Digital BW, The Print

>[snip] 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? [snip]

Actually, I'd keep the Epson carts, if you still have them, around, 
plugged with the very inexpensive rivets MIS sells, in case they help 
someday with cleaning. But with the Epson carts, I guess the chips 
are not a problem. I've only had a 900 and two 1160s, so I don't know 
from chips. And I knew so much about MediaStreet's Gen 4 ink set and 
MIS's VM Sepia-Neutral ink set from the lists, that I got a 
NoMoreCarts.com CIS for each of those ink sets without trying either 
ink set in carts.

In retrospect, I think that was reckless. If so, I was lucky. I would 
not, however, advise anyone to get a CIS until they were sure which 
ink set they wanted to use. And I would advise anyone who was sure 
and prints a lot, to get a CIS. But to make sure they get a real 
NoMoreCarts.com CIS, say from InkJetArt.com. That is, not a 
reverse-engineered, no-manufacturer-name knock-off cis, possibly from 
some place NoMoreCarts won't let sell the real CIS.

That is not a criticism of MIS's own CFS, which I think might be 
competitive but don't really know anything about. Isn't Jim Hayes 
using it?

I do have the impression that MIS tries to make good on any problems 
with their stuff. So I'd give them another chance to, possibly via a 
credit toward a CFS if that seems like a way around the bad-cart 
frustrations. I might even try giving them a call this weekend. I 
know they're sometimes in there beavering away and pick up even after 
hours.

Sam McCandless          samcc@...