Digital BW, The Print

I have a 1160 that has come back from my local Epson technician with the 
news that the magenta head is, indeed, hopelessly blocked. I also have a 
bunch of spongeless carts, bottles of MIS UT-quad inks, and QuadToneRIP.

I still want to make prints. I'd appreciate your comments on what I 
should do. So far, I have thought of these options:

1
Have the print head replaced. This is likely to cost as much as the 
printer is worth, and I'm not inclined to do that...

2
Just load the eboni K and enjoy the BO experience. An easy option...

3
Load the M ink in the Y chamber of the carts. Make a new QTR curve based 
on the UT-EEnhMatte-warm curve, but with the M ink curve assigned to the 
Y channel. I don't know exactly how to do this, but I guess it should 
not be beyond me, though the results are too warm for my taste. This 
seems like a bit of farting around, for a result I don't really want...

4
Give up...

Your comments please, or other suggestions?

Peter Marquis-Kyle
www.marquis-kyle.com.au