Sadly, you don't see these kinds of pens in wide use over here in the States that much, except maybe in the once in a while formal or business settings, or if the odd someone just uses them for personal reasons. When looking into how to improve penmanship, almost everyone that had anything to say about it said, "Get a fountain pen and some decent paper that can take the ink." This pen writes really smooth. I'm kinda sad I didn't have one until now. Feels like I missed out in a way.
This pen came with one black ink cartridge and a bulb-type converter to draw ink into the pen from a bottle, but it doesn't hold that much (maybe around 0.2 or 0.3 ml?). I might invest in a larger capacity converter with the screw-type piston mechanism to draw up ink and use the bulb when cleaning the pen. Might pick up a few extra carts just for good measure too.