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This subject may also apply to other printers and not just Canon.
First off you can’t stop it, because the printer isn’t actually wasting your ink, its using it to keep the print head in perfect working order for you. (How generous)
You can however cut down on the amount of ink that the printer uses for all these extra cleaning cycles.
The most obvious one is to change all of your cartridges together when one is showing low ink, it is also a mistake to wait till a cartridge is declared empty, because that will trigger an even bigger cleaning cycle on most models.
The next one is two fold and they are, to turn off your printer by using the power button on the front (Or Auto shut off) but leave the power plug in the wall, the other one is to have the printer powered on 24/7, by disabling the auto shut off.
The reason behind these two actions are , first leaving the printer plugged in but turned off helps the printer keep track of time since its last maintenance cycle, so it tends to run far less cleaning cycles, because the memory is still active.
Now powered on 24/7 is just slightly different, the printer will do shorter maintenance cycles but more of them and will never run a large maintenance cycle, but the big question is does it use more the just using the power off button ?
Each time you change a completely empty cartridge the printer will run a longer cleaning cycle then if you change the cartridge when it’s only showing low ink, it will also run a cleaning cycles for every single further cartridges you change, so change them all together.
ARC chips are a completely different animal, when you press on the power button the printer will always run a cleaning cycle, the length of that cycles varies on the brand of ARC’s and on how long the printer was turned off, but usually it’s excessive in my opinion.
Lastly, when you printer has been power off over night (Unplugged) it will always start with a generous cleaning cycle because it has no previous memory, but that’s a small price to pay because if your in an area subject to power surges, outages and frequent thunder storms then you could lose your logic board in any of these events.
Notice I didn’t mention anything about the waste ink build up inside your printer..
First off you can’t stop it, because the printer isn’t actually wasting your ink, its using it to keep the print head in perfect working order for you. (How generous)
You can however cut down on the amount of ink that the printer uses for all these extra cleaning cycles.
The most obvious one is to change all of your cartridges together when one is showing low ink, it is also a mistake to wait till a cartridge is declared empty, because that will trigger an even bigger cleaning cycle on most models.
The next one is two fold and they are, to turn off your printer by using the power button on the front (Or Auto shut off) but leave the power plug in the wall, the other one is to have the printer powered on 24/7, by disabling the auto shut off.
The reason behind these two actions are , first leaving the printer plugged in but turned off helps the printer keep track of time since its last maintenance cycle, so it tends to run far less cleaning cycles, because the memory is still active.
Now powered on 24/7 is just slightly different, the printer will do shorter maintenance cycles but more of them and will never run a large maintenance cycle, but the big question is does it use more the just using the power off button ?
Each time you change a completely empty cartridge the printer will run a longer cleaning cycle then if you change the cartridge when it’s only showing low ink, it will also run a cleaning cycles for every single further cartridges you change, so change them all together.
ARC chips are a completely different animal, when you press on the power button the printer will always run a cleaning cycle, the length of that cycles varies on the brand of ARC’s and on how long the printer was turned off, but usually it’s excessive in my opinion.
Lastly, when you printer has been power off over night (Unplugged) it will always start with a generous cleaning cycle because it has no previous memory, but that’s a small price to pay because if your in an area subject to power surges, outages and frequent thunder storms then you could lose your logic board in any of these events.
Notice I didn’t mention anything about the waste ink build up inside your printer..
