OT: Court rules against Lexmark in printer case

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>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.
>>
...
>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.

One major advantage of the HP printers is that they are designed so that
they work well even if used infrequently.  I probably use my HP Photosmart
once or twice a month, and have never had problems with ink drying up or
printing problems from lack of use.

>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.

Frankly I gave up trying to get my HP Photosmart and Scanjet scanner
working reliably on Linux, and use them from my G4 running OS X where
they're available from the Linux systems via CUPS.

Bill
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