Print until a color stops printing ... otherwise you can be throwing away up to 10% of your ink. At $5000-6000 per gallon, I am very miserly about it.
The strategy I take when it comes to my R2400 and the flashing lights is that when the warning starts flashing, I check the status and see what the approximate state of all the tanks is. I start watching the report of "the printer has enough ink to pring X number of prints like the last one". I make sure I have a replacement tank handy for the one already flashing plus any others that look to be close ... if when it stops printing, one or two others are flashing AND another one or two look very close, I *might* change 'em all out as the purge and cycle after installing a new cart will often take the ones that are *almost* flashing and suck them near dry, which will waste more ink on the purge and cycle when I replace those half an hour later. I always stock up on inks for a basic inventory of three cartridges in each color, and reorder when I only have one spare in any color left. This way I'm never in a situation where I run out in the middle of a printing job and then have to break my concentration, run to a local store, and pay 20% more to get done with my job. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
