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Aleik
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« on: May 19, 2021, 06:37:24 AM »
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 »
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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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2021, 11:12:13 AM »
Wow, thanks so much Mike!
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« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2025, 11:40:03 AM »
Quote from: admin on May 20, 2021, 02:34:15 PM
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 »
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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« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2025, 08:30:03 PM »
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 »
Quote from: skyer on May 05, 2025, 08:30:03 PM
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.

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« Reply #7 on: Today at 08:11:23 AM »
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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