Epson Printers' Programmed Death - Canon?

tricky500 wrote in post #11773915
Don't think these gimmicks are just strictly an epson thing.

tricky500 wrote in post #11773915
Don't think these gimmicks are just strictly an epson thing. My company owns about 4 "pro" level printers, HP Z 3200's, and they've phased out the selling of the most important parts even though these printers are _relatively_ new ( We bought the printers first hand, I'm speaking of the printer design line in general ). They only sell belts and cutters and simple things of the nature. Come to find out they stopped selling their maintenance kits and ink replacement / waste tanks so we had to buy one new even though it could have been fixed with a 900 dollar kit. ( I imagine the printer itself cost in the vicinity of 4000 dollars )
On the other hand, our Epson 9800 runs beautifully and haven't had any problems with it yet even though it's at least twice as old.