Herbin21500T - Rollerball pen with cartridge, Transparent

I love Herbin ink. So finding there was a little Herbin fountain pen I had to try it. I love it! It's a great little pen, Nib is medium with a good flow and smooth, providing a nice amount of feedback. An all plastic transparent body and cap and posts very well. For a small pen the balance is very good.For the price a cracking pen.

Stated that it would come with a cartridge but it didn’t. Followed Amazon link to contact supplier but no reply.The pen itself is ok but very scratchy at first. It improved after some use but now it’s really squeaky when writing! I’m hoping that will stop with time.

I like the design of the pen; but it clearly has no cartridge, so it is transparently obvious that there is a problem to be overcome i.e. a lack of the fluid which enables a writer to convey his/her/its etc etc thoughts to paper. I have had to dig into my stores of writing eqipment to find a suitable cartridge of ink to fill the gap. Manuscript fits the bill. It's English, and so much better than a lot of the stuff from the Mandarin Empire. God save the King!

I really like this little pen now that I have used it for a while. However when I first got it I really wasn't keen. I found the rollerball to be very "scratchy" on the paper and it didn't write smoothly at all. Lots of notes later it has "bedded in" nicely and the ink flows at a smooth pace. I have used it with a small ink cartridge and the applicator which allows you to fill up from an ink bottle with equal results. With its lid off I find it a little too short, but by placing the lid on the top (ie the other end of the rollerball), it becomes the perfect size. I have read some reviews noting that the plastic lid has split but so far that hasn't happened to mine, and it is used every day.

I was wary of getting this as many reviewers had said how scratchy the rollerball is, but I'm glad I decided to try it for myself. I've loaded it with J. Herbin ink (scented lavender) and have found it nothing but a pleasure to use.Personally I have to "post the cap" (put the cap on the end of the pen) to make it longer as I have large hands and the pen is a little short if I don't, however it's still just long enough to be able to use. I find it a better weight posted as well as the pen is very light without the cap.The rollerball seems very smooth, granted it can be a little "creaky" on some strokes, but it's not a massive problem for me. For some reason a lot of rollerballs are a little noisy. As a fountain pen user I don't press down very hard anyway so maybe that is helpful in it not scratching as others have described.It lays down a good amount of ink, too much for some thinner paper, but fountain pens can do that as well, so it's not a problem with the pen itself (some paper is just made for ballpoints it seems).The clip is firm but not tight, so it holds well on just one sheet of regular A4 paper and is very smooth so doesn't tear when removed. It also held on well to the thick cardboard backing of a notebook and the thin plastic front cover as well.Overall I really like it and will definitely be getting more in the future.

There are multiple tiny holes in the cap and case that will cause any loose ink to leak out all over your fingers. Given that the short international cartridges don't properly connect and easily pop off it will leak into the pen. Then out through the holes staining fingers, papers and anything else nearby.An absolute waste of money!

Okay - so I knew that despite it stating METAL as the material, that this was a plastic pen - in fact the only metal parts are the nib, the clip and finial fitting and the metal ring between the nib section and the barrel - this falls off when you separate the two parts to put in a cartridge or use a filler. Note that this can't be directly converted to eye-dropper as there are three small holes at the end of the barrel section. As to length, the size given is with the cap on and without that the pen itself measures around 9.5cm.I haven't yet tried writing with the pen, but the nib seems reasonably smooth against paper and doesn't seem to catch but only time will tell. I mainly bought this as an experiment and to match with my Herbin inks - which are lovely.I have only given a 4 star rating as the description is mis-leading for those not familiar with the pen and also because the seller had applied a sticky label to the pen which covered part of the barrel and cap and meant I had to spend time cleaning off the sticky residue. As this is plastic, isopropyl would not be appropriate to remove this.Overall, if you are looking for a cheap, plastic pen, this seems okay, but note the size issue.

Im not sure I was expecting very much - but it works well and is very good value. Doesn't lay down to much ink so will not cause bleed through on most papers.

This is perfect for a purse or pocket. The nib is EF and writes fine without skipping or scratching.

Pequeña y portátil, muy bien

comme tout les produits Jacques Herbin , c'est super , en le nettoyant j'ai fait tomber la bille et j'ai plus qu'a en acheter un autre , mais c'est de ma faute , il écrit super bien

I own a lot of fountain pens--cheap ones and expensive ones. This looks like a nice little pen in photos. From the title "re-fillable fountain pen" I assumed it could be eye-droppered--that you could put ink directly into the pen. Why else call it re-fillable. I mean ALL fountain pens are re-fillable. Anyways, the pen can't be eye-droppered. Ink leaks out of the end. So it needs a mini cartridge or a mini-converter. I suggest you save you money an get a Jinhao 992 off Amazon for $2.00 with free delivery. It's more pen at a tenth of the cost. I feel like I threw money away on this purchase. I'm very disappointed that Herbin would put their name on this inferior product, especially at this price.

La penna è molto compatta ma non per questo è motivo di negatività; anzi, è comodissima da portare dovunque per fare qualche schizzo veloce o per prendere appunti.Il tratto è fine, si potrebbe comparare ad una fineliner 0.5-0.4NON ho riscontrato eccessiva fuoriuscita di inchiostro, scrive normalmente senza nessun tipo di impedimento.Consiglio di comprare questa penna, innanzitutto perché è unica nel suo genere, non è da tutti i giorni trovare una penna che usa cartucce come una stilografica, quindi fa risparmiare soldi se si usa un convertitore mini per stilografiche.Infine, voglio precisare che, a differenza delle altre recensioni su questo prodotto, la penna che ho ordinato è di ottima qualità e non presenta particolari negativi che fanno chiamare alla bufala.CONSIGLIO caldamente di comprare questa penna, anche perché è originale ed economica, cose che non sempre vanno d'accordo.