Digital BW, The Print

Ferdinand,

The printers are more intelligent than you think! They have several 
different levels of cleaning cycle and which they use and when is determined 
by how long it is since the last cleaning cycle and how many prints you have 
made since the last cycle. Epson usually recommend turning the printer off 
if you are not using it, since the printhead is parked more firmly and is 
less likely to dry out. They also recommend that if you are not using the 
printer for a long while, that you turn it on and let it go through its 
cleaning cycle at least once every three weeks.

Don't unplug the printer or switch it off at the socket. If you do that the 
internal clocks won't count time and it won't know how long it is since the 
last cleaning. Just switch it off using the off/on button on the printer.


Bob Frost.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ferdinand_paris" <ferdinand_paris@...>

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.