wes wrote: > seems reasonable, except that would print the keepalive page even if you had > just printed something 5 minutes ago. I suppose it's still worth it if the > printer sees such infrequent use that this is worthwhile. though if that's > the case, you could just pull the cartridges out and seal them up. I think > that's what I'll do in my case. > > -wes > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Pete Lancashire > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> dont have system with printer where Im at but something like this >> >> in cron run script once a day >> >> check the timestamp on a file, if older then 7 days lpr the squirt >> file to the printer >> touch the file >> >> the test file is a zero length file in /var, the squirt file is HP >> code to print four rectangles >> high enough to ensure all nozzles are being used. I used something like >> gimp to >> create them. Made the height just enough to where it took two passes >> of the print head. >> >> Their width was like 1/10 inch or something like that >> (omissions for brevity) My 7310 seems to want to have something like the alignment page and clean print heads run every few days no matter what other activity has occurred. Regards Fred James
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