Inkjets - best to leave switched on?

[Beemer]

Is it a good or bad thing to leave an inkjet e.g. Epson 1280/1290
switched on all the time?

Beemer

 

[Safetymom123]

Better to turn it off when not using. The longer you leave it sitting
waiting to print the longer the cleaning cycle will be before you can print.
Save your ink. Turn the printer off.

 

[Bill]

Better to turn it off when not using. The longer you leave it sitting
waiting to print the longer the cleaning cycle will be before you can print.
Save your ink. Turn the printer off.

Sucks to have an Epson I guess.

My printer sat for a long weekend turned on, but not in use, by
accident. But when I printed a page, it fired right up and off it went
without a cleaning cycle and no clogging.

For your info, all inkjet printers park the printhead in a rubber tray
when not in use to prevent the heads from drying out. The printhead is
parked even when just sitting idle before tapping the power on/off
button.

You can leave it on if you want, but there is no benefit to doing so.

Just make sure you leave it connected to a live power source or at least
make sure it's turned off before you flip the switch on a powerbar so it
can park the printhead.

 

[safetymom123]

I have no doubt that it printed with no clogs but it would have run a
cleaning cycle before it started to print.

 

[Malev]

Is it a good or bad thing to leave an inkjet e.g. Epson 1280/1290
switched on all the time?

When I used to switch mine off in the evening, there was a cleaning cycle most
mornings on swtich on.
Now, I leave it on all the time and cleanning cycles are few and far between.
I drew my own conclusions.

 

[jbuch]

When I used to switch mine off in the evening, there was a cleaning cycle most
mornings on swtich on.
Now, I leave it on all the time and cleanning cycles are few and far between.
I drew my own conclusions.

I had very much the same experience with an Epson SC800.

In over three years, only one clogged nozzle situation.

Often, no cleaning cycles to start printing.

I started this by accident, having fully intended to "do the official
right thing" and turn the printer off before going to bed. B

ut I kept forgetting and it worked so well without being turned off that
I stopped crying when I did the "Bad" thing and left it on overnight or
overweek or overmonth.

I am a BAD BAD boy.

But my printer is real fine.

Jim

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[Bill]

I have no doubt that it printed with no clogs but it would have run a
cleaning cycle before it started to print.

That's what I would have thought, but as it often does any other time,
it ran the cleaning cycle AFTER printing, then parked the head again.

My printer wakes up automatically when I send a document to it, and it
often prints immediately. Go figure.

 

[Frederick Shorts]

When I used to switch mine off in the evening, there was a cleaning cycle most
mornings on swtich on.
Now, I leave it on all the time and cleanning cycles are few and far between.
I drew my own conclusions.

Go **** yerself, ya stupid troll.

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