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From: Monica on 18 May 2005 09:26 Under the Maintenance tab in the printer's properties box, I set the printer to Auto On and Auto Off (after 5 minutes). After selecting the settings, my options are Send or Cancel. Send? Well I know I don't want to cancel so I chose send. The next box asks, "Write settings to printer?" Choosing yes brings up the document queue with "Maintenance" as the document's name. What? I don't want to print this (and it doesn't try to print, it just sits there). I canceled out. Auto On and Auto Off show enabled but does not work. I don't find any mention of this in the on line manual. It simply states what it is (already knew that) Could someone enlighten me as to how to get this to work? Thanks, Monica
From: Dan G on 18 May 2005 11:27 The command gets written to the printer via the print queue, so you need to stop interfering with it. If you have print jobs in the queue, the command will be written after they are finished. This is true with any of the maintenance commands. "Monica" <nospam(a)guess.com> wrote in message news:2oHie.41934$fx3.35247(a)okepread02... > Under the Maintenance tab in the printer's properties box, I set the printer > to Auto On and Auto Off (after 5 minutes). After selecting the settings, my > options are Send or Cancel. Send? Well I know I don't want to cancel so I > chose send. The next box asks, "Write settings to printer?" Choosing yes > brings up the document queue with "Maintenance" as the document's name. > What? I don't want to print this (and it doesn't try to print, it just sits > there). I canceled out. Auto On and Auto Off show enabled but does not > work. I don't find any mention of this in the on line manual. It simply > states what it is (already knew that) Could someone enlighten me as to how > to get this to work? > Thanks, > Monica > >
From: measekite on 18 May 2005 12:25 There is really no reason to use this feature. Leave the printer on 24/7. The only printer that should be turned off are maybe the Epsons. Monica wrote: >Under the Maintenance tab in the printer's properties box, I set the printer >to Auto On and Auto Off (after 5 minutes). After selecting the settings, my >options are Send or Cancel. Send? Well I know I don't want to cancel so I >chose send. The next box asks, "Write settings to printer?" Choosing yes >brings up the document queue with "Maintenance" as the document's name. >What? I don't want to print this (and it doesn't try to print, it just sits >there). I canceled out. Auto On and Auto Off show enabled but does not >work. I don't find any mention of this in the on line manual. It simply >states what it is (already knew that) Could someone enlighten me as to how >to get this to work? >Thanks, >Monica > > > >
From: Ivor Floppy on 18 May 2005 12:39 "measekite" <measekite(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:w%Jie.493$mK.240(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... > There is really no reason to use this feature. Leave the printer on 24/7. > The only printer that should be turned off are maybe the Epsons. > There's no need to turn Epson's off either - other than the waste of electric.
From: measekite on 18 May 2005 12:51
Ivor Floppy wrote: >"measekite" <measekite(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message >news:w%Jie.493$mK.240(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... > > >>There is really no reason to use this feature. Leave the printer on 24/7. >>The only printer that should be turned off are maybe the Epsons. >> >> >> > >There's no need to turn Epson's off either - other than the waste of >electric. > > The following was explained to me by an ink vendor. Constant printing causes paper dust from various coated and non coated paper. This dust is attracted to the ink heads and collects on the head and ink. This hastens the printer to clog. By turning the printer off the heads are parked and the tendency for this is reduced. However, each time you turn it back on the printer will use more ink > > > |