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Re: [Digital BW] 2200 Printer

2002-07-12 by Robert Morrison

On 7/12/02 9:13 AM, "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...> wrote:

> Larry, the 2200 has individual carts, does the C80 also?
> 
> In any art store you can get a pint of black india ink for $7 or so.
> Makes you wonder about epsons ink prices even more. You can get a pint
> of MIS inkjet black ink for around $36 or so; epson's prices seem more
> than a ripoff, they're outrageous.

Epson pays for their printer/ink R&D and subsidizes the cost of their
printers with their "outrageous" consumable pricing (actually EAM $$$ seems
pretty unoutrageous to me!).  If they charged you $36 a pint for ink...you
wouldn't have a printer to use in 3 years.

Robert

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