Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Editor P.O.V. 
Image Service" <editor@p...> wrote:

> HP and Lexmark are showing unrestrained greed here, 

It's not unrestrained.  It's restrained by the marketplace.  If 
consumers don't like it they won't buy their products.  That's how 
it's supposed to work.

No printer maker has anything even CLOSE to a monopoly, so no 
printer maker can afford to adopt a product or pricing policy that 
would alienate potential customers.

I'm tired of people saying "I'm a Republican, BUT ..."  You either 
believe in the power of the market to regulate business decisions or 
not.  I DO believe in the market, or at least I have more faith in 
the market than I do in government bureaucrats.

You're advocating what Ted Kennedy does: using the power of the 
government to advance YOUR special interests (third-party inks).

I am NOT making this up:   As we speak Ted Kennedy is proposing 
legislation in the Senate to ban a private wind-turbine farm off the 
coast of Cape Cod because it will ruin the view from his Hyannis 
beach estate.   That's the same thing YOU'RE doing.