Take Your Printer On VacationWritten by Barry Shultz
A person wrote to me and expressed concerns about leaving his inkjet printer unattended for 3 months. While it may not be a problem he was correctly concerned about what he might come back to. A clogged print head. Which could result in a costly repair.Under normal circumstances an inkjet printer will work fine if it has not been used for up to a week, however, any time beyond that MAY cause problems. I emphasize word MAY because I have been told by some people that they stored a printer in closet for over a year and it printed perfectly first time out. At opposite end I have had people say that if they don't use printer at least every couple of days that their print heads dry up, resulting in a frustrating routine of deep head cleanings and cartridge replacements. Here is what I suggested Roy to do: Ideally it would be great if somebody could run a cleaning routine once a week on it but probably not feasible in your case. If you remove cartridges it would just make things worse because air would permeate print heads and it's heads you want to protect, not cartridges. I would just leave cartridges in and hope for best.
| | Avoiding print head burnoutWritten by Barry Shultz
The print head, which is engine of your printer and which may or may not be located inside cartridge, houses hundreds of tiny, delicate nozzle assemblies. Each nozzle assembly consists of a tiny ink chamber, a resistor that controls flow of ink, walls that guide ink to right position, and a nozzle plate with a hole, from which ink will be sprayed onto printer paper.After each time a nozzle fires, a new supply of printer ink is automatically drawn into its chamber, to be ready for next time. When printer is told by computer to print a page, copper circuits on end of ink cartridge send a message to nozzle's resistor, which then heats nozzle's ink supply just enough to cause it to expand and to force a drop of ink through nozzle onto printer paper.
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