A new reason not to buy epson...

[me]

And the absurd problems with Lexmark printer ink prices should wipe them out,
but people are ignorant <sigh>

Their el-cheapo machines may not be up to much but they fit a certain
market. There are a lot of people who, after an initial flurry of
playing with their new machine, will be printing less than 100 pages a
year and at that sort of level they probably make economic sense.
Obviously Lexmark thinks so too!

 

[SleeperMan]

SleeperMan wrote:



And I'm using an i9900 with after market ink and no problems what so
ever. Let that fool of a moron buy oem carts. Serves his
stuck-on-stupid ass right to have to pay for the vacations of the top
Canon execs. What a loser he is.
Frank

right

 

[SleeperMan]

Frightening when you consider that Canon buys it from a company they
won't name, so you have no idea what you're buying, for about $1 per
litre. Just like any compatible brand ink. Then puts it in cheap, low-
tech, miniscule, plastic containers, relabels them and then sells
them to us for the equivalent of about $2000 per liter. What just
happened here? How is this not robbery? How is it they worry if
anyone else is making cartridges yet turn a blind eye when they pick
our pockets. Oh, I see, as long as it's not their pockets that are
being picked.

Andrew

that's why most we can do (and what we SHOULD do) is boycote OEM ink and use
aftermarket one...

 

[Jim McColl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060222/tc_pcworld/124814

I would rather pay a fair price up front for a reliable printer. I bought a
new Epson C84 three years ago for less money than it would have cost to
replace the cartridges in my HP 895. So, another. piece of waste to
landfill. To replace the cartridges in the C84, Staples wanted to charge
$95.00 Canadian with tax. I do a fair amount of printing, so the ongoing
cost of running this priner would be horrendous if I kept buying these
cartridges. I buy compatible cartridges for this printer for about $40.00
including tax and shipping. I am quite happy with the performance of these
cartridges

The whole buisiness model of selling these printers under cost and then
couging the public on consumables has got to be revisited. Especially when
it has gotten to the point that a new printer (with cartridges included)
costs less than the replacement cartridges

It is bad for the environment and bad for the companies and the consumer.
How to make this happen is another matter.

 

[measekite]

Andrew McLean wrote:



that's why most we can do (and what we SHOULD do) is boycote OEM ink and use
aftermarket one...

I THINK YOU IDIOTS SHOULD BOCOTT OEM PRINTERS. GO BUY AN AFTERMARKET
PRINTER AND USE THEIR AFTERMARKET INK

 

[measekite]

Frank wrote:

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE
YOU ARE STUPID.. I TAKE VACATIONS WITH THOSE EXECS HA HA HA HA