aho@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Ho) (10/02/88)
has anyone had experience with leaving an imagewriter ii printer
on for an extended period of time, such as several weeks? does
anyone know if this is especially damaging for the printer and
should therefore be avoided?
thanks
alex
Alex Ho
University of California, Berkeley aho@cory.berkeley.edu
...ucbvax!cory!ahodr@ski.UUCP (David Robins) (10/03/88)
In article <6101@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> aho@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Ho) writes: >has anyone had experience with leaving an imagewriter ii printer >on for an extended period of time, such as several weeks? does >anyone know if this is especially damaging for the printer and >should therefore be avoided? > We leave our IW II on all the time; ie. months at a time. It is on our UNIX box. No problem at all. It is turned off only for routine maintenance. In fact, the system manager of this system has heard that dot matrix printers lasted linger if left on all the time, due to less thermal cycling especially of the mechanical printhead parts. -- David Robins, M.D. (ophthalmologist / electronics engineer) Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, 2232 Webster St, San Francisco CA 94115 415/561-1705 (voice) {ihnp4,qantel,dual}!ptsfa!ski!dr The opinions expressed herein do not reflect the opinion of the Institute!