Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Dynamic security secures your money into HP's pockets" video.

  1. I'm still using Epson PX720WD and this is definitely the best printer I've ever had. It's far from perfect but I can run it with high quality 3rd party dye inks with easily refillable cartdridges (just pull a silicon plug and add correct ink from a bottle whenever the cartridge is about to go empty) and it will newer clog and will print great photos with 6 inks. The only bad thing is that dye inks are not water proof and fade pretty rapidly in UV exposure. And the inks soak into the paper so you have to use high quality paper for sharp prints. Of course, Epson figured this bug in the system and their more recent printers have built-in DRM which prevents using 3rd party inks. If this printer ever fails, I don't know which printer to get next. (Historically, if you wanted a high quality inkjet with refillable cartridges, you had to use Epson because Epson printers use one permanent really high quality printhead. Many other inkjet manufacturers put printhead in the cartdridge and as a result, have to use lower quality printhead to avoid making cartdridges even more expensive than they already are. Of course, Epson cartdridges being literally just a plastic container for the ink, the prices should be much lower but Epson obviously wants high profit because they sold the printer for very little profit.)
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  2. Software patents are also used to prevent progress, not to patent great inventions.
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  3.  @masskiller9206  That's why you go with aftermarket cartridges with Epsons. The cardridges I have automatically reset the ink counter back to full when it goes under 50%. The only issues this causes is that the ink display on the screen is not accurate so I have to monitor the ink levels manually. There's an actually sensible reason to refuse to print if any color is empty: that's because the default inks are pigment based and the print head will get clogged if print head is moved out of its resting position multiple time without enough ink in the holes in the print head. And the way the print head is built, the printer will need to apply some suction to it every now and then during the printing. If you use water soluable dye inks, you don't need to be afraid about print head getting clogged but the prints are not waterproof. The default Epson ink is so waterproof that I haven't found any solvent that's able to restore badly clogged print head. With water soluable dye inks, in worst case I've had to push maybe half a cardridge worth of ink through to get perfect test patterns. If you want waterproof prints, you should use laser or sublimation printer, not an inkjet. I'm still wondering why nobody makes a printer that has both laser and inkjet hardware. Most of the cost of the modern printer is the mechanical parts that are shared with both technologies and after that the most expensive part is the print head. So if you're willing to pay for high quality inkjet, including the extra parts for laser printing shouldn't increase the costs that much.
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