Digital BW, The Print

As one having similar problems, I am beginning to wonder if the hassle 
of 3rd party inks is really worth the results.  But since I have yet 
to even print a test pattern I have no way of knowing.  Maybe I'd have 
been better off just sinking $1300 on a 3800.  (in my opinion the 2400 
at ~60% of the price of a 3800 just doesnt seem like a very good 
deal).  or maybe i should have been more patient and waited for the 
cone inks to come out for the smaller epsons (~2-3 months).

That being said, i can certainly understand things not working 
somtimes.  i just wish that they would have said on thier order page, 
something like "5% of the time, the chips get messed up and dont 
work.  if you have bad luck on things like this, you may want to order 
a chip resetter and a few replacement chips just in case."  then if i 
chose to ignore thier advice...shame on me.

having something easy to find on thier knowledgebase would have been 
nice as well.

I suppose i cant whine too much though...im only going to be out $70 
for the ink if i decide to sell the R340 and the epson inks it came 
with.

Caveat Emptor

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Bevans" 
<jbevans@...> wrote:
>
> I recently bought a R220 and ordered an MIS cartridge set in order to
> print what I hoped would be quality B&W prints.  When I installed the
> cartridges the LC cartridge would not work (covered in another post)
> since then two more people have posted to this forum with cartriges
> from MIS that will not work on these printers.  
> Does MIS have quality control problems?  If I need to reseat the
> cartrige they should include the cartridge setter in the order.  This
> has discouraged me with the whole project.  MIS resonse to my problem
> was reseat the cartrige. ( I explained in my problem report that this
> had been done )  Is MIS the only supplier available?  Maybe they just
> want to sell CIS.
>