Digital BW, The Print

Fellows,
there will probably be some people who are going to order the 
MIS Variable Mix Hexatones in order to install them on their 
1270/80/90 printers. I tried the same this week and actually killed 
my printer.
Though I don´t exactly know why this happened let me warn you 
not to make the same mistake (?):

What happened is, that after installing the CIS system my printer 
always reads the color cartridge as "e m p t y" though it is full.
It doesn´t matter if I put an   n e w   Epson cart in it or the CIS cart 
with the CIS chip. Even if I change the black and color chip of the 
CIS carts, the printer will read the color cart as empty and the 
black cart as "full" (so it is not a defective chip).
I even downloaded the MIS sofware reset program for Epson 
chips, but that didn´t fix the problem.

The only explanation I´ve got for this strange behaviour is, that 
the original Epson color cart actually   w a s   e m p t y   befor I 
installed the CIS system.
So before we find another reason: dont swap to CIS with 
"empty-reading" of your OEM carts.

Let me stress, that I´ve got two CIS systems from NoMoreCarts 
on my 1160s. They do very well.
The support of the company was excellent in this case. They 
answered my e-mails promptly, though it was daytime here in 
Germany - and they generously offered me a full refund without 
knowing, why I produced this mess (changing the Chips caused 
a messy ink spilling).

So I do recommend the CIS - but don´t install it, if your printer 
reads any cart empty.

Bernd