Digital BW, The Print

Things like tyres are universal, but there is still an amazing amount of 
other fixtures and fittings that the makers (assemblers?) have made for them 
to their own specifications - Lucas electronics springs to mind - and so are 
only available from them until their "copyright" if you like expires and the 
real manufacturers canthen either sell direct or to other third parties. To 
echo your sentiments however, we have had the situation where "similar" 
parts are available from overseas though, which from what I have read of 
this thread is the way that most American Epson users will go, by way of 
private imports.

Tony.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Brown" <baffin@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re:MIS Newsletter


How is it possible that in the UK that car manufactures have an absolute 
monopoly for two or three years for spare parts of a newly introduced car 
model, when all of the parts are not made in the UK?


---- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tony Wells
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 11:57 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re:MIS Newsletter


  Just to pick up on one point here Mr Roark, though not contentiously. Here
  in the UK the car manufacturers have either a 2 or 3 year absolute 
monolpoly
  of spare parts for any new car model they introduce, before the third 
party
  suppliers can kick in. This is mostly servicing parts such as oil filters
  and also silencers (mufflers?) from what I can gather, by the way. They 
key
  thing being irrrespective of any monoploy issues that any of the group
  members may have over this, surely a similar situation could apply to
  printer cartridges, whereby such as Epson could be the sole supplier for a
  set period of time when they introduce a new model before the market is up
  for grabs, so as to be able to recoup their development costs? Or don't
  printers last that long? Just an idea to throw into the pot ....

  Tony Wells.

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