Hi August,

On 03-Jun-03, August Abolins wrote to George White:

 GW>> Canon seem to go in for a cleaning cycle every power up, so a
 GW>> cartridge will get used up just by turning the printer on every
 GW>> day without any printing (the cleaning cycle is about a page
 GW>> worth of ink I'm told).

 AA> Where does the ink (during cleaning) go?

On the used Canon cartridge I saw (some years ago) there was a wad of
cotton wool (or something similar) inside the cartridge which was
partly blackened by the ink. I assume there is some mechanism in the
printer itself to deflect the ink onto the cotton wool instead of out
through the front. I doubt if things have changed much in the last 6
years.

George

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