Take Your Printer On Vacation
Some printer manufacturers save on costs by omitting the USB or parallel cable that you need to connect the printer to your computer. If you can't use
the same cable you had for your last printer, shop around: You don't need the expensive ones with gold connectors and heavy shielding unless you
have a lot of interference in your work area from other devices.
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We now have the photo cartridges available for the Epson R300/R300M/RX500.
The cartridges are T048520 and T048620. They are priced at $7.95 each.
http://atlascopy.com/cartridges/epson/t048120_220_320_420.htm
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Lose your printers owners manual? Most all of the printer manufacturers have the printer manuals right on their web site. You can download them
for free and print them out. This is especially handy if you purchased a used
printer that did not include the manual.
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If your printer has a lot of paper jams or mis-feeds it might be the paper. Some
bond paper can be a little fussy. Try fanning the paper stack to separate the
pages and put air between them. Sometimes it helps to just turn the stack around, over or upside-down. It may feed better in one direction than the other.
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Take Your Printer On Vacation
by Barry Shultz
A customer 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 the word MAY because I have been told by some customers
that they stored a printer in the closet for over a year and it printed perfectly
the first time out. At the opposite end I have had customers say that if they
don't use the 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 the cartridges
it would just make things worse because air would permeate the print heads
and it's the heads you want to protect, not the cartridges. I would just leave
the cartridges in and hope for the best.
Another alternative is to take the printer with you and use the buttons on the front panel to manually do a cleaning every so often.
We don't sell them anymore, but if you can locate some cleaning cartridges
on the net, just install them and run a few head cleanings, leave the cleaning
cartridges in the printer then turn it off and enjoy your trip. The cleaning fluid
will keep your print heads moist and ready to print when you get back. Tape
up your ink cartridges and store them in an upright position, i.e., the normal
position they would be in if they were in your printer.
While Roy's 3 month leave is probably the exception rather than the norm it still raises the question of what to do in his situation. He decided to do
nothing and hope for the best which was probably the best choice.
Roy, I know you're reading. Let us know how your printer works when you get back.
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Till next time.
Happy printing
Barry Shultz
Atlascopy, Inc.
PO Box 1292
Dover, DE. 19903
http://atlascopy.com
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Barry Shultz is the author of Atlascopy News, and President of Atlascopy,
Inc. Atlascopy specializes in
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