I have an older Canon MG6320 ink jet printer with a touch interface.
Lately, my cats have decided sitting on the printer (one at a time) is a good idea. I’m fine with this – it keeps them off the desk, and they’re not going to break the printer. Even if they do, well, then I get to justify getting a new printer to my partner.
Anyway, when they get on the printer, invariably they step on the power “button”, which means I have to hit the power button to undo what they did:
- Turning on the printer takes rougly 1-2 seconds, and results in a short beep.
- Turning it off, even right after it was turned on, takes roughly 60 seconds, with the printer clicking and clacking and whirring and making all sorts of noises that attract cats.
I’ve taken to unplugging it when I don’t need it.
I hate printers.
Idk, I recently started using a Canon printer and so far it’s awesome, but it does warn against shutting it off improperly after it gets powered back on. I assume it cleans and parks the print head or something… But really I have no idea what it’s doing all that gnashing for.
On the plus side it’s been saying it’s out of ink… But let’s me keep printing and so far there’s plenty of ink left.