Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
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Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
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Re: Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
#2How are companies operating in a competitive market able to get away with this blatantly anti-consumer behavior.
It's not like there are high barriers to entry in this market, nor there is any exclusive licensing or access hurdles -- like telecom spectrum, or fiber lines for ISPs. Nor are there any compatibility exclusions (proprietary connectors, protocols or walled gardens).
Re: Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
#3Anyone working on a free and open 3d printable printer? Let's just download this car already and begin ignoring these vampires.
Re: Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
#4Anyone working on a free and open 3d printable printer? Let's just download this car already and begin ignoring these vampires.
That would be great. I could finally start printing my own banknotes. :)
Re: Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
#5How are companies operating in a competitive market able to get away with this blatantly anti-consumer behavior. It's not like there are high barriers to entry in this market, nor there is any exclusive licensing or access hurdles -- like telecom spectrum, or fiber lines for ISPs. Nor are there any compatibility exclusions (proprietary connectors, protocols or walled gardens).
It is a dying market though.
Re: Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
#6Consumer grade printers are a barren wasteland of planned obsolescence and anti-consumer practices. I recommend everyone that needs a printer in their home spend the extra couple of hundred dollars and buy an office grade printer. The difference between our current HP OfficeJet color laser printer/scanner/copier (cost about $450) and our previous cheapo under $100 consumer grade ink jet printer is unbelievable. Well worth the extra cash and it’s a total workhorse that feels like it’ll last for years.
Re: Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
#7Anyone working on a free and open 3d printable printer? Let's just download this car already and begin ignoring these vampires.
Yeah, I'm ready.
Re: Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
#8How are companies operating in a competitive market able to get away with this blatantly anti-consumer behavior. It's not like there are high barriers to entry in this market, nor there is any exclusive licensing or access hurdles -- like telecom spectrum, or fiber lines for ISPs. Nor are there any compatibility exclusions (proprietary connectors, protocols or walled gardens).
US government willfully asleep at the wheel and not exerting anything more than minimum regulatory pressure.
Re: Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
#9How are companies operating in a competitive market able to get away with this blatantly anti-consumer behavior. It's not like there are high barriers to entry in this market, nor there is any exclusive licensing or access hurdles -- like telecom spectrum, or fiber lines for ISPs. Nor are there any compatibility exclusions (proprietary connectors, protocols or walled gardens).
It is a dying market though.
With al these planned obsolescense gimmicks I’d think the replacement market will be there quite a while.
Re: Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers
#10Consumer grade printers are a barren wasteland of planned obsolescence and anti-consumer practices. I recommend everyone that needs a printer in their home spend the extra couple of hundred dollars and buy an office grade printer. The difference between our current HP OfficeJet color laser printer/scanner/copier (cost about $450) and our previous cheapo under $100 consumer grade ink jet printer is unbelievable. Well…
I will view HP printers suspiciously if I'm ever in the market again, and I won't consider Canon unless everything else is a poor fit. Both brands just make it hard for no good reason. Canon in particular makes using their printers with anything other than Windows arbitrarily difficult.