In message , micky
writes:
In comp.periphs.printers, on Sun, 9 Aug 2015 11:28:37 +0100, "J. P.
Gilliver (John)" wrote:

In message , Tony Hwang
writes:
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Here back to school special on Brother MFC-J475DW for 59.00.
Brother is very finicky about inks. They do too many cleaning cycles
wasting ink. You can empty ink cartridges without printing a single
page. Power off when not in use.

The manual says it cleans the heads periodically even when it's off.

Yes, a lot of them do. About once a day, I think, for many makes/models.

Would have to unplug it. Their idea is that someone doesn't have to
remember to print something every two months. He can go for a year
without printing anything and the heads won't be clogged, though the
cartridges may be empty!

Well, that therefore only postpones the clogging - if it empties the
cartridges with its cleaning, then after they are empty, the clogging
will still occur!

Good advice for virtually all makes, as they all do it. Though print
something occasionally - whether once a week or once a month or other
period different people have different ideas of (probably varies with
model, temperature, and humidity) to stop things drying up and thus
blocking.

(And by "something" we mean something including solid blocks of each
colour ink, not just some text, of course.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I think we'd all qualify for Heaven - even Richard Dawkins, if only to
severely p*ss him off. Imagine? An eternity of knowing you were wrong.
- Nick Odell, in UMRA 2011-5-22