Digital BW, The Print

Peter Nelson wrote:

>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Editor P.O.V. 
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>>a)    Prohibit sales in-state of printers designed to 
>>prohibit recycling of consumable components (i.e. chipped 
>>cartridges etc.)
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>What claptrap!
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>If the goal was truly recycling then Epson could simply be willing 
>to take back the old cartridges the way laser printer makers take 
>back theirs.
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Which happened in part because state governments mandated their own 
agaencies to recycle said components..

>If you are truly worried about consumers throwing out ink cartridges 
>containing toxic substances then make THAT illegal.   Here in MA 
>it's illegal to dispose of a CRT - contains lead - you have to take 
>it to a hazardous waste collection center.
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It's not just toxic substances, there are also no-biodegradable  parts 
that simply take up space in landfills.

>Your proposed legislation is typical of the socialists who make 
>policy in the EU - trying to tell companies how to run their 
>businesses and design their products. 
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No-one is telling them how to run their business, their only saying they 
can't sell it here if theydesign in methods to prohibit recycling.  No 
different in some sense than requiring a recycling surcharge on beer or 
soda bottles.

>  That's why the Eurozone has 
>a 12.5% unemployment rate!   It is no concern of the government 
>whether Epson makes chipped cartridges.   
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No, it's actually likely to ALLOW and encourage competition by 
increasing the actual market for 3rd party supplies.. Just as has 
happened in laser printers and copiers.

If you want to discuss this, please remain civil..

Oh yeah, don't go implying I'm a socialist... I'm actually a VERY 
fiscally conservative Republican.  ;-)

Beyond that, I'm a firm believer that the "Godwin rule" should be 
expanded to include people hurling the epithet of "socialist" and/or 
"communist."

BTW Peter, use 3rd party inks?  But like the market as is?  Bit of a 
hypocrite if that's so, aren't you? (It's ok for some to reap the 
benefits of a market in which the real costs are borne by the vast 
majority buying overpriced cartridges, right?)
Keith

 

"Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:

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"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"

 




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