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Topic: What is my printer doing?
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Mike Blakesley
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Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 05-05-2010 03:22 AM
I have a couple of HP color inkjets. I just finished printing a page on the newest one (B8500). After the page came out, the printer continued clicking and rattling for about a minute. It also does similar clicking, whirring, banging, and just generally sounding like it's playing with itself, for a minute or so when it's powered up, and occasionally just at random it'll all of a sudden wake up, click and bang for a while and then settle down again. Also, when this printer was new it probably clanked and rattled for at least 10 minutes while it was "setting up."
At the store we have a Pitney Bowes postage meter. Sometimes during the day without warning it will go "beeeeep," then sit there clicking, rattling and so on, for no particular reason.
What the hell are these printers doing with all of this racket? Are they lonely and just wanting somebody to come and visit? I have a feeling I'm not using ink fast enough so they're somehow purging ink from their cartridges.
There's nothing wrong with all of this, I'm just curious what the purpose is for all the mayhem. My trusty old laser printer (HP 5P) will just sit there in silence for months until I print something.
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