Treat 4800 mean, keep it clean
Things have been quiet on the 4800 blog this year - family illnesses certainly have a way of rejigging priorities, for the better imo.
But it has meant the 4800 has sad idle for long periods of time, relatively speaking of course e.g. 3 weeks of no use at all - and my new anti-regime for dealing with clogging etc is working a treat!
Presenting my 'Don't have a cow man' approach to using the 4800:
* Print less often, in bigger batches. Don't fret if it sits idle for however long.
* On startup before printing a batch:
- Decline its offer to do a Power Clean
- Do a manual nozzle check
- Follow by an auto nozzle check only if required
That's about it! Of course, YMMV.
One thing is for sure, my second 4800 is behaving much better generally than the first, touchwood.
posted by Pete Walsh @ 5:28 PM 8 comments
At 5:43 PM,
Anonymous said...
Hope your family is fine now and the particular member has returned to good health.
Always enjoyed yr blog.
Taka care!
josh
At 1:11 PM,
Pete Walsh said...
Thanks Josh!
At 3:46 AM,
Adbloggers.com said...
Good blog, keep it up!
At 8:35 AM,
digitaldex said...
How does the 4800's 2880 res compare to the R2400's 5760 "optimized" res?
does the 4800 use the same 3.5 picoliter capable heads as the R2400?
c4bone4u@yahoo.com
At 1:48 PM,
jay steinke said...
I had a request for a power clean on the 4800. It asks yes or no. How do I answer? I go to menu and I don't see how to respond.
Thanks,
Jay
At 5:30 PM,
Pete Walsh said...
Answer using the left/right arrows on the printer.
Generally, I'd recommend saying No to a Power Clean and then do a manual nozzle check. If that looks ok, do nothing else. If your prints look ok, no problem. If the manual nozzle check does not look ok, or your print quality drops dramatically/suddenly, do an auto nozzle check.
At 11:48 AM,
BillieS said...
It has been a while since you posted. Hope it isn't because of family illness.
I have the 4000 and was having clogging problems. Today I updated the firmware of 6/26 and clogs cleared without doing anything else. Might have been the firmware or the printer angel....who knows.
At 9:16 AM,
Anonymous said...
still some people here??
what do you think about this printer http://au.shopping.com/xPO-Brother-MFC-9840CDW???
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