And you thought PRO CANON Printers wasted a lot of ink!

[@RayTaylorQ]

I’m new to the Pro 1000. I read somewhere that if you leave the printer on it will not waste as much ink in cleaning. I set mine to stay on (no power save) right now I’m printing once a week with no complaints.

[@fotticelli]

I know this is not the forum for those discussions but my response to the "purists" is a quote attributed to Ansel Adams : "The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print is the performance.” This is even more true when we substitute "the negative" with "raw file". Thank you Jose. It's always good to stop by your channel. It's finally getting through to me that not turning the printer on every day or every other day is user error. I guess that is what happens when you try to keep something that is designed to dry from drying too soon.

[@Wairoakid]

I use this program on my P900 and it does not include the note at the bottom " The total ink includes ink used for printer maintenance". Nor does it include the summary information for total ink and media used on the printer as does the screen shot he has posted. The period he selects -Dec 2024- certainly shows a lot of ink used. The SC-F500 has three cleaning methods - Print head cleaning, Powerful Cleaning and Power Flushing and seems to do a head clean every time you turn it on. The manual warns you to have at least 30% of ink in the tank for Powerful Cleaning so clearly it uses a lot of ink to do this. Its seem the nozzles were clogged after 2 months of non use and needed a Powerful Cleaning ( he called it a Level 2) to fix it. I now see why it does not have the "total ink amount including maintenance" when I use the program with my P900. The progam says " Actual costs or ink consumption may vary considerably depending on conditions of printer use, the printing environment and other factors, including but not limited to the operation and variability among printer models. Cost or ink consumption estimates do not account for ink used over the life of the cartridge for printer maintenance (unless specifically indicated in the tool) or for ink remaining in the cartridge after the replacement cartridge signal appears." Clearly the SC-F500 counts the maintenance ink. However at the big picture level, if you look at the top you see he has printed 278 square meters of media and used 2,141ml of ink. That is an average of 7.7ml per square meter of media. That seems a pretty good figure to me as the ink figure includes maintenance ink. I just printed a photo on an A2 (0.25 square meter) Baryta Epson paper and it used 5.54ml of ink at a cost of NZ$7.75 for the ink. The major point I take from this "as you have stressed many times". Print often !!!! These printers want to print!!!!. Use your ink to print images not to clean

[@andyanderson2423]

Dont see why they cant have the heads resting in a cradle which has enough ink to cover the heads to prevent drying out.

[@CJBradley]

Iv'e had my Pro 200 for some time and it prints perfectly everytime, yes the inks are expensive but arn't they all.!

[@jpdj2715]

Never switch your printer off. Be they C or E. We had a few cases of planned maintenance in the local e-grid in the past weeks. Each time the E fires up, from having been taken off power, it squirts a bit of ink around inside (on the maintenance cartridge). Compared to C-brand's the PRO-1100 that is marginal. In the video, at 3:52, we see nozzle checks (totaling 0.12 ml) and lost jobs totaling 7.46 ml. Why the jibs got lost? Don't know but when the paper wasn't fed correctly the printer will not start. And so it probably was user error where the printing got terminated because of something. Forgot to open the paper output tray? The wrong paper type was selected? The wrong crop/magnification? The wrong color profile? And yes, 7.46 ml is already an amount of ml that makes you think of lost money. Not so the nozzle checks. The screen prints of a model SC 500 are about months April through December, except November. That's 8 months and if there were as many "lost jobs" each month then that can easily run up to the quoted lost ink. I have dedicated AC outlets in the house for IT devices that all come together at the mains central switch/fuse board. So I could insert a UPS at that point. And I have considered that, actually. With solar and home batteries lurking - waiting for the tech to become more mature and prices to come down - I will not buy into that, though. In short: with the screenshots, we don't know what the cause was, based on the screenshots.

[@starlite528]

My HP actually runs a cleaning/maint. cycle every few hours

[@CamillaI]

I keep printing a nozzle check every day on my pro 1000 . Someone told me they just don't turn it off . But you do need to print a nozzle check daily I presume ?

[@cheo1949]

Yes

[@pennyfan13]

Someone told me that for the Canon Pro1000, if you turning it off by clicking the power button, the head will be sealed at the parking position, and the ink won't be dried up for a long time - at least a couple of months. Do you think that is true?

[@CJBradley]

I allow my Pro 200 to turn itself off and it works fine everytime with minimal cleaning and the head doesn't dry out.

[@dunnymonster]

As an analogy if your car only did 30 miles to the gallon but drove faultlessly and never broke down would that be preferable to if it did 40 miles to the gallon but spent every week in the workshop being maintained. Which car would you prefer to own? 😉😋

[@dougstearns6746]

Yikes that’s a lot of ml’s 😮

[@cheo1949]

Four colors so it's like 27-28 ml per color tank.

[@freehand5040]

Click bait BS.