At 04:38 AM 6/28/2001 -0400, George@Orwellian.Org wrote:

From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com> # # No need, you can buy these kits for about $100 (by the time you've # used up the initial ink supply included with the kit you've save # about $300 by their reckoning) from MIS http://www.inksupply.com.

Heh.

http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/arcnew.html # # We have brand new cartridges that are pre filled with the archival # ink. These are available for the all Epson printers except the # 777, 870, 875, 1270, and 2000P. # # Epson has put a chip on the cartridges for # these printers that prevents refilling.

Elsewhere they have a link for defeating the chip.

An interesting tech war that gets little or no press. steve