Filling Fountain Pen With Converter

Cartridge pens and pens with piston converters.

Filling fountain pen with converter. Fill a converter style fountain pen most fountain pens that use ink cartridges can also use an ink converter. Dip the nib into the ink then release the button to fill the pen. Learn how to fill your fountain pen with our easy to follow instructions.

There are many ways to fill a fountain pen with ink. To refill a cartridge pen just snap in a new cartridge. Bottled inks come in a wider range.

There are two types of fountain pen converter you should be aware of before attempting to fill with liquid ink. Most reservoirs are either a piston converter a cartridge or an ink bladder. Converter cleaning and care.

A button filler pen uses a button to compress a sac which then creates suction to draw ink into the pen. For all lamy fountain pens except. An ink converter allows the fountain pen to use bottled ink rather than ink cartridges.

Push and hold the button down compressing the sac. The key difference is a piston converter involves a rotating mechanism to draw up the ink and a squeeze converter works by releasing the vacuum when absorbing the ink. To learn more and see some of our top recommended inks check out our fountain pen ink guides.

And for more information on the various ways to fill a fountain pen be sure to read our article on fountain pen filling systems explained. Lamy 2000 lamy dialog 3 the cartridge of the lamy dialog 3 attaches to the ink supply channel using only a slight amount of pressure. The cartridge is a self contained disposable unit filled with ink.