Digital BW, The Print

At 12:58 AM +0000 11/16/04, Dave Tevis wrote:
>I'm looking for help from any mac osx users. I just installed a cis 
>system on my
>2200 and want to keep it clear of troubles. I know that letting it 
>sit idle is asking
>for trouble. I was thinking of using the startup feature to 
>automatically start the
>computer every day, then have a script in the startup items that will print an
>image to keep the heads working at least once per day. I don't know anything
>about scripts, or if I even need to do it this way. Any ideas to accomplish my
>mission?

I have two 1160s, Dave, each with a cis, one with MIS's sepia pigment 
inkset in it, the other with MediaStreet's Gen 4 CMYK pigmented inks 
in it except that I replace its hybrid pigment-dye K with the MIS 
pigment K. I still print on them from OS 9.1.

Each morning when I'm at home, I turn on the printers before I start 
the computer to download e-mail. And before I do the e-mail, I do a 
nozzle check on each printer and, if necessary (rarely), a head 
cleaning and another nozzle check. Then I turn the printers off, 
sometimes until the next morning. Occasionally for a few weeks when I 
go away. But even that hasn't led to any problems yet. I typically 
come home to perfect nozzle checks. None of this is scripted, but 
that seems to me a good idea if you don't mind to learn how to do 
scripts.
--
Sam