Digital BW, The Print

> The one thing they can't stop us from doing is using their older 
> printers with other inksets and I for one will continue to do just 
that.
> 
> John


They keep trying. Ink chips, and special carts play a role in that 
defense. If they wanted to make their new printers third party 
friendly, they would have used pumps for the ink, instead of 
pressurized carts. Remember the way Encad used to supply inks, and a 
few other high end machines. Bottle feeds give too many options, and 
not enough profits.

And BTW, MIS buys many of their inks from Image Specialists. They also 
claim to make some of their inks, but no one I have talked to really 
knows which ones. I suspect that they are mixing the UT inks in house, 
and maybe some of the dye inks, but it is purely speculation.