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I think eco tanks (and some other modern inkjets) will purge the heads regularly if left on, so it should be fine if left on standby constantly.
by RobotToaster 4y ago
I think eco tanks (and some other modern inkjets) will purge the heads regularly if left on, so it should be fine if left on standby constantly.
- someweirdperson 4y agoMine doesn't, some nozzles clogged every time I wanted to print (infrequently, sometimes months). Now I'm printing a test page every week to prevent that (maybe should add a cron job). A contributing factor could be that the best-before date on the bottles is in the past. Though I have no idea how that date would matter for filling up, and no idea how to observe it after the ink is in the printer and the bottles disposed of.
- zaroth 4y agoI have a Brother laser printer which is used for almost everything, and a Canon inkjet for the occasional color print. I’m pretty sure my Canon inkjet uses more ink when idle than when I occasionally use it to actually print something. Quite sad. I do wonder where it all physically goes tho. After years of seeing my cheapo cartridges just “evaporate” whatever reservoir the printer has for cleaning the heads and purging ink must be well and fully saturated at this point?!
- Brian_K_White 4y agohuge sponges and felt blocks. not kidding.
- nebula8804 4y agoYes and the printer has an internal counter keeping track of how much it has dumped into the sponge. After a long time it will stop and require disassembly of the printer and a reset procedure to rectify this.