Kodak ink - Oh am I fumin?!

MothballsWallet

Sheldon_Cooper wrote: »

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

Sheldon_Cooper wrote: »

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

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.

hawkwinddotcom

Its the print head thats faulty, i had the exact same problem.
Kodak should replace the head

scooby75

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.

missile

MothballsWallet wrote: »

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.