[NTLUG:Discuss] Hello and Printers

[David I S Mandala]

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 13:41 -0800, Steve Baker wrote:
[snip]
> Ignore the price of the printer.  Consider only the price of the ink!
> 
> With printers costing around $100 to $150 - but some ink carts coming
> in at $40 - the cost of the ink totally dominates all other considerations.
> 
> Some printers come with full ink carts - others come with tiny 'demo'
> cartridges that need replacing almost immediately.  Since that first
> set of ink refills can cost half the price of the printer - you need
> to be VERY aware of the issue!
> 
> This is doubly true now that refilling ink carts is made almost
> impossible and making cheap clones is forbidden under the DMCA or
> some such BS.
[snip]

I can't argue that it can be hard to refill ink carts, Lexmark lost the
case so making cheap clones is not forbidden under the DMCA. The court
said that you can not use the DMCA to make a monopoly and exclude
competition.
 
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