Scotter said:Every time I print I have to go into the maintenance menu and run a nozzle
clean. Has anyone determined a fix for this or why this may be happening?
A friend has an i550 and I have an i850 - neither of us has had to do a
head cleaning since we bought the printers several months ago. I use
mine regularly, every few days at least, and my friend lets it sit for
over a week at times.
When you finish printing, the printer will "park" the heads in a rubber
housing that keeps the heads from drying.
Make sure you're not turning the printer off with a power bar or
anything else - the printer should be plugged into a live power outlet
at all times.
If that is not the problem, then perhaps you have a defective printer.
If you turn the printer off by pressing the power button the printer willI, also, have an i550 which is operating beautifully (touch wood). I
would appreciate an explanation of why the unit should be left plugged
into a live outlet.
Thanks (remove nospam to reply).
Dave M
If you turn the printer off by pressing the power button the printer will
make sure that the heads are parked so they won't dry out prior to powering
down. If power is disrupted by turning off a power strip it's possible the
printer may be caught with the heads not in the parked position and the
heads could dry and clog.
JP
My canon s630 is used on our RV. AC power is usually shut off when notI dont think I see or hear more than 2 cleaning cycles a
week from the lot of them except for after a power
outage when they ALL do long head cleaning cycles on
power-up(3 to 5 hours without power after ANY type of
rain or thunderstorm is normal/average for my power
company)
Canon BJC 4550) NEVER get powered down, and (knock wood)
NEVER give clogging problems. All of these units get re-
inked by me with bulk ink (www.inksupply.com)designed
specifically for the printer series, and I print a LOT!!
During horse show season the old Canon prints from 40 to
50 small (4x6 or 3x5) PROOFS a day, After proofing the
S820 will print those 40 or 50 pix to what ever size is
needed. The HP 7350 does 40 or so 5x8 prints a day, the
HP 3in1 does duty as a copier/fax 2 or 3 times a week,
and the 952 c does a hundred or so pages a week of
text/graphics.
Correct on the refills (I keep several carts standing byLife of an inkjet with a mounted head (Canon, Epson) while using bulk
ink is said to be about 2-3 years. When fed with original inks, 5-6
years.
40 5x8" prints on 7350 a day???
You have to change inks (refill) daily and the print quality probably
isn't good.
wayne
and rotate through them) incorrect on the quality..
I cant for the life of me figure why you think the
quality would suffer...I use the highest quality
settings, good paper (some Red Riverm some Printasia)and
the best damn ink money can buy AFAIK, from
www.inksupply.com (MIS Assosiates)
Wayne, you make 4 assumptions you shouldn't make:I assure you that I'm correct on the quality. Refilling cartidges with
integrated printhead (HP, Lexmark) won't give you the same results as
refilling cartidges with mounted printhead (Epson, Canon). There will
be a noticable loss in quality mainly because of the printhead, which
isn't life-time one. After 2nd refilling or even 1st, the printouts
may appear banded, washed out, etc.
Remember that you also mix the original ink with the bulk ink - not
good if you want your prints to last (even 1 year).
Your prints just won't last, no matter which setting and which paper
you will be using. Secondly you're shortening the life of the
printhead. I use original inks with Canon because they are really
cheap. The only letdown is the paper (especially pr-101) which is bit
pricey.
I think that if you buy a printer for 270$ (Europe) you can afford
inks for 9$.
Wayne
drop in quality. Im not, and its kind of insulting.
Second bad assumption: That I continue to refill a cart
simply because I can. I USUALLY will only refill twice,
then chuck it. That cuts my cost to only slightly more
than one third. I tried 3 refills on the HP # 57 # 58
(carts for the HP 7350, 7550 ect) and quality
deteriorated, so I cut that line off at 2 refils...
Third bad assumption: That the ink I refill with is of a
type and quality that would cause problems of any kind
with the head. I've been doing this a LONG time (since
the very first ink jet kits became available (dont
remember what year)). Some bulk inks are even BETTER
than OEM, some are very bad, thats what prompted my
orriginal response.
Fourth bad assumption: that the ink I use doesn't make
long lasting prints. Just not so.. MIS inks last as
long, or longer than OEM inks, thats one of the reasons
they take the trouble to formulate the ink for the
CARTRIDGE not the brand.
You really shouldn't make those assumptions, my
experience proves them incorrect.
Wayne said:There is a drop in quality: the prints won't last (photo papers). And
don't try to tell me that *the quality is the same when using refills
or not* on those media.
HP ink is expensive, I know. If you print documents on coated or plain
media, then you don't have to worry about the quality (which won't
change). BUT, if you start to print on photo papers - the quality WILL
NOT BE THE SAME AS with oem's. You won't see it (the diffrence) but
the prints will fade quicker (which shows the DIFFRENCE between
formulating ink in refills and OEM's).
Refills will always be refills - the are made to be cheap and to get
people to buy them instead of buying (sometimes expensive) OEM inks.
Show me inks which are better than OEM's and cheaper than them - there
is no such thing.
There is a drop in quality: the prints won't last (photo papers). And
don't try to tell me that *the quality is the same when using refills
or not* on those media.
HP ink is expensive, I know. If you print documents on coated or plain
media, then you don't have to worry about the quality (which won't
change). BUT, if you start to print on photo papers - the quality WILL
NOT BE THE SAME AS with oem's. You won't see it (the diffrence) but
the prints will fade quicker (which shows the DIFFRENCE between
formulating ink in refills and OEM's).
Refills will always be refills - the are made to be cheap and to get
people to buy them instead of buying (sometimes expensive) OEM inks.
Show me inks which are better than OEM's and cheaper than them - there
is no such thing.
How can you tell that some refills are better than oems - any data ?
As far as I know, no refills will last longer (and be the same
quality) than originals (livick.com / wilhelm imaging resource).
Ink in refills is specially formulated to be as near as in the
originals (but it will never be).
I'am not making bad assumptions and didn't want to make them, even if
they would be false but they are (unfortunately?) true.
Wayne
PS.
In HP's, refills don't shorten the life of the printhead.
everyone else, they don't have huge caldrons next to the printer workshops.
What you need is a thirdparty who buys from the same supplier the oems get
it from.
Don't forget third party sellers don't have to subsidise the
underpriced printers being produced.
By saying "OEM INKS" here I meant the ORIGINAL INKS (not refills).
Sorry if I gave a misleading information - it's 3:49AM here - what do
ya expect
Some companies have to subside for the printers, some don't. Canon
didn't get much from selling inks until now.
If they want to make more money they just make new inks which are more
expensive (change BCI-3* inks to BCI-3e*). Everyone knows how much
Lexmark and HP inks cost and compared to Can/Eps inks they really are EXPENSIVE.
^^^^^^^^^^
Wayne