Suck up the few extra dollars and buy the pen from an actual pen dealer

"damn I just spent 20 dollars on ONE pen"

I've tried cheap (under $12 dollars) and expensive ink (over $18 dollars) on it, and I have to constantly prime it to get it working

The nib is very smooth on nearly all paper surfaces, even cheap-o bulk size paper you'll find around the workplace

I write without issue in Moleskine and Livescribe notebooks, as well as in college assignment books and journals, classroom and corporate handouts, and on generic 3-ring binder paper

I did that as well as giving the pen a good shake to get the ink flowing and it worked like magic

I prefer the cartridge system/nib in this one as well as it seems to not leak as much as the pilot ones do.

The result is that it doesn't feel nearly as smooth as it would otherwise, and it doesn't write nearly as consistently.

The point is I love him just as much as I would love a child produced by my biological brother.

The ink that comes with the pen(in my case a blue disposable cartridge) is kind of light and doesn't write nearly as well as the noodlers.

Also the line won't look as elegant as with other fountain pens.

A minimal amount of pressure is require to mark paper and it does not bleed through as bad as I thought it would

Its nice, but does not write nearly as well as my pilot metropolitan (cheaper and made of metal)