Digital BW, The Print

There once was a mighty copier company that used a similar policy to protect their service business. It got hauled before an even mightier agency of the US government for such nefarious deeds. The end result was to overturn such policy and they were forced to make all parts directly available to anyone who actually owned one of their machines as well as any service manuals and necessary software and tools for service. Of course, they got to charge for the privilege and things weren't cheap. Still, it did solve a serious problem for some people.

If one has deep enough pockets they could probably sue the pants off an offending party using historic precedence and might well win.It's likely easier to just, along with others in the same boat, take your money elsewhere and watch them go slowly out of the professional market due to their own terminal stupidity.

Notice: I am not a lawyer and take no responsibility for any conclusions draw from the above comments. I do ,however, have personal knowledge and direct experience with the matters to which I referred.

Regards,
Duane



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john" <deanwork2003@...> wrote:
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> What is really useless though is Epson's practice of cutting off the supply of parts for our older printers so we can't keep them running.
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> I called Compas Micro last week to see about ordering a print head for my 9600 so I can have one to keep me going when my head eventually goes out, now that we are locked out of the new Epson's for alternative 3rd party BW inks.
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> The guy as Compas was really nice but said, sorry we can't sell them anymore, Epson won't let us. I said why. He said, well they say that people were using them for the wrong reason.  I'm serious, the wrong reason,  :-). Which is, keeping our printers going so we don't have to buy new ones that we don't want or need. So keeping me from replacing my head in the 9600 is supposed to convince me to buy a 9900? I don't think so.
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Dave <cowcreekroad@> wrote:
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