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Kodak ink - Oh am I fumin?!

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  • MothballsWallet
    MothballsWallet Posts: 15,864 Forumite
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    This is not good advice. In the first place it wastes energy and in the second, the cleaning cycle is there for a purpose. The best solution is to batch up your printing so that you do many sheets in one go and increase the ratio of printing to cleaning.
    I do this with my Epson - I use the printer in its offline mode (I'm running Windows XP), print as much as I need to, and then turn the printer on when I need to print - Windows then sends all the waiting printouts to it.
  • Handsome90
    Handsome90 Posts: 505 Forumite
    edited 24 June 2012 at 12:11PM
    This is not good advice. In the first place it wastes energy and in the second, the cleaning cycle is there for a purpose. The best solution is to batch up your printing so that you do many sheets in one go and increase the ratio of printing to cleaning.

    Yes it wastes a bit of energy but Kodak printers can switch to sleep mode, which I'm guessing wastes only a few pence per year.

    Kodak website states that "Your all-in-one printer is designed to conserve power. Turning the printer off when it is not in use will not save ink. If your printer is connected to a power source and turned on at all times, it will go into power-saving (sleep) mode. To return to operating mode, send a print job to the printer or press a button on the control pane"

    Also, you can manual do the cleaning cycle when required instead of doing it every time you switch on the printer (which wastes a lot of ink!)


    http://support.en.kodak.co.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/38366/kw/more%20prints/selected/true
  • sillygoose
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    Handsome90 wrote: »
    Yes it wastes a bit of energy but Kodak printers can switch to sleep mode, which I'm guessing wastes only a few pence per year.

    Kodak website states that "Your all-in-one printer is designed to conserve power. Turning the printer off when it is not in use will not save ink. If your printer is connected to a power source and turned on at all times, it will go into power-saving (sleep) mode. To return to operating mode, send a print job to the printer or press a button on the control pane"

    Also, you can manual do the cleaning cycle when required instead of doing it every time you switch on the printer (which wastes a lot of ink!)


    http://support.en.kodak.co.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/38366/kw/more%20prints/selected/true

    Good post above! Like much equipment now it has to go to ultra low power save mode in standby. Someone said the cleaning cycle is there for a reason - yes because if the printer is powered off it doesn't know for how long its been out of use or if the power was interupted by a powercut etc when the head wasn't properly parked and capped so it will go through a priming/cleaning cycle wasting loads of ink, even if its not needed just to be on the safe side.
    Powering off printers is a bad idea.
  • Its the print head thats faulty, i had the exact same problem.
    Kodak should replace the head
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  • scooby75
    scooby75 Posts: 800 Forumite
    On the power basis - I treat it in the same way as I did my HP and I had no problem with that. I can only presume then that it is a faulty printer head.

    Incidentally, 4 days are up in which I was promised a call back. Surprise.
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  • missile
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    I do this with my Epson - I use the printer in its offline mode (I'm running Windows XP), print as much as I need to, and then turn the printer on when I need to print - Windows then sends all the waiting printouts to it.
    Good plan, but only if it suits your usage. Often my requirement is to print one letter.
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