Waterman Ballpoint Pen Refills

Standard Waterman pen refills

Waterman offers several specific models of fine-writing fountain, rollerball, and ballpoint pens in its lineup, as well as ink refill cartridges for its rollerballs and ballpoints. As with many pen refills that are cross-compatible with brands other than their own, Waterman refills also include ballpoint cartridges available from Monteverde, another producer of fashionable, high-end pens. Monteverde Soft Roll™ refills for Waterman are engineered to the same high-quality standards, consisting of nickel-plated brass cartridge tubes with Swiss-made precision tips.

Ballpoint cartridges with both fine and medium tips

Unlike many clickable open-and-close writing instruments, such as retractable rollerball pens and ballpoint pens, Waterman pens use stylish endcaps to protect the writing tip when not in use. Waterman ballpoint pen refills insert easily and snugly into the unscrewed barrel when they need to be replaced, without any need for stemmed springs. Refill cartridges come in both 0.7 mm medium tips and 0.5 mm fine tips. Medium tips provide a bolder, more fluid stroke, so they’re ideal for writing letters on high-quality stationary. Fine tips provide a more accurate stroke, so they’re excellent for jotting down numbers, writing in the margins of books, or engaging in finely detailed drawing.

Types of cartridge ink

Unlike the ink for gel pens, which consists of pigments suspended in a water-based gel, ballpoint pen ink is a mixture of pigment and oil. Gel ink flows more freely on paper, while ballpoint ink dries more quickly on paper. Monteverde refills for Waterman pens also include another type of cartridge, the USA® Capless Gel, that converts the ballpoint pen into a steel-tip gel-ink instrument. For its standard Soft Roll cartridges, Monteverde uses low-viscosity oil-based ink that mimics the free flow of gel ink. The ballpoint refills come in blue and black ink. Monteverde refills for Waterman ballpoints come in other interchangeable colors:

• Green ink
• Red ink
• Pink ink
• Turquoise ink
• Purple ink

Refill packages

Like many bulk ballpoint pens that are available in a variety of package sizes, many pen refills are available in different quantity packages. Refills for Waterman ballpoint pens are available not only in single packs, but also in packs of six for each selected color.