Digital BW, The Print

i'm getting errors saying a problem with the maintenance tank (which has maybe 30 prints on it, genuine epson)

no maintenance cart

is the exact error

then after i mess with that it give me ink cart errors

then i mess with them and we're back to maintenance cart errors

i'm running inexpensive refillable carts with double chips on each cart (original epson chips under the cartridge chips)

what gives??