I bought a Pro-1000 ~12 months ago, and later bought a full ink pack as some of my cartridges were running low. Just last week when doing a bunch of prints, I brought up the printer "application" dialog to view the ink levels, and I clearly saw that the ink cartridges that were nearly empty (i.e. the ones I hadn't yet replaced) all said <SETUP> at the end of their product names, but the ones that were nearly full (the ones I had replaced from the ink pack I bought) didn't say <SETUP>. Hence, my research suggests they sell the printer without full ink cartridges.