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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I wonder how much of the ink drying up thing is designed in to modern printers to waste ink in head cleaning? I suspect that someone with the consumers' best interest at heart may be able to find a solution to that problem.

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[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Worse than that, the printer I have, a Brother MFC-J895DW, actively eats its own ink on purpose (in the name of keeping it from drying out). Like most people, we print infrequently and I noticed that like every other time we would go to print we would be out of ink. After a bit of searching I found out this was a known thing and it was done on purpose.

I now turn the printer on to print and off when not printing. I haven't bought ink in over a year. Yeah the print heads need to be conditioned if you go too long between prints, but so what.

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[–] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's just what happens when you have stuff dissolved in solvents.

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

But couldn't you just cap it off and flush the line after each use?

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[–] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Maybe? Sounds like a tricky thing to automate and then you also have solvent as an additional consumable. This is a problem even with huge industrial inkjets.

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