Digital BW, The Print

Jerry,

I followed your steps for cleaning the print heads of my Epson 1280.  
The cartridges that I'd removed were about 20% full (color) and maybe 
40% full for black.  After the 4 head cleanings and running some 
purge print I went from getting a little bit of ink out to NONE at 
all.

My next step was to put in two of the new cartridges I just received 
yesterday from MIS (VM).  Of course, both the chips are bad because 
neither will work!!!! I'm extremely frustrated right now with MIS and 
its product.  Have to wait until Monday to call them, though!

What do you and everyone else advise?  Should I just bite the bullet 
and get the CIS system?  Then I don't have to deal with chips, 
right?  I'm so angry right now, I'm thinking of switching to Piezo so 
I don't have to do business with MIS anymore.