Digital BW, The Print

I had the same experience with the MIS 1280 VM cartridges. I think selling
poorly made products is a waste of everybody's time. No matter how nice the
MIS people are, they are still wasting my time by selling me poorly
manufactured products. Can we really trust the quality of any of their
products if they are willing to sell such shoddily made cartridges?  How
come people don't jump on these third party people the way they do if Epson
makes a blunder? They should stop selling the cartridges until they get it
right.

 I finally switched to the Epson 2200 with Ultrachromes and while the b&w
prints out of the box really aren't perfectly neutral (unless they get the
right light :)), I'm hoping to get closer with ImagePrint and profiles. The
toned prints and color prints are gorgeous and really an amazing achievement
for Epson.

Luke

> I did the cleaning both from above and below.  It's just that the
cartridges
> didn't seem to work at all then (after replacing).  The next set I opened
> from MIS were DOA.  So I'm thinking I've got a lot of bad cartridges again
> from MIS.  I did get another set going later, so it doesn't look like I
> failed to get rid of a clog.  I'm really frustrated with the MIS product
> quality, or, rather, lack thereof.  I bet the last set of cartridges
(prior
> to cleaning) weren't completely full, similar to the ones I used before
that.
>  Between improper filling and bad chips, it's a bit much!
>