OT: Printing costs, and a surprising find

[Richard Kreiss]

One quick comment- I seem to recall an unnamed software company who tried
this type of scheme and lost in court.

Richard Kreiss

 

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> Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 12:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: OT: Printing costs, and a surprising find
> 
> On 3/28/2014 10:02 AM, Fairlight wrote:
> > http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-
> gar
> > amond-schools/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
> >
> > I thought it was interesting.  There are people around here who go
> > through a bunch of paper and ink, so I thought I'd share.
> 
> Interesting article.  I wonder how the printer industry will respond to
this.
> Perhaps change their drivers to convert Garamond into some similar-but-
> more-ink-intensive font?  After all, in today's "lose money on the printer
and
> make it up in ink profits" business model, we can't let the consumers save
on
> ink.  (It was bad enough that the courts ruled that using third-party ink
can't
> void the warranty.)
> 
> Speaking of which, have you heard about Keurig's plan to have their next
> generation coffee makers not work with "unlicensed" pods?
> 
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/06521826371/keurig-will-use-
> drm-new-coffee-maker-to-lock-out-refill-market.shtml
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/how-do-you-drm-a-thing-like-a-
> coffee-pod/
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody
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