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To: Petz who wrote (77834)	4/21/2002 2:27:04 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Petz: How do the new Canon models with the seperate ink cartridges handle a period of non-use? I've had a Canon 4-cartridge inkjet printer for 3 years now. I don't print nearly as much on it as Jim does on his, but I do print several (2-3) thousand pages a year. I don't know what qualifies as a "period of non-use", but there have certainly been a couple of periods of 3-4 months where I have not used it at all. These have not affected printing performance in any way. The one thing I have had to do with the printer is clean it internally every year or so. It has a self-cleaning mechanism (cloth-like pads) for the printer head which works fairly well, but needs to be cleaned itself (rinse pads in ethanol). I don't refill the cartridges, but do use non-Canon cartridges which cost around half that of the official Canon products. The first OEM cartridges I chose were not very good (basically, their CMY added up to dark green instead of real black), but I have now found some which are certainly every bit as good as the Canon ink. I've recently bought an HP Laserjet to fill my B&W printing needs. I still print code on the Canon since "syntax-coloring" makes it so much easier to read. -fyo