Digital BW, The Print

My Epson C84 has run like a champ for 2+ years with a MIS CFS and their 
EZ inks, producing many thousands of lovely B&W prints.  But recently it 
has gotten a little goofy, giving me "parts are nearing the end of their 
service life" error messages as it decides to stop printing.  I tried 
resetting counters with the Russian utilities but that didn't fix 
things.  Unplugging it for two days got it working again, but I print 
about 800 8x8 prints for Christmas books and didn't want to get stuck in 
the middle of that project with a dead printer.

So I ordered a refurb C88 from Epson ($59 delivered) after talking to 
MIS and hearing that the C84 CFS is basically a drop-in for the C88.  
Today I did the swap, and was rewarded with essentially perfect prints 
after running the recommended purge patterns.  So if any of you have a 
C84 that's dying (and maybe this is true for the C86 as well), or maybe 
you just want to be prepared for the day, this is a very simple way to 
keep going with your EZ system.  (NOTE:   I don't know if I'd get the 
same results from a C88+ - not sure what they did to the 88 to make it a 
+, and didn't ask MIS about moving to that printer.)

Cheers,
Kip