Digital BW, The Print

I just wasted yet another evening and precious ink dealing with yet 
another Clog From Hell on my Epson 1280 with UT2 inks.  I love the look 
I get with the Neutral UT2 setting, and with BO/Eboni.  But I'm royally 
fed up with the endless succession of periodic clogs and BO banding.

Here's a thought.  I have an R200 that I've been using for color.  What 
if I reversed them?  Go back to color on the 1280, and get UT carts for 
the R200.

Would this be OK, or would the 200 be just as clog-prone?  Would I be 
better off with a printer designed for pigment ink? Any suggestions?

I use Picture Window Pro, not Photoshop, so I'd prefer to stick with 
the EZ or Roarke curves approach rather than the embedded profile 
approach. I'd even consider a non-Epson non-MIS approach.  More than 
anything, I want reliability, reliability, reliability. 

--Peter