It's no secret the Pilot CON-40 is not a great converter for fountain pen ink, but once you learn the trick to filling them almost full it's not quite so bad. I still don't like them, but this makes them a little more tolerable.

This video is one of a few I watched when trying to figure it out:

Three clear "demonstrator" fountain pens side-by-side: A Pilot Prera and two Pilot Kakunos. Only the main bodies of the pens are visible with a converter inside.  Each of the three pens has a Pilot CON-40 converter inside which is almost completely full of ink.  From left to right the ink colors are:  - Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Budo (Purple) - Diamine Writer's Blood (Dark Red) - Diamine Sunshine Yellow (Yellow with a slight orange tone)

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