Jinhao Ink Cartridge

Love it, but I thought it would be liitle bigger, but still nice product.

Beautiful colors, fit a regular size.

Works well with pen

I have the actual Jinhao fountain pens who are the same makers of the ink and I really like their products. The pens are well made and sturdy and not a cheap piece of crap like so many on here for sale. The ink flows very nicely with the pen and dries quickly so there are no worries about smearing or smudges on the parchment or just regular paper. I love the color varieties and calligraphy is a hobby I really enjoy. I still write letters to family all over the world in the same hand our ancestors wrote in 250 plus years ago, as do they. So these are personal and physical keepsakes that computers can't give you. I have letters from over 250 years ago from my ancestors that I keep in acid free binders in my cedar chests. It's honestly very cool to physically touch something that came from your ancestors 250+ years ago that my family and I can pass along to our children and keep it going from generation to generation. So I really depend on a good quality product and own several different styles of the Jinhao fountain pens.

These blue refills were 2.6 as advertised and fit my pen perfectly. I ordered red ones though and they were different sized even though they were supposed to be the same so FYI. The blue ones are a perfect 2.6 fit but the red not so much.

dosent work for fountain pens

Nice colors. Easy to install. Pretty colors!

The blue ink in this set of inks is very good quality, maybe as nice as Waterman Serenity Blue (except Waterman bottled ink comes with the bonus of excellent bottles, almost worth the price of a Waterman bottle of ink even without the ink). A couple others are pretty good as well. Black is pretty serviceable, though I'd take Waterman Intense Black or (especially) Aurora Black instead any day of the week. The green and orange inks, on the other hand, seem anemic on paper, and they rob the fountain pen writing experience of some of its smoothness. They feel "dry" and rough, and can probably just be thrown away without really missing anything. Of the inks in this set, I'd only bother buying the black (which you can get in cartridges without any other colors for dirt cheap as well) to give away to people who need some emergency ink or something like that, or the blue if I could get it without the rest of the colors because the Jinhao blue ink is quite nice and it's dirt cheap for cartridge ink.In practice, I might buy more black to give away, as I mentioned above, but I'm likely to just buy Waterman Serenity Blue for my blue ink, and use Aurora Black (my overall favorite ink so far) in my everyday writer.Given the cheap price for this, the "value for money" should be five stars, but the fact a third of the ink I got is borderline unusable suggests I should remove one star from the value rating for these inks. Because of that, a "quality" rating should be lower than the "value for money", "presentation", and "easy to use" ratings I gave this ink, but Amazon doesn't at this time offer a "quality" rating category. It's reflected in my three-star overall rating.