Herbin 50 ml Cleaning Solution for Fountain Pen &12 x 16 cm Blotting Paper, 10 Sheets

Had four fountain pens to clean. Rinsed out the old ink with warm water then filled each pen with this liquid and left for 5 minutes. Emptied then rinsed again. Each pen now writes smoothly, like new. This cleaner is not cheap but is highly effective.

Amazing! In 5 minutes, it restores your blocked pen to pristine writing order. Something hours of flushing and soaking with water couldn't do as I refuse to dismantle my pens.

Works great, but I have two pieces of criticism:1- there's no 'how-to'. I looked it up on YouTube no problem but it would be nice to have the manufacturer's own advice.2- it would be great if the package contained an eye dropper or a drip nozzle. As is, it's very easy to pour way too much liquid.The bottle is made of plastic, which kind of disappointed me. Maybe I'm getting too used to nice glass bottles with my Herbin inks.The amount of liquid is a little on the low side, but it's quite cheap here so I can't complain too much.

I have owned a Parker Centennial Duofold for 30 yrs, which over the last 10yrs has had very little use. Every now and again I have dug it out in the hope that 'this clean' will finally make it a pleasure to write with again. Each time has had no effect. It still remained 'scratchy' with intermittent ink flow, meaning having to use the plunger to squeeze a little ink out, all god for 5 minutes and then same again.Now I do know the tricks to filling, especially leaving it nib down after filling for a while to let ink migrate to the nib, all to no avail. Came across this by mistake and thought why not. Now don't get me wrong, it is expensive, but not as expensive as the pen, or the cost of sending it away to be 'sorted', or to buy a replacement no matter how cheap.Anyway, bit the bullet even taking some of the reviews 'with a pinch of salt' as to it's effectiveness, but, wow is the only comment I can make. Left filled with fluid for an hour, cleaned with cold water, dried thoroughly then refilled and it really is like I remember when new. Beautifully smooth, no scratching (even with fine nib) consistent ink flow etc. I seriously doubt if Parker themselves could have serviced it better.So, in conclusion to me it is worth every penny and then some, would I use it on a 'cheaper' pen, definitely, as no matter how much a new pen will cost, this still works out cheaper. No to mention with a fountain pen there is a certain amount of 'bedding in' to your style of writing that you would have to go through again.Hope this helps, and yes I did buy it, it wasn't a freebie in exchange for a positive review :-)

I have 2 fountain pens, one a Montblanc, and after a period of storage both were not writing well. They were skipping and harsh to write with, noisy too.This product transformed both pens and it took but 5 minutes for each. Both now write properly.Can't recommend enough.

Seems to do the job cleaning nibs but need to pour a little amount into a separate dish or use a small syringe in order to keep the bottle fluid clean.

If you are assiduous about flushing your pens through with water – and perhaps a drop or two of detergent added, either every time you need to refill, and certainly on every change of ink colour, you may never need to use this. And, certainly, if you are only an intermittent fountain pen user, or possessor of a whole fleet of pens, it will be important to empty out and flush clean a fountain pen unlikely to be used for a while, as eventually remaining ink in the nib dries out, and THEN cleaning is more time consuming and may involve some kind of water holding squeezy device to really speed up flushing. And overnight soaking.There are many useful, instructive videos on pen maintenance.And then there is this expensive, marvellous speed up cleaning fluid for those who can’t be bothered with lengthy cleaning, or those who have a predilection for some of those marvellously deep purples and aubergines in ink shades, which seem to need a little more cleaning welly than other inksEven though (by all accounts, thanks to those instructive You Tubers) actually you can DIY your cleaning fluid with 10% ammonia solution, a squeeze of detergent and water, if you RARELY need this kind of hyperinflated price product, it makes better sense to get this rather than a large bottle of largely unused ammonia solution.And IF you still ‘preclean’ by flushing etc, you will only rarely need a small amount of this miraculously effective solution, and can decant your then ‘slight soiled’ used Herbin into another little bottle and have it for reuse a few times till it is too dirty. Keep your mother bottle clean!

I was about to take my 40+ year old Mont Blanc Meisterstuck in for a service, when I found this product on Amazon. Very easy and quick to use it has totally transformed my pen, which is back to its original smoothness and ink flow (as well as I can remember). Unconditionally recommended.