Aleik
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« on: May 19, 2021, 06:37:24 AM » |
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Hi, would it be possible for a future iteration of Qimage Ultimate to offer a scheduled job that isn't just limited to "unclog"? I'd find this really useful for printing I have to do anyway, so if I'm away I can set it and forget it, keeping my Canon printer ticking over and the ink not drying up. Thanks.
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« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2021, 02:34:15 PM » |
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You can do this now. Use Edit, Preferences, Printing Options, and check "Spool and Cool" at the bottom. Example: set it to print one page every 1440 minutes (1 day). Then you can load up as many pages as you like and it'll print one page per day.
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Mike
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Aleik
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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2021, 11:12:13 AM » |
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Wow, thanks so much Mike!
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skyer
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« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2025, 11:40:03 AM » |
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You can do this now. Use Edit, Preferences, Printing Options, and check "Spool and Cool" at the bottom. Example: set it to print one page every 1440 minutes (1 day). Then you can load up as many pages as you like and it'll print one page per day.
Will this option be applied to all printing jobs? If I set up this "Spool and Cool" option, will I be able to print my other printing jobs in an ordinary (quicker) way? Or after setting up this option all jobs will be printed 1 page per day? |
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« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2025, 01:33:10 PM » |
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Like everything in Qimage, it's a sticky setting so once you set it, it will spool and cool until you turn it off.
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Mike
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skyer
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« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2025, 08:30:03 PM » |
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I see. Then maybe it's not a bad idea to create a new option in the Unclog menu so that Qimage will print not a color pattern but a pile of photos one at a time. This way it'll be more useful.
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« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2025, 09:56:58 PM » |
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I see. Then maybe it's not a bad idea to create a new option in the Unclog menu so that Qimage will print not a color pattern but a pile of photos one at a time. This way it'll be more useful.
That's probably going to cause more problems than it solves. It prints a purge sheet because that is effective at keeping nozzles exercised so for the purpose of exercising the nozzles, there is no substitute for the unclog pattern. Printing a batch of "random" photos over time (say one a day) could lead to problems because it won't exercise the nozzles the way it should, some colors may not be accounted for (or not enough) and using it that way could give you a false sense of security thinking you are doing proper exercising of the nozzles when you are not. Regards, Mike |
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skyer
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« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2025, 08:11:23 AM » |
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If talking precisely from the unclog perspective, you must be right. However:
1. As far as I understand, the majority of people use this function in order to save ink from a purging process of their printers. At least, it corresponds to Canon printers.
2. Contemporary printers get clogged less than it used to be. My dye-ink Canon Pro-100 didn't get clogged even after more than year of inactivity (the printer was switched off)! And it happened twice! Some users of pigment-ink Canon printers claim that their printers don't get clogged after a few months of inactivity.
3. Even in a BW mode printers use not only monochrome inks but color inks as well. I'm sure that when printing color images printers will use almost all colors. Surely, some colors may be used in a small amount but it still can be enough to avoid clogging.
Now I have a pigment-ink Canon Pro-1000 printer. It is said that if I don't print anything in 24 hours, it will initiate a self-cleaning process that wastes a few ml of inks. So I have to print something every day. At the same time I don't see any point in messing around with everyday unclog printing when I could print my photos instead. Automatically, ofcourse.
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« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2025, 02:01:21 PM » |
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I get what you are trying to do but I just don't see this being a useful option at all:
(1) If your printer doesn't clog even after a year, you don't need to try to use random photos as "unclog sheets".
(2) If the printer does clog, you should be using the unclog sheets and not photos.
(3) If you are trying to so something like prevent a printer from printing a cleaning cycle after 24 hours, printing a half sheet unclog on copy paper makes sense.
In the end, no one is going to want to wait 3 days to get the photo on page 3 and you'll end up printing throw-away photos that no one wants, wasting photo paper when you could just print an unclog pattern on a half sheet of copy paper. The unclog uses WAY less ink (and balanced ink usage) than a photo anyway and you can print them on copy paper. Then you can print the photos you want when you want them. Even in a case where you print a lot of the same photo(s) for stock, if you are circumventing a 24 hour cleaning cycle you'd be better off using a purge sheet that balances ink usage, uses very little ink, and uses throw-away copy paper so you can be sure you are doing enough to circumvent that 24 hour cleaning cycle (they put that there for a reason) and just print what you need when you need it.
In addition, you can already print one photo a day using the mentioned spool and cool option which should be adequate for this niche workflow.
Mike
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