Epson Firmware Update - Now Cartridges Not Recognised

esuhl

krisdorey wrote: »

Why? Epson are well within their rights to ensure that only their cartridges are used so they can give a warranty on the device.

Nothing wrong with that at all.

I think that's a pretty unfair, anti-competetive practise that ought to be illegal.

I certainly won't be buying any Epson devices if they are going to hack them automatically and prevent their fair usage.

bluesnake

krisdorey wrote: »

Why? Epson are well within their rights to ensure that only their cartridges are used so they can give a warranty on the device.

Nothing wrong with that at all.

People would soon be up in arms if you could only put Ford petrol in Fords, VW petrol in VW's etc. Ford tyres....

If multi-vendor petrol came out, a Ford rep would come to your house to surreptitiously tinker with your car so that it only runs on Ford petrol, and leave your car in a non working condition because you had multi-vendor petrol in it.

There would be no alternative spares, that you could buy from third parties as these would be copyrighted/patented.

Already per ml, the inks are much more expensive than champaign, so of course people feel ripped off