Digital BW, The Print

If true, then the Xerox project people were babes in the woods and in
wayyyyy over their heads. Anyone with even an ounce of experience in
sales or service at Xerox would have known better. Xerox labored on
for several decades under consent decrees from the US goverment as
regards the sale of consumable supplies. eg: It is considered
restraint of trade to interfere in any way with 3rd party suppliers of
consumables.
No one considering prior history at Xerox would for a second have
thought they could count on ink sales for all the profits.
Of course that presupposes common sense on the part of the corporate
animal, something often in short supply.

Regards
Duane



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Martin
Carrington" <martinc@s...> wrote:
> Zerox had a brief excursion into the color inkjet market and a 
> friend of mine at Zerox stated that their printers were loss leaders 
> and the profot was projected on inks. For Epson printers at the 
> lower end of the range this is likely also true but not I am sure 
> for the $600+ 'prosumer' printers.
> 
> If you have an Epson C86 (?) with rebates the printer is free in San 
> Diego. That's what killed the Zerox printers, to gain sales they 
> rebated printers to such a degree that the printers cost less than 
> the replacemnet ink cartriges and sneaky folks were buying complete 
> printers, taking out the cartridges as throwing away the printers!!
> 
> Seems unfair to consumers for Epson to kill aftermarket inks when 
> printers without them struggle to attain reasonable B+W (without a 
> RIP). Of course Epsons reply might be to trash one's 2200 and buy a 
> 2400!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Martin
>