Digital BW, The Print

I have also had contact off list from Keith Cooper who is based in the UK
and you both site Lyson as a UK company which is, of course, true.
I have various doubts about the Lyson product which arise from the many
conversations on this site. Keith was quick to reassure me and I might be
so. 

I was responding to a thread about anti trust and competition...
My point was really this:

Competition has to be real and visible.  It isn't enough (so it would seem)
to have an elite group of users valuing the special virtues of the pigment
inks and so on.  For real competition we have to get the stuff into the high
street (oops, downtown/mainstreet). Ideally I should be able to walk into PC
World (or whatever you call it) and have choice. Real choice.  Only then
will the prices come down.

It is a strange thing but even though Lyson is a UK company we still seem to
be paying pound for dollar and we don't have the shipping or duty to pay.
So I guess Lyson just think we are daft enough to pay up...

Now, the thing that really impresses me is that I have had so many kind
responses and no horrid ones (yet?)

I do like this site, especially when the exchanges remain civilized (in the
uk we use a lot of z's!).

Time for bed
TTFN
Simon
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Simon Whitehead
s.whitehead@iee.org

> From: "Bob Frost" <bobfrost@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 17:35:30 +0100
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] OEM Ink Pricing & Econ 101
> 
> Simon,
> 
> Lyson is a UK company based in Stockport, Cheshire. Their Lyson inks are
> mainly marketed through Marrut (Marrut.co.uk). So no problems with delivery
> or duty etc.
> 
> MIS will send you inks, fairly quickly in my limited experience, but whether
> you get charged VAT and import duty on items purchased in the USA seems to
> depend on the total cost of the package (which has to be declared by the
> supplier on the package). A £40 set of cartridges seems to escape duty, but
> if you purchase several hundred pounds worth of stuff from the States, UPS
> or Fedex will later send you a bill for about 25% of the cost (as I've just
> found out!). I haven't found a UK distributor for MIS inks yet - anyone know
> if there is one?
> 
> Bob Frost.