# I Very Rarely Use My Printer, So.....

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-very-rarely-use-my-printer-so/185326>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 30, 2003, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-very-rarely-use-my-printer-so/185326 "2003-06-30T11:30:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-very-rarely-use-my-printer-so/185326/21 "2003-07-02T15:54:22Z")

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[Here`s the link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=184999&highlight=printer) **sailor**.

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**Author:** ![aenimiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@aenimiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenimiac)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-very-rarely-use-my-printer-so/185326/22 "2003-07-02T16:50:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mangetout \*  
> \*\*It’s worse than that; some models just stop in the middle of a print run and do the dance (often just before printing the very last page). \*\*

Thankfully mine doesn’t do that, although it is liable to stop responding half way through a print, usually half way through printing a photograph and only changing the cartridge seems to have any effect on it. Damn Epson!

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**Author:** ![aenimiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@aenimiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenimiac)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-very-rarely-use-my-printer-so/185326/23 "2003-07-02T16:52:25Z")

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It’s also started to do the “I want to take more than one sheet at once if you don’t mind” routine. Which is also annoying.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-very-rarely-use-my-printer-so/185326/24 "2003-07-02T17:45:48Z")

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\*\* whuckfistle\*\*, thanks for the link. I did not know that but after thinking about it I believe my Canon S450 does not do that when printing strictly in Black. I still think the ink is being flushed in all those cleaning cycles (or maybe it is, in fact, being stolen by a hacker through the Internet).

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