Sadly the US and particularly conservative administrations seldom enforce the laws against tying. The difference between the US and European Epson operations reflects the differences in law enforcement of these concepts.
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 6:06 AM, rdeloe1@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Thanks for the ideas and suggestions folks.
Paul, I hope that your legal perspective proves correct. I expect it would take a law suit, but waiting for that to happen is chancy. As I understand it the P800 lock down is limited to the US, so buying a European P800 is an option for some of us (albeit an awkward one if you live in North America).
The 3880 I was after (the one with the 150C error) has sold already but a search this morning of the classifieds shows several reasonably priced options that don';t seem to have similar problems. Getting one of those, cleaning it up, and putting it in storage seems to be the way to go.