Not much to do with DIY, but I suppose lots of you use these.
Against my better judgement I have just bought one. I bought my first one about ten years ago, it gave me nothing but trouble and cost a fortune in print heads and ink cartridges - since when I have used nice trouble free, cheap to run B&W laser.
I've bought an all-in-one Lexmark x5495, mainly to replace my old faithful photocopier which failed a few weeks ago. This one does photocopy/ fax/ print/ scan and photo printing.
Two questions...
- Do these things if left on, normally park their heads so they don't get bunged up with dried ink - or should I push its button to turn it on then back off after use. It makes mention of a sleep mode after thirty minutes of no use.
- It has a black cartridge and a C/Y/M colour cartridge. It seems you are supposed to swap out the black, for a photo cartridge to print photos - but I don't quite understand why. I tried it without swapping
- the results (and very good they looked too) were fairly similar to those I got after swapping to the photo cartridge. The default colour cartridge's holder is marked C/Y/M - the place where the black cartridge normally goes is marked C/M/Black or Black (for an entirely black cartridge).
Is there some difference in the colour cartridge which I have not yet spotted?