A package includes a packaging member; and an ink container which contains ink comprising pigment coloring material and solvent dispersing the coloring material and which has an ink supply port for permitting supply of the ink to an outside, wherein the ink container is mountable to an ink jet recording apparatus with the ink supply port at a lower position, the ink container accommodating an ink absorbing material for absorbing the ink and being provided with an air vent which is open for fluid communication between a space inside the ink container and ambience, and wherein a region tending to have a high coloring material density in the ink container is at a position generally diagonally opposite the ink supply port, wherein the ink container is in a first orientation which is different from a second orientation taken in use in the ink jet recording apparatus.