Digital BW, The Print

Keith,

Fair comment, but I think you replied to the wrong email I sent! The one you 
replied to referred to the details of how to refill the trickier Epson 
carts! Not exactly supporting Epson there was I?

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Editor, P.O.V. Image Service" <editor@...>


Not to make an important point glibly, but as I recall it (over the
years), you've consistently defended EPSON's  (razor/blade) sales model:
"illegal tying" included.

So, IMHO, your supposed defense of  intellectual property here seems
more incidental, fortuitous, and even chimeric than genuine.

While you are sober and even-handed on other points, your handling of
and analysis of issues relating to issues relating to EPSON in my memory
seem to come down always on the side of EPSON, particularly when it
relates to allowing them to choose any business model they please or
their responsibilities to consumers.

That makes your current defense of "intellectual property" seem more
than a tad suspect, and perhaps, less grounded in principle than legal
and marketplace rationality.  Unless we are going to accept complete
laissez faire marketplace as a viable option -- As an aside: given
modern corporate market power, only a complete ignoramus could believe a
laissez faire system is even distantly viable. So, I DO NOT think you,
or any serious reader, REALLY believes in that (except perhaps in some
theoretical utopian \ufffdriginal position" dreamworld)...

Bob Frost wrote:

>Greg,
>
>Are they like these ? (for the 2100/2200/1800/2400/etc)
>
>http://www.digital4to.com/
>
>The 'Anatomy', 'Rheology', and 'Repletion' sections give the full details 
>of
>the construction, problems, and refilling techiques.
>
>Bob Frost.