Ink Cartidges
Someone want to clear this up for me? Does this make sense?
Epson said the lawsuits aren’t about keeping competing products out of the market.
“Epson believes that its ink-jet printers and genuine inks provide users with advantages in terms of print quality, durability and value for money, and as such welcomes fair competition in the marketplace,” said Bourne. “However, we have invested considerable resources into developing our unique technologies and will vigorously defend our intellectual property.”
All right. They say they aren’t trying to keep competing products out of the market, but that they will not hesitate to use every legal option to keep competing products out of the market.
I’ve never bought a third-party ink cartridge. To be honest, I’ve always been a little leary of them. But this makes me wonder. If Epson (or anyone else) can’t compete on the basis of having a quality product, but instead sue the competition so they can continue to sell ink cartridges as inflated prices, well, I suppose I’ve wasted my money.
Between this and my recent problems with my Epson, I think I’m going to avoid them in the future. Not that HP is much better.
June 16th, 2005 at 10:28 am
What about Canon, how do they add up?
Anyway. I bought a HP Printer for Stephanie a few weeks back and it only cost $40 which I found amusing as that is just a little more than and color and ink cartridge.