Digital BW, The Print

Frank,

Good question.

We are in Vermont. We have no sewage other than a septic field and our
water supply through a spring and a dug well. So we have to have a
zero-impact footprint at this location. And the problem with recycling
an original EPSON Ultrachrome color ink cartridge is the 3% dye EPSON
indicates they use on their MSDS. Dye prevents us from using water to
clean their color carts as dye can not be filtered economically from
waste water. 

While we can fill an EPSON brand 2400 color cartridge with our new
color ink, we can not clean it and fill it with Piezography ink. Not
here. That would make too much pollution.  HOWEVER, and that's a big
however, we CAN refill an existing Piezography cartridge with
Piezography ink. That's not a problem and it's not illegal. Also our
cartridges are really sturdy and they were designed for refilling.
Would not make it a more expensive product either.

Chips can be reset for many many times and because the chip itself is
not in question and they are still able to be imported if needed. We
built our filling equipment to be low-impact so its easy to change
inks in about 3 minutes and the clean up uses a few ounces of water.
We're in a perfect position to do this.


regards,

Jon


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Frank Jay
<frankjay02@...> wrote:
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> Jon, 
>   when I go target shooting and use wadcutters, I get a discount on
my pack of 50 when I return a pack of 50 spent shells. the shells can
be used I believe 4-5 times depending on how the metal holds up. The
reloader saves money, and I Make money...we are both happy. 
>       If you, as a person in the ink business, were to give a dollar
amount credit if someone returns a used cart for a refilled cart, or
some process of that nature, how would that affect you as inkmaker and
us as end users. . Does'nt this law prohibit  only new imports?
>    
>   I do not know how many times a chip can be reset or a cart
re-loaded but could not some workaround be figured out using those
carts already in use in the US or is there a whole other more
complicated legal issue at play here.
>   just my two cents
>   Frank in NJ