Digital BW, The Print

Will do!

If you have contacts at Canon, you can probably tell them straight out that
a lot of users (and third party suppliers) would commute to supporting Canon
(and encouraging printer sales) if they followed up on the possibilities!
The fact that large corporations CAN use different laws in different
countries is all very real and possible for them, but perhaps they should
ask themselves (as in the case with Pelikan link you provided) if it is
sensible or a coherent strategy for them to do. If they allowed themselves
to 'allow' the third party element, they might have to raise prices
worldwide but it would open up major opportunites for them.

I agree with anti-piracy legal moves... but as long as a corporate body
ignores the fact that a large number of users can legally buy stuff easily
internationally it kind of defies the point, and it becomes 'corporate
nitpicking'. Whilst I would actually not like to see this happen, they
potentially could start a Canon-approved (Epson-approved, whatever-approved)
program where they could get $0.0x for every approved third party cart sold,
and whilst this would undoubtedly not be the same as the profit they make on
their own inks, it could still amount to millions of dollars. Wouldn't it?

I find the lack of parallels to the inkjet market interesting! We don't buy
a Kenwood kettle and expect to only be able to use it with Kenwood tea and
kenwood water. We don't buy a Ford with Ford-tyres (that all the mechanics
know are made by xxxxx) and a Ford-brand starter motor. We get a list of
parts that says it's a Lucas xxx motor (or whatever), and when we buy petrol
(gas) we might be told to look for 98RON unleaded, but not 'Ford unleaded'.
PlayStation games may have to be Sony approved, but they are not 'Sony'
games (well I'm sure Sony do rebrand like this, but, they don't expect to do
it all the time).

This is getting all a bit esoteric and probably not very B&W oriented... but
it still is just us wishing for companies to allow us to do easily for
ourselves, what they can't be bothered to do themselves!

Best,
nij





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Editor P.O.V. Image Service [mailto:editor@...]
> Sent: 21 April 2002 11:59
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Canon printers Print-Heads
>
>
> Nij,
>
> Can you ask your user what the spare printhead cost him, and which Canon
> division ?
>
> I need the info for a piece I am writing for Euro Distribution..
>
> Canon has been in no rush to get me the Euro pricing info... or to tell
> me whether the printhead return policy applies there..  No surprise, if
> the info from your user and the suit filing are correct..
>
> [Keith]
>