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.