Inkjet, separated colors, text only - advice, pls?

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George said:
A comment and a question.
Comment: Certainly my iP4000 goes through a lot
of humming, wheels turning, etc. every time I turn
it on. Intervals between printings are usually 1
day to 2 weeks. So if mine is typical, any iP4000
owner would know that rather lengthy cleanings
occur when printing intervals are more than a few
days. In contrast, my HP 970, does a little whir
and then prints even after it sit idle for 3-4 weeks.

Question: I assume that the 24hr for pigmented
black and 5 days for the dye tanks are based on
the printer being plug in and on standby. I
assume that is true whenever the printer is
plugged in since it uses power even when the
switch is off. So, does turning the printer off
or unplugging the printer between print sessions
affect the length of time between automatic
cleanings. Seems I read somewhere that when the
printer is unplugged and plugged in again, even if
for only a short time, the printer assumes that a
cleaning is needed.
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I don't know anything along this level for a fact. In part because I
don't bother to turn off my printer, and in part because the manual
isn't really clear on this subject. I "suspect" that the printer's
internal clock governs the automatic cleanings.

I can say there is a cleaning cycle if the printhead was not "capped"
before poweron. I'm not sure exactly what capping, but I imagine if
you were to yank the power while it's on, and power the printer back
up, it'll do a cleaning cycle. .3g bci-3e, 1g bci-6 tanks. I also
imagine that unplugging the printer while power is off would have no
effect, but I have no data to backup this hypothesis.
 
measekite said:
My Canon does not do this. Maybe the machine senses defective ink and
does it on the relabeled ink.
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Boy you do a good job of even misinforming yourself - to the point of
lying! This is well documented everywhere. Then again, you've always
believed you weren't a troll either. Unfortunately you'll not find one
person here that would agree with you on that.

-Taliesyn
 
Taliesyn said:
Boy you do a good job of even misinforming yourself - to the point of
lying! This is well documented everywhere. Then again, you've always
believed you weren't a troll either. Unfortunately you'll not find one
person here that would agree with you on that.

-Taliesyn
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my epson is an even bigger offender of excessive cleaning than my canon.
while we are at it.i have one nearly empty cartridge, one less than 5% two
90% and two full. So much for not needing seperate ink tanks.
 
My Canon does not do this. Maybe the machine senses defective ink and
does it on the relabeled ink.
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Yes, your obsolete printer can't even accurately sense how much ink is
remaining in the cartridges because it uses a primitive light prism.
But yet is capable of doing advanced on-the-spot chemical analysis of
ink in the printhead and trigger head cleanings when "relabled ink" is
somehow magically sensed. You're freakin' me out, man! All this Star
Wars technology in a throw away machine that costs as little as an
expensive set of new cartridges. Simply amazing story! Now, have you
ever considered writing science fiction on a regular basis, Francis?
 
Branwynn said:
Yes, your obsolete printer can't even accurately sense how much ink is
remaining in the cartridges because it uses a primitive light prism.
But yet is capable of doing advanced on-the-spot chemical analysis of
ink in the printhead and trigger head cleanings when "relabled ink" is
somehow magically sensed. You're freakin' me out, man! All this Star
Wars technology in a throw away machine that costs as little as an
expensive set of new cartridges. Simply amazing story! Now, have you
ever considered writing science fiction on a regular basis, Francis?
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are you saying frank :-)
 
Taliesyn said:
Boy you do a good job of even misinforming yourself - to the point of
lying! This is well documented everywhere. Then again, you've always
believed you weren't a troll either. Unfortunately you'll not find one
person here that would agree with you on that.
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Question:
Does "relabeled" ink exist?
I've never heard of any such thing except from measekite. Maybe he lives
on some planet where ink is relabeled.

Richard
 
I've seen people here occasionally referring to inkjet printers made by
Samsung and Brother, yet I've never seen these brands for sale here in
the USA.

What gives?

Richard
 
What Bob is stating, (and it is true) that each time the inkjet printer
does a cleaning cycle, or a purging due to a new cartridge being
installed, all the ink cartridges are run through the cleaning or
purging cycles, and that ink is lost down the waste ink drain to the
waste ink pads, so the potential advantages of a separate cartridge per
color system may actually supply little if any advantage in terms of ink
use, and that the color cartridges will be drained by these processes
even if the the only printing being done is with black ink.

Art
 
zakezuke" ([email protected]) said:
I don't know anything along this level for a fact. In part because I
don't bother to turn off my printer, and in part because the manual
isn't really clear on this subject. I "suspect" that the printer's
internal clock governs the automatic cleanings.
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Is it the printer or the computer? I have an el-cheapo Epson hooked to an
old computer booted in either W98 or W2000, and is seems that it goes
through that annoying and needless cleaning cycle much more frequently
with W98 than with W2000.

Pavel
 
ian" ([email protected]) said:
my epson is an even bigger offender of excessive cleaning than my canon.
while we are at it.i have one nearly empty cartridge, one less than 5% two
90% and two full. So much for not needing seperate ink tanks.
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What do you print? I do a lot of photographs on my Epson and all colour
cartridges get empty almost at the same time.

Pavel
 
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