Re: [greenyes] Fwd: A Message From Epson

[Alan Muller <amuller@no.address>]

Hi Jenny and others:

I don't know too much about this part of the printer business, and I have 
no time/energy to get into the controversy in a major way.

But I would speculate that for Epson the profits are in the consumables 
rather than in the printers themselves.  So they probably have an incentive 
to (1) keep the cartridges from becoming a commodity--that is, available 
from multiple sources at competitive pricing, and (2) to destroy the 
cartridges to keep people from having an opportunity to figure out how to 
refill them.

If they can pretend at the same time to be doing good works, it's just a 
bonus for them.

You are quite right that their defense of incineration is just the usual 
bullshit.

Laser printer people (or at least HP) have been taking empty cartridges 
back for years.  Do we know what gets done with these?  I have noticed that 
the cores have little value locally, and clones seem as common as rebuilts.

Regards,

Alan