Customer Reviews

Genuine Montblanc Bottled Ink Refill - Royal Blue 39100BE Authorized Mont Blanc Pen Dealer

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four times I've tried to counter this -- there are 'comptuer colors' - that is, a color looks the same on every monitor using any browser -- but even that's not right - I'm interested in the CONTAINER -- Does it work, like the hidden pocket inside a bottle of Parker Ink - where you can put the nib of your pen so you can fill it without immersing the entire pen in the ink. So first one must ask are ALL inks the exactly same color (as it appears on Amazon as of now. What I wonder is DOES THE INK CONTAINER WORK? Mont Blanc makes some of the finest pens in the world. We might assume that they also make ink that works in one of the finest pens in the world, so that means it works in good pens, in poor pens things may be different-- but to give ONE START FOR the shown color is silly. Now finding a 'royal blue' is not diffiuclt - in drys - changes color. Parker, Waterman, Pelican, Sheaffer, Rotering, Mont Blanc, Levenger, and a hundred other companies make their own 'royal blue' -- each is it's own SPECIFIC color. Both in the bottle AND on the page, AND after it drys -- not to mention two weeks AFTER it drys. So, why does this get a 5-star rating? Because 1) I can shake the ink to re-suspend the color in the liquid, 2) the small end allows 99% of nibs to fit without over-flowing either the ink reservoir, or getting too much ink on the pen itself, 3) the ink drys reasonably fast, needing little more that a wave or two even if using a VERY large nib as one might find on the Shaffer Centennial (i.e. the 1940's over-sized pen like MacArthur used to sign the Japanese Peace Treaty). The shape is well designed, though not as simple as the small container inside the Parker Bottle - you can see far easier than the parker allows how much ink is left, and when you need to order some more. And, of course you DO pay a bit more for the ink because of the bottle, but the ink is fine - and the bottle works fine. It is far cheaper than purchasing a separate crystal ink well for your desk, and works just as well.