Digital BW, The Print

Has anyone with a 2400 experienced the printer going into a cleaning 
cycle upon printing output.

Yes, I have. This looks like the old familiar way that Epson printers
work. After a certain length of time and/or prints the printer will
clean its heads. If you switch it off & on it will clean its heads.
All of which uses up ink of course. Which is why I'm leaving mine
switched on all the time, as I did with my 2100 for most of its 3 years.

So don't worry, this is 'normal' behaviour :-)

Regards,

Alan

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dhaaron69"
<dhaimaging@...> wrote:

>
> Has anyone with a 2400 experienced the printer going into a cleaning 
> cycle upon printing output.
>

According to the service manual this is called "flushing" to reduce
ink viscosity in the print head prior to printing, and there is
something called "scheduled flushing".

Also according to the manual here is the amount of ink usage per such
activity:

Cartridge replacement: 0.386 gram per color
cleaning cycle 1: 0.194 gram per color
cleaning cycle 2: 0.510 gram per color (performed if cleaning cycle 1
was initiated again less than 7 minutes ago)
cleaning cycle 3: 0.809 gram per color (performed if cleaning cycle 2
was initiated less than 7 minutes ago)

I think the flushing cycles are not something to worry about.

--nick

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "alanrew42"
<ar@...> wrote:

>
> Yes, I have. This looks like the old familiar way that
> Epson printers work. After a certain length of time and/or
> prints the printer will clean its heads. If you switch it
> off & on it will clean its heads. All of which uses up ink
> of course. Which is why I'm leaving mine switched on all
> the time, as I did with my 2100 for most of its 3 years.
> 
> So don't worry, this is 'normal' behaviour :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alan
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dhaaron69"
> <dhaimaging@> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone with a 2400 experienced the printer going into a cleaning 
> > cycle upon printing output.
> >
>