Digital BW, The Print

Austin-

Your answer will be that the cart is designed to quit well before it 
is empty so you won't destroy the print head...it's all built into 
the pricing <g>.

That's only partly meant to be funny. Much as we groan about Epson 
policies etc., one has to admit they deliver a very reliable product. 
In this forum probably more than half use non-epson inks and we know 
what to expect and live with the issues that creates...the other 
99.9% of the world have no idea what to expect other than 
click "print" and a print comes out (usually without and idea about 
profiling or that paper choice even matters).

We're so involved with our printing that we make the mistake of 
thinking we must be the target market that Epson cares about...

Tom O'Connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Austin 
Franklin" <darkroom@i...> wrote:
> > >Have there been any lawsuits that you know of regarding ...
> > >Specifically the "chips that read empty and shut down the printer
> > >when half full"...  To me, that is an easily actionable 
item.  ...
> >
> > I practiced antitrust law for a long time for the FTC.  The Epson 
strategy
> > is close to what many in that field would call a "tying" 
arrangement.
> > "Tying" the sale of one "product" (perhaps ink) to the purchase 
of another
> > (for example, printer) was prohibited rather strictly at one
> > time.  However,
> > by the 1970s the wisdom of strictly enforcing this ban on tying 
had been
> > called into question.  By the 1990s, the U.S. Federal A.T. laws 
had
> > essentially been interpreted to throw that entire class of 
practices into
> > the general "rule of reason" category of Sherman 1.
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> My issue what NOT one of "tying", but of there still being 
some "reasonably
> usable" level of ink left in the cartridge, but the printer will 
not let you
> use that.  To me, that is fraudulent.  To sell a, say, 1oz ink 
cartridge
> that you can only use .6oz ink out of BY DESIGN.  That infuriates 
me.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin