RE: Quick question: Power on or off?

[Charles Bandes <byronbulb@mac.com>]

I left my 2000p turned on for 18 months straight. Most of that time 
it worked fine. After a certain point though I started getting really 
really really bad smears of black ink all over everything - coming 
from the print head. When I had it serviced I was told that the 
problem was leaving it on all that time, as the heads weren't 
correctly parked and so lots of dust and gunk was able to collect 
around the print head, causing ink to smear.

I've gotten this same story from both Epson and the independent 
repair shop I visited, so I'm inclined to believe it.

>I do the same with my 2000P and have seldom had a clogged nozzle.
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>John Roper
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>At 06:46 PM 5/23/2002 -0700, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
>>Everyone, including Epson, says that. However, I've owned a 2000P for a
>>couple years, and in that time it has never been turned off, except for a
>>few days it spent on a moving van. I often leave it unused for over a month,
>>and I've never had a clogged nozzle. Consider this just one more data point,
>>though. YMMV
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