Re: printer recommendation needed
Re: printer recommendation needed
- Subject: Re: printer recommendation needed
- From: "Adriano Von Markendorf" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:32:38 -0200
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In a message dated 2/7/02 10:58:05 AM, email@hidden writes:
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>Hey!!! I've got a great idea: probably making the cartridges removable
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>and
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>replaceable adds cost into a printer design. Contacts, cartridge
detection
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>sensors, cartridge replacement logic in the printer, etc.
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>So, they could basically build disposable printers, ink included. No
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>"cartridge" but fixed tanks. The saved cost could allow to put three to
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>four
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>times as much ink fluid in the printer than in a disposable cartridge.
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One theory of house design is that it should be optimized so that homes
last
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1.5 times the mortgage period, or a little over 20 years before requiring
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replacement. Living in an area where many homes are a hundred, or even two
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hundred years old, I certainly have a different viewpoint... but if you
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accept the idea a one year warranty, and an average life to print head
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clogging of 1.5 years, then Epson has this pretty well optimized.
Calculate
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the average consumer ink usage in that length of time, and you could def
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inately fit that amount of ink into the printer as a sealed unit. Include
the
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required amount of paper, and you could sell a bundled system in a box not
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much larger that the current one. And with an honest price, not based on
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underpricing the printer and overpricing the consumables.
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Sound like science fiction? Epson has already released an inkjet system
that
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has the ink, paper, service, and equipment costs rolled into one price;
not a
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sale price but a lease price. Consumables are ordered for you by the
printer,
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which is hooked to a phone line, and calls in for them automatically. They
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then appear at your door on the delivery truck; all you do is push the
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"print" button.
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C. David Tobie
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Design Cooperative
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email@hidden
Live in United States is really a great deal !
My third world country, don't allow such thing a such price...
- a little bit jealeous -
Adriano von Markendorf email@hidden
"I-C-Cm vitamin's inside" Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
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