Livescribe ARA-000008 4 Medium Black and 1 Fine Red Ink Cartridge

by Livescribe

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.8 x 5.5 x 1.8 inches ; 1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001AAOZV4
• Item model number: ARA-000008
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
  • #1 in Office Products > Educational Supplies > Writing & Correction Supplies > Pens & Refills
  • #70 in Office Products > Office Supplies
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Livescribe ARA-000008 4 Medium Black and 1 Fine Red Ink Cartridge. Four Medium Blue and one Red cartridge to refills for your Livescribe Pulse Smartpen. New Ink Colors for your Livescribe Smartpen

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

61 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Why can't Livescribe do gel ink?, February 12, 2010

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Benjamin Geslison (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Livescribe ARA-000008 4 Medium Black and 1 Fine Red Ink Cartridge (Personal Computers)

Although the livescribe pen is a technological marvel, the quality of the ink is terrible. It is reminiscent of the free ballpoint pens you collect by the dozen at trade shows. Even the free pens at the bank have better quality ink than this. Now that we live in the 21st century, and have an amazing assortment of ink technologies, why is it that the most technologically advanced pen uses 1950s-era ink? After writing a page, I look back and it seems that I have been etching with a stylus for half the page. Please make some gel-based, or even dye-based ink cartridges rather than the garbage currently used.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars these dry up very quickly, March 17, 2009

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Neurasthenic "neurasthenic" (New York City, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Livescribe ARA-000008 4 Medium Black and 1 Fine Red Ink Cartridge (Personal Computers)

I've had three of these nibs dry up to the point of unusability within fifty pages of writing. It maybe related to the fact that (a) the livescribe pens don't have tops, and (b) the cradle holds the pen horizontally. Anyway, I'm going through many more cartridges than expected. I just ordered some blue ones in the hope that they last longer than the black; I'll report in a review on that page if I have any luck.

24 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good value, thanks to Livescribe's rational pricing, November 27, 2009

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Jerry Saperstein (Evanston, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Livescribe ARA-000008 4 Medium Black and 1 Fine Red Ink Cartridge (Personal Computers)

The Livescribe Pulse Pen is becoming my ever more frequent companion as I learn just how useful it is.

The more you write, believe it or not, the sooner you'll run out of ink. Thus the ongoing need for refills.

The Livescribe pen uses a short refill of a kind I don't recall seeing before.

Livescribe, much to its credit, does not gouge you for refills as printer manufacturers do for ink cartridges. They are very reasonably price at a little less than a dollar each. (If you have Amazon Prime, shipping is free making this an extraordinary value.)

I am getting about fifty pages of journal entries from each cartridge, meaning a cost of about two cents per page. Not bad at all.

Livescribe goes the extra mile here and cover the tip of each refill with wax to keep the ink from hardening or evaporating or whatever ink does.

It is nice of Livescribe (and obviously good for business) that they don't make us of their marvelous so expensive that it is used less.

Jerry