I have been using Epson printers (one c60 and one c66) for years. I buy all my cartridges from printpal.com for about 1/4 the cost of the Epson cartridges. Am very satisfied with their performance.
I made the mistake of getting a Lexmark printer/copier/scanner a couple of years ago - huge mistake - will "never" do that again. Poor performance and did not work with the printpal cartridges. I have 5 working computers (2 laptops) as of right now (AORN) in my home - all networked together. Four are running Win XP Home and the other one is "reserved" for experimenting with Linux. AORN, I have Xandros on it - works OK. Soon will try Suse 10.1, which I just downloaded. Have some questions - for another post. I am retired (73) and go clear back to the early days of DOS, so I am somewhat familiar with the command line rather than a GUI. Joe Takacs Russell wrote: > I can see where you're coming from, but from my point in view why would > you sell a piece of plastic with ink in it that cost the same amount as > something that is made up of wires and circuitry boards? The idea of > material and size doesn't match up to the price. If you would analyze > the whole scenario, why aren't they selling seats for cars at $23,000 > which is what a car goes for? This whole scenario was on the news one > time. They were having people who were ticked at the prices on the news. > They wound up selling the generic brands but even those prices were > raised to make up for the money that they lost (Seems like a coincidence > to me for microsoft, if you lose money somewhere, jack up the price on > the cheap stuff to make up for it.) I think the whole idea of selling a > printer cartridge at the same amount as a printer doesn't make sense. I > think they make the most important parts extremely expensive so that > we'll have to buy them otherwise we won't be able to use the second most > expensive. That's like selling a DVD for the same amount as the burner > itself. Or shall we say, in my case, an AMD processor for my computer at > 1.5ghz would cost almost the same amount as my computer itself. Which > brings me back to the amount and prices not matching. You have a 3inch > by 3inch circuitry board that costs the same amount as something that is > 17 inch x 23 inch? Looks like somebody's making allot of money conveniently. > > But in any ways, like you said, to keep this on topic, I think that > Linux would definitely beat Windows by a long shot because of Windows' > errors. > Russell > > Davey wrote: > >> Russell wrote: >> >> [snip] >>> Why >>> is it that a printer carterage costs as much as the printer itself? >> This one is easy, it is the Gillette Principal of Business: >> "Give away the razors in order to sell the blades" >> >> which translates to: >> >> "Give away the printers in order to sell the ink cartridges" >> "Give away the computers in order to sell more service & software" >> (see "King Gillette" >> <http://www.school-for-champions.com/biographies/gillette.htm >> <http://www.school-for-champions.com/biographies/gillette.htm>> ) >> >> This principal doesn't always work. Texas Instruments tried this with >> the old >> TI-99/4a home computer system in the early '80s. After rebate the >> computer was >> very cheap. They thought they would control all software & hardware >> for the >> system & make a killing (the computer for $50 and the disk drive for >> $500). It >> almost killed them instead. >> >> To keep this on topic & give a modern Linux example: IBM, Redhat and >> Novelle >> essentially follow this principal with Linux. They basically give away >> the op >> sys to sell the op sys services. It is about the only way to make >> money on Linux >> (and the GPL). >> >> Sincerely, >> WarpDavey >> -- >> "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Ben Franklin >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
