Digital BW, The Print

On Nov 14, 2007 7:13 AM, john kelly <djon43@...> wrote:

> Asking the European Union to lower the bar to
> accommodate  inferior "competitors" and to punish
> Epson/Canon/HP for excellence and innovation is the
> old-time bureaucratic thinking that contributed to the
> collapse of the Soviet Union.


Nothing like the spectre of communism to prove you are right.


> Why the concern about Chinese-manufactured plastic
> products? Ink's more important.
>

Since we can't just pour ink in the printer, the plastic product you mention
is inseparable part of the equation.


> Wouldn't it be better to ask consumer watchdog
> agencies to punish companies that distribute
> printer-damaging, clogging inks, and cartridges that
> commonly fail, and CIS systems that damage print
> heads, than to to penalize companies that make good
> products?
>

Sounds good. Does this by definition automatically include
Canon/Epson/HP/Lexmark and exclude everyone else?

Perhaps we should just invade China?


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