Digital BW, The Print

EPSON is getting what they deserve on this one. If they hadn't done 
everything in their power to prevent the average comsumer from refilling 
cartridges, the claim would be near moot. If you could easily refill a 
cartridge, the fact that it went empty and forced you to buy a new one, 
earlier than you actually needed to, would be nearly irrelevant.  It 
wouldn't much matter how much ink was still in a cartridge when it 
indicated "empty" if you could refill it.

It looks like the deception necessitated for keeping the cartridge 
profit margin is beginning to undercut the sales model they chose.

I can say there likely are more lawsuits coming aimed at other parts of 
their pricing model.  I believe EPSON even knows that (including some 
specific legal actions), as their own (Seiko-EPSON) recent stock 
prospectus / annual report notes that profits may fall if they are 
unable to protect their sales of  cartridges by excluding alternative 
cartridges/inks.

-- 
Keith

 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/
and  the Multiverse's largest Canon printer User  Community at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Canon-printers
"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"

 

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