Re: NON-Clogging Inkjet of any brand?
- From: "George E. Cawthon" <GeorgeC-Boise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:27:40 GMT
John Thomas Smith wrote:
Wife and I share an office, main printer is a Brother multi-function monochrome laser (which works very well)
Since she "sometimes" wants color, she has an Epson C82 (warranty replacement for a C80) which she uses weekly (or sometimes not even every week, the reason the C80 was replaced by the C82)
Now, her C82 also has badly clogged/dried heads due to not being used very often
After reading here, it seems that the Canon (IP5000?) is "better" about not clogging the heads... but is ANY inkjet going to continue to work with only being used on a weekly basis instead of every day?
I am also thinking about just replacing her inkjet with a "small" (ie-low cost) color laser, which is over in message Color Laser that does not LIE about toner?
But, for this message/question... anyone have experience with any brand/model color inkjet that does not clog if it is not used more often than once a week? (or less!)
John Thomas Smith http://www.direct2usales.com http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith
Yes. I bought my HP 970 in December of 2000. It has never clogged with original HP ink. (I tried refilling this year and the second time I refilled the color cartridge I inadvertently put black pigmented ink in the cyan tank. Not to bore you but even with that, I got the cartridge to print ok after doing a 2 level cleaning with the driver software.)
The 970 uses the 51645 or "45" black cartridge and the C6578 or "78" color cartridge. We often go on 7-14 day trips and there have been periods of over a month when I didn't turn the print on. Again not once before this year (that's over 4 years of use) did I ever have a clog and never used the software toolbox to clean a cartridge. By the way this printer also produces good prints are regular paper (not photographic quality of course, but good).
I don't know what a comparable new HP printer is, but I would heartily recommend the equivalent HP printer (or a better one) for anyone that goes long periods between printing something.
I also bought a Canon Pixma iP4000 earlier this year. I just checked the cartridge and they are still about 1/2 full. So far I have experienced no clogs with it and it often sits unused for a week and at least 1 time sat unused for 20 days.
Note that my workspace is normally between 65 and 74 F and only occasionally gets as low as 55 or as high as 80 and oddly both the high and the low occur in the early or late summer. Also, the sun never hits my printers and neither hot nor cold air blow directly on the printers. Humidity in the work space normally ranges from 65 to 35 percent, usually between 50 and 65 percent. Temperature and humidity may be factors in ink clogging.
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