Digital BW, The Print

Are other people finding that the spongeless carts and MIS inks do 
not require endless cleaning cycles etc.????  This would be great 
news to me.  I don't know how much life my 1160 has left in it, but 
since it works perfectly as-is, I'd prefer to use it while I watch 
other developments...  

Thanks for comments!

mark

> 
> BOTH of my 1160's ended their lives within the past year..I 
honestly feel
> that having a CFS/CIS system on each caused theeir early 
demise..It's not
> the addition of the continuous ink supply that caused their 
untimely end,
> IMHO, it was the ENDLESS clean/purgeing cycles I need to do just in 
order to
> make a few prints!..During the past 3 years I used one for color 
and one for
> B&W..all with either MIS GP/VMS/Generations pigmented inks..I 
strongly fell
> my problems were sponge-cartridge related..I've sinced moved over 
to 2 Epson
> 1280's @ about $260.00 net each (after $100 rebate) with MIS new
> spongless/chip resettable and re-filliable carts, and no more 
EXTENDED
> cleaning cycles or clogs
...