Taming Canon printers

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Is there a way of taming a Canon ip4600? By that I mean, when I go to print something it clunks around for an eternity before printing, suggesting to me it is wasting my ink.
 
I had a canon ip pixma 5000 and it never did that. Just started printing straight away.
The Epsons seem to do that.
Anything in the on screen settings to change if it does a clean before starting?
 
How far is it from you computer. I had a similar problem with an Epson 2880. It turned out it didn't like sharing a hub with another printer at the end of a 5M USB cable.

Ditched the hub, problem solved.
 
As far as I can see, there are no settings to change. From advice, I leave it on now, which apparently helps.
It is 2m away and connected directly into the PC, not via a hub
 
how often do you use the printer? If you dont use it very much, when you switch it on it will go through the cleaning mode before printing.
 
jmsjabb said:
Is there a way of taming a Canon ip4600? By that I mean, when I go to print something it clunks around for an eternity before printing, suggesting to me it is wasting my ink.
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Hi,

Unfortunatly this is just a feature(and a rather annoying one at that) of this printer and a few of the IP range. My Ip4700 does this everytime I wish to print something whether it be a page of text, or a full blown A4 photo print. I have since changed over to using a CISS kit which has lowered my printing cost considerably as the genuine Canon ink did seem to be used up at quite a fast rate(the IP4700 catridges are a lot smaller than the IP4500 inks which is something a lot of reviewers picked up on)

Mike.
 
iclick said:
how often do you use the printer? If you dont use it very much, when you switch it on it will go through the cleaning mode before printing.
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Almost every day.
It does it every time. I'm sure there must be a way of stopping it. I just hope it isn't using ink up. It also seems to go through some kind of sequence after printing too....
 
My iP4300 is the same but doesn't affect my ink usage.
 
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