Top 7 Printers With The Highest Maintenance Cost

Printer maintenance cycles usually consume an amount of ink or toner, much more than what you have used for printing files and documents. An example of printer maintenance is the print head cleaning, this literally consumes ink from the cartridges. Unless you're suspecting that the nozzles are not delivering enough ink and you're sure about the dots, faint and white lines are due to a clogged print head, don't waste ink from running a print head cleaning. Also, a user may confirm the problem by running the Nozzle Check Utility software provided with the printer, this will help save inks. Take note that it's not proper to run any of these two utility software particularly the Head Cleaning and Nozzle Check, while a file is being printed, otherwise, all files in queue along with the file in progress can be damaged.

Approximately, about 10-25% of inks from the cartridges are wasted each time you clean the print heads. This happens since the cleaning cycle needs to be repeated depending on the test result. Usually, one or two trials may not work, some users have tried a dozen times but never did resolve it.

While there are instances, but not yet proven, wherein the printer after not being used for like a day, suddenly works perfectly as if nothing happen and the clogged print head problem disappear. This can be explained by the fact that inks commonly get dried, turning the printer ON for a moment, run a print head cleaning once, then turn it OFF, and after several hours the inks soften inside the cartridges. Hence, the next day you check the printer, even you don't run any maintenance cycle, it will work just fine.

Here's a trivia related to this post, HP printers are built with two general inkjet print head designs, these are the Integrated Print Head (IPH) and Individual Ink Cartridges (IIC). Either of these designs, when hp inkjet cartridges replacements are installed in the printer, a start-up routine and calibration process will run which also eat up some inks.

From a test conducted by Consumer Reports, these are the printers with the highest maintenance cost :

• HP Officejet Pro 8600
• Lexmark OfficeEdge Pro4000
• HP Photosmart 7520
• Epson Expression Photo XP-850
• Canon Pixma MX922
• HP Photosmart 6520
• Canon iP7220, iP7250 

If you happened to own any printer from the list above, it's either you switched to a more efficient and budget friendly print device, or you'll keep it and will avoid running maintenance cycle as much as possible.

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