Digital BW, The Print

I think what the 3rd party industry has been flirting with for many
years is a really good continuous flow system that is easy to fill and
does not clog. It seems to me that is REALLY the answer and it never
seems to happen. Come on, it can't be THAT complicated to make a good
one if they really wanted to. That way the cart design/patent issue is
completely irrelivant and this ridiculous process of taking apart
carts and refilling/rechipping them or producing machine compatable
carts is totally eliminated. But at that point a lot of even the 3rd
party resellers make LESS MONEY when quantity amounts of ink are
bought at a reasonable price. They don't like that either and why
would they? The smaller the carts the more money they all make.

So, selling small quantities of ink is what ALL of them are in the
business for,especially for all these little dinky printers, and they
ALL encourage that. The thing to do is buy it by the gallon and say to
hell with it all. 

John  



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg"
<dfaprinting@...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@...m, "Editor, P.O.V. 
> Image Service" <editor@> wrote:
> >
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> 
> That just means that the next round of Epson printers will be really 
> refill unfriendly. The carts for the C86 (cx6600) are not impossible 
> to refill, just not what I would call simple. I haven't been able to 
> get any other versions to check, but imagine that they will be 
> similar. If the carts from the 2400 or similar to the c86, then 
> refilling them with Epson ink from the 4800 would be a pretty easy 
> task, once you build a machine to do the messy parts. It's cleaning 
> out the old Epson ink to make room for the new third party ink that 
> is the real big problem!
>