Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, jeffrey sutton 
<jeffdsutton@...> wrote:
>
> Or maybe we should begin thinking about moving away
> from Epson (wouldn't want to use the term boycott),
> but Epson is the thousand pound gorilla in the
> industry and it thinks it will get away with
> intimidating third party vendors.
> 
>  This quote is from an earlier PC World article - "The
> lawsuits are not an effort to stamp out the
> third-party cartridge market and are aimed only at
> companies that have infringed Epson's patents, says
> Alastair Bourne, a spokesperson for Seiko Epson in
> Tokyo." If you believe that ...
> 
> Even though I have historically used Epson printers
> exclusively they are making hard for me not to look at
> their competitors with this practice.
> 
> 
> "Lots of companies make ink cartridges [for Epson
> printers.] If it's fair competition we have no
> complaints."
> 


Keep in mind, HP did the exact same thing a couple of years ago. Same 
exact reasons, someone violated their patents. And now that they are 
binging pigment printers to market, I might actually have to consider 
one when HP makes them larger format (only a matter of time).

If you want to use a bulk ink in an Epson printer, there will always 
be choices. One of those is the CIS from Ink Republic. I sent them an 
email about a different topic, and also asked them about this new 
Epson lawsuit.They said that since them were granted a patent for 
their system, they should be safe. And that so far they have not 
received anything from Epson that would indicate there is going to be 
a problem. I'm not trying to advertise for them, just giving you one 
of the options. I'm sure that there will be other cart designs that 
will eventually be created to avoid a patent conflict, since as you 
know, there is MONEY involved with these after market items. And big 
money at that.