Macworld: News: Epson hits another ink cartridge maker:

For the second time this week a manufacturer of Epson-compatible ink cartridges is taking its products off the market as a result of legal action by Seiko Epson Corp., the Japanese company said Friday.

The popularity of digital photography has gone trough the roof, and people are printing out pictures like there’s no tomorrow. The quality of the printers has increased as well. But the prices of ink cartridges are insane. Change the cartridges two or three times and that costs more than the printer. In fact, isn’t the ink now more expensive than perfume per cc? Manufacturer like Epson now put small chips inside the cartridges that both makes difficult for others to make cartridges that work with Epson printers, and also makes it harder to refill them. And the cartridge stops working with more than 10-15% of the ink remaining, because of Epsons calculation of how much there is left. And don’t get me started on the waste of ink when declogging the print heads.

My next printer will be a Canon instead. The ink is at least a bit less expensive.

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