Digital BW, The Print

I've got yet another e mail out to Dana at Cone's for possible help  
getting these 1400s to work.  I have two, with color CISes.  Neither  
one has functioned properly.  The one I've been working on currently  
keeps showing an error light, pointing to a particular cart.  When I  
pull up that cart and put it back down, it may work then, or go to  
another cart.  I fix that one, maybe it'll work for a cleaning cycle  
or two, then boom, another light.  I've pulled ALL of the carts at a  
time, put them back, then it will seem to work longer- maybe four or  
five cleaning cycles, but before long, there's another light, and  
it'll go on like that in an ongoing cycle from color to color, getting  
back to a color I've already fixed.   Before the lights started being  
the main problem, I did I don't know how many pad soaks with Cone's  
red flush, and windex-soaked paper towel cleans, trying to get full  
nozzle checks.  Never could.  Pulled the carts and flushed with a  
syringe and plastic tube over the intake nib with Cone's red flush.   
Still problems.  These printers worked fine when I first got them,  
with the OEM carts in.  Perfect from the start.  With Cone's CISes:  
nothing but problems.

I use these printers primarily for everyday printing, with the goal of  
being able also to print a good small print as a proof or whatever.  I  
long for the days of 1160s with NoMoreCarts- never a problem.  I've  
got some of these printers still, don't know if they could be  
resurrected any more, or if the driver for them for OS X, which I just  
downloaded, will work in Snow Leopard.  I need a printer that works,  
not one that I continually have to try to get working.

Anyone know of a good 1160-like trouble-free workhorse daily printer  
with a CIS available for it?  Anyone want two 1400s?

James