I think I'll try your cartridge swapping scenario. Until now I only changed individual cartridges untill the driver claims it's empty leaving all the other flashing cartridges in the printer. To my suprise the software twice claimed another cartridge was empty directly after the change of another one. It started flashing during the last print. This would indicate the printer is flushing all cartridges heavily after one new cartridge,
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I print in sessions, sporadically. Sometimes heavy at times ... I've > run through an entire set of ink carts in one long day's session > twice ... but more usually I'll make 20-30 prints then not print for > a week, etc. > > It's not sensible to keep the R2400 printer powered continuously if > you're not printing frequently. When powered off, the heads are > parked and capped to prevent drying out/clogging. Same for all the > others, far as I know (certainly for the 1270). When powered up, a > quick purge cycle to ready the heads is performed, but I doubt it > uses much ink. > > Replacing an empty ink cartridge does incite a significant full purge > and clean cycle. I run the printer until it stops with a cartridge > completely out of ink, then replace all that have been flashing as > low at one time. This minimizes how much is lost in the refill, purge > and clean cycle, but you lose some ink (up to 10% capacity, I > understand) if you change carts just when the indicators start > flashing. So it's a tradeoff. > > However, my actual accounting numbers from actual use over the entire > time I've had this printer are within 5% of what Red River obtained > from their test. I would call it "close enough" and much much cheaper > than anything I ever did in a darkroom print process. > > (Do remember that these are INK numbers ... Paper costs money too. > But it's still cheaper.) > > Godfrey > > On May 31, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Toine wrote: > >> I never print 200 photos in one batch on the r2400. Do you power off >> the R2400? I suspect the R2400 uses inkt on every power cycle. Even if >> it does I don't know if it's a good idea to keep the printer powered >> on epson, maybe the print heads dry out when the printer is on >> standby. >> >> Toine >> >> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I thought this article by Red River Paper might be interesting: >>> >>> http://www.redrivercatalog.com/cost-of-inkjet-printing-v1.html >>> >>> To my delight, their analysis of ink usage costs is within 5% of what >>> my records demonstrate with the R2400 since October 2005. >>> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
