The great ink conspiracy

["Jim Wingo" <jimw203@mindspring.com>]

Lest we begin to believe that Epson is alone in seeming to derive the bulk
of their revenue from consumables, I refer other readers to a daily
newsletter I get, called LockerGnome. 

In the June 13th issue, a portion reads in part: "One subscriber, Brian
Eickholt, brings forth a word of caution: 'HP has recently been fixing the
lower-priced printers so their consumables don't last as long. The three HP
printers I know about are the 612C, 812C and the 940. All three of these
printers use a special black cartridge that looks like a normal cartridge,
but only holds 21ml of ink in comparison to 42ml of ink for the standard
cartridges. The printers are designed to only accept these special
cartridges and cannot use the standard cartridge. The kicker is that both
cartridges usually cost the price at the store, so in the end, you pay
twice as much for the same amount of ink. I am not sure about other
manufacturers of printers if they use similar tactics on their lower priced
printers.' " Following this is a similar venting about Lexmark. If
interested, others may read the full issue at
http://www.lockergnome.com/issues/daily/20020613.html

Jim Wingo


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