OT: Court rules against Lexmark in printer case

[Matthew Carpenter]

Michael Hipp wrote:

> Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> On a related MOT -- I saw an article this morning about people going 
>> after
>> HP for putting drop- dead times in their printer cartridges (e.g. they
>> won't work after a certain date regardless of whether they've been 
>> used).
>
>
> Is this for real!?!? This would mean a lot of those times I thought 
> the cartridge had dried up was actually just a time bomb. Sign me up 
> for a class action.
>
> Is there a "good actor" in the printer marketplace? Lately I've been 
> going with Epson for inkjets.
>
> Michael
>
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I've been pretty happy with my Epson C84, with a couple exceptions.  The 
most notable exception is that their kigh quality comes from fine, 
rather expensive ink which other vendors' C84 ink seems to plug up.  I 
currently have a nonfunctional printer I'm trying to clean up.  :(
But the quality was good, I've been using CUPS over the network for this 
printer (impossible for some deskjets).
Let me reiterate: But Epson's ink.  It's worth it.

Before buying this printer I spent some time with a Canon which proved 
difficult with existing drivers.  I could almost make it work, but not 
quite very well.  Searching the 'net showed me Epson's relative support 
for OSS but Canon's flagrant disregard to our existence.
Thanks important to me as well.

-- 
Matthew Carpenter 
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