Inkjets - best to leave switched on?

[beemer]

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Is it a good or bad thing to leave an inkjet e.g. Epson 1280/1290
switched on all the time?

Beemer

 

[Guest]

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Better to turn it off when not using. The longer you leave it sitting
waiting to print the longer the cleaning cycle will be before you can print.
Save your ink. Turn the printer off.




"Beemer" <beemer@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1aeefaa9edb6d91498968f@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Is it a good or bad thing to leave an inkjet e.g. Epson 1280/1290
> switched on all the time?
>
> Beemer
>

 

[bill]

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safetymom123 wrote:

>I have no doubt that it printed with no clogs but it would have run a
>cleaning cycle before it started to print.

That's what I would have thought, but as it often does any other time,
it ran the cleaning cycle AFTER printing, then parked the head again.

My printer wakes up automatically when I send a document to it, and it
often prints immediately. Go figure.

 

[Guest]

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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:15:54 GMT, Beemer <beemer@nowhere.com> wrote:

>Is it a good or bad thing to leave an inkjet e.g. Epson 1280/1290
>switched on all the time?
>

When I used to switch mine off in the evening, there was a cleaning cycle most
mornings on swtich on.
Now, I leave it on all the time and cleanning cycles are few and far between.
I drew my own conclusions.

 

[Guest]

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Malev wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:15:54 GMT, Beemer <beemer@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Is it a good or bad thing to leave an inkjet e.g. Epson 1280/1290
>>switched on all the time?
>>
>
>
> When I used to switch mine off in the evening, there was a cleaning cycle most
> mornings on swtich on.
> Now, I leave it on all the time and cleanning cycles are few and far between.
> I drew my own conclusions.

I had very much the same experience with an Epson SC800.

In over three years, only one clogged nozzle situation.

Often, no cleaning cycles to start printing.

I started this by accident, having fully intended to "do the official
right thing" and turn the printer off before going to bed. B

ut I kept forgetting and it worked so well without being turned off that
I stopped crying when I did the "Bad" thing and left it on overnight or
overweek or overmonth.

I am a BAD BAD boy.

But my printer is real fine.

Jim

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