Digital BW, The Print

If you haven't printed for a while it is likely in need of a cleaning cycle
- let the machine operate as its engineers planned unless you have great
cause for bending it in a different direction.


> From: ferdinand_paris <ferdinand_paris@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:02:50 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 2100 questions
> 
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> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard
> Smallfield <r.smallfield@p...> wrote:
>> yesterday I installed a new Epson 2100.
>> I know that Epsons use ink for cleaning every time that you turn
>> them on.
>> Is it ok to leave it turned on for long periods of time?
> 
> I too have wondered about how best to minimise the number of cleaning
> cycles my Epson 2100 does.  I decided to leave it on to try and
> minimise them.  But I don't think that this has worked.  If you
> haven't printed for a while, but left it on, it will do a cleaning
> cycle before it starts printing.
> 
> I wondered about unplugging it, but that would probably just guarantee
> a cleaning cycle at each start-up, whereas is you turn it on and off,
> it only does a cleaning cycle at some power-ups.
> 
> F_P
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