general maintenance

[guarddog14]

Hi everyone ,
going to sound so noobish
i've had my ricoh 3110 for months and months now but ive never done any maintenance ,
its always been fine , but im sure i should be doing something lol , what do i need to do and how often , just done a head clean on it is there anything else?
also it has been saying low inks for ages but i can remember reading somewhere you wait until the print stops printing before replacing carts is this correct?
thanks for your help ,
danny

[pisquee]

Leave the printer turned on all the time, and it will perform its own maintenance routines automatically.
Wait until it tells you to replace the carts.

[NikGrey]

I have wondered about the ink replacement routine (still on my 1st carts).

Surely if you wait until the printing stops you will have pipes full of air ? how would you purge the air in that situation.. would the Ricoh blow that air through the print head until it saw fresh ink ?

[pisquee]

The carts have ink in a bag inside them, so when all the ink is gone - you have an empty bag with all the ink sucked out of it. It's a closed system, no air will get in the lines.

[NikGrey]

Thank You Pisquee, Rep point awarded (as obviously I haven't given you a point since I became a member of this forum).

That's it though - as far as I can see I am unable to award another in my lifetime

[bms]

The carts have ink in a bag inside them, so when all the ink is gone - you have an empty bag with all the ink sucked out of it. It's a closed system, no air will get in the lines.

The printers suck all the ink out and once the printer feels a vacuum (because all the ink has gone from the bag) then it sends a kill signal to the chip and reports the cartridge as empty so you get to use all the ink in the cartridge. As pisquee says, the tubes are full of ink so replacing the cartridge doesn't affect the tubes.