Digital BW, The Print

What seemed to have been a promising start to my quad printing 
experience has developed into a nightmare. 

The 1160 has continually flashing lights for the power and paper feed 
and a continuous light for the ink. Everything is 'jammed.

The carriage is stuck on the right and I cant move it left manually 
to check if it's all ok in there.

I have tried the reset by: removing the usb, powering on while 
holding down the ink and paper feed buttons, releasing them when the 
lights start flashing (about 5 sec), and then pressing the paper feed 
once - it doesnt work. 

Here's the history: I ran nozzle checks, head allignment checks and 
print checks with the original Epson carts installed. ok.

Then the MIS CIS kit arrived and I took out the Epson carts and 
filled the CIS with the quad inks and set it aside to stand 
overnight. 
When I went back to it this morning I found that I had to call MIS 
about some missing components in the kit, and while discussing the 
install steps, he said I should not have left the epson carts out all 
night as the print heads could dry (stupid me!). I should replace 
them and be absolutely sure the nozzle check pattern is still ok 
before installing the CIS.

Needless to say the nozzle check was not good - I ran several 
cleaning cycles and nozzle checks. Clearly (dont mind the pun) there 
was a major clog or something amiss. I also tried printing the purge 
pattern which had major white horizontal lines across the 3 colors 
and no black. I did this for hours.

I left it to rest while I tried to 'cool off' and I came back to find 
the scenario that I described above in the first paragraph. Now I 
cant even do a utility test. Unfortunately I bought a used unit on 
ebay and there's no transferable (person to person) warranty from 
epson.

Can anyone pull a rabbit out of a hat for me ?

thanks
frankg