I myself didn't find Mr J. Carr's response offensive, but more informative. he mentioned what one's options are, and made us aware that it seems regardless of age, you don't have a paperweight, that there are options.
I believe it would be nice if more manufacturers were visible in this forum, but I can probably concur with others that this forum could then turn more into a seller's forum, with much hash, and bias, with many hawking their wares.
What has been already touched on, is the concern of what a distributor, and manufacturer will do to an end customer for repair-re-tipping service. I as well have such concerns. Most of these quality Cartridges come from Japan, and there appears to be too much middlemen to wade through, and all apparently holding their hands out to get greased.
No up front publicly known fees from virtually all of these manufacturers of what anything costs makes one quite wary-apprehensive. Dealing with Japan is sort of like dealing in the stock market. Mark
I believe it would be nice if more manufacturers were visible in this forum, but I can probably concur with others that this forum could then turn more into a seller's forum, with much hash, and bias, with many hawking their wares.
What has been already touched on, is the concern of what a distributor, and manufacturer will do to an end customer for repair-re-tipping service. I as well have such concerns. Most of these quality Cartridges come from Japan, and there appears to be too much middlemen to wade through, and all apparently holding their hands out to get greased.
No up front publicly known fees from virtually all of these manufacturers of what anything costs makes one quite wary-apprehensive. Dealing with Japan is sort of like dealing in the stock market. Mark