Automatic ARE being done and for good reason. It definitely is being done on Pro-10. Once the OEM Lucia Pro ink dries, no amount of soaking will remove it. Canon knows this and this is the price of making tough scratch resistant OEM ink. Refill ink OTOH is not as tough in this regard.
There is a clock on the Pro-10 that has to be kept running. This clock counter only starts up AFTER the power on the first setup of the printer. Thereafter it is counting time. A Canon authorized service tech went over this with me and we discussed certain aspects of printers. Apparently no such clock exists on the 100. He was confused by how the Pro-10 works as compared to the 100. He did not understand the impact of the OEM Lucia Pro pigment ink. He was intrigued by the differences.
Even my R3000s and P600s will do some extra cycles if they are left powered on with no use for a while. It does this when the first print jobs come along.
In an idle state there is little current moving though the printhead nothing that should stress any electronics. The same cannot be said for when it is actually printing. Use ink that is not as dense in color and the average current that is put through the printhead increases for obvious reasons.....it needs to put out more ink. More nozzles are used and more higher heat and current density entails.
Having lived with the Pro-10 in the office with me for 8 years, it was weird hearing the Pro-10 start up doing stuff by itself. The 10 seems to have added some sequences over the 9500.
In the service manual of the 9500 the timing sequences are in a table Pages 38-40. It certainly is not as simplistic as allegedly outlined here. There is some real technical facts there designed into the firmware. For example did you know on the 9500, whenever C,M,G tanks are replaced the agititation time is doubled as compare if any other colors are replaced?
The amount of cleaning changes when for example a printhead is removed and the same one versus a new one replaces it. ( Thus somehow the printer knows a new head is put on - are print heads serialized and this is read by the firmware?)
Folks it is not as simple as many think. Each printer model is different but one thing remains it is more complicated than most people think and the operations that put in there by skilled competent engineers are there for a reason. Some make the accusations that the operations are there to waste ink. But take for example the aspect of printhead removal. If the engineers wanted to waste ink, they would treat ANY removal of printhead as a new one and consume more ink. The fact that they want to use less ink when the same printhead is removed and replaced tells you that they are trying to minimize ink waste. The color of the ink changed differences are obvious if you know about pigment inks....those colors are the most loaded with pigment and prone to more settling than the other colors.
Respect engineering folks.
Bye.
There is a clock on the Pro-10 that has to be kept running. This clock counter only starts up AFTER the power on the first setup of the printer. Thereafter it is counting time. A Canon authorized service tech went over this with me and we discussed certain aspects of printers. Apparently no such clock exists on the 100. He was confused by how the Pro-10 works as compared to the 100. He did not understand the impact of the OEM Lucia Pro pigment ink. He was intrigued by the differences.
Even my R3000s and P600s will do some extra cycles if they are left powered on with no use for a while. It does this when the first print jobs come along.
In an idle state there is little current moving though the printhead nothing that should stress any electronics. The same cannot be said for when it is actually printing. Use ink that is not as dense in color and the average current that is put through the printhead increases for obvious reasons.....it needs to put out more ink. More nozzles are used and more higher heat and current density entails.
Having lived with the Pro-10 in the office with me for 8 years, it was weird hearing the Pro-10 start up doing stuff by itself. The 10 seems to have added some sequences over the 9500.
In the service manual of the 9500 the timing sequences are in a table Pages 38-40. It certainly is not as simplistic as allegedly outlined here. There is some real technical facts there designed into the firmware. For example did you know on the 9500, whenever C,M,G tanks are replaced the agititation time is doubled as compare if any other colors are replaced?
The amount of cleaning changes when for example a printhead is removed and the same one versus a new one replaces it. ( Thus somehow the printer knows a new head is put on - are print heads serialized and this is read by the firmware?)
Folks it is not as simple as many think. Each printer model is different but one thing remains it is more complicated than most people think and the operations that put in there by skilled competent engineers are there for a reason. Some make the accusations that the operations are there to waste ink. But take for example the aspect of printhead removal. If the engineers wanted to waste ink, they would treat ANY removal of printhead as a new one and consume more ink. The fact that they want to use less ink when the same printhead is removed and replaced tells you that they are trying to minimize ink waste. The color of the ink changed differences are obvious if you know about pigment inks....those colors are the most loaded with pigment and prone to more settling than the other colors.
Respect engineering folks.
Bye.
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