]

I don't care much about the cartridge/bottle issue anymore. Formerly I was a bottle advocate.

I changed my mind when I started using the Namiki Falcon and the Decimo which have the small converter that isn't much use.

[AndreaDuni]

I voted for bottle. But it is sure more comfortable using cartridges, especially while travelling.

[professionaldilettante]

Bottle all the way. much more variety, and more environmentally sound.

[mikeyp]

Really not much of a preference here. While I rather use a bottle for sure, its nice to have a cartridge pen that can hold 2 for when I may not be able to fix the pen. I can keep one spare inside the pen, and refill the first one with a syringe.