Yes, it does go through a cleaning from time to time when powering-up as that helps maintain a clean pathway for ink. This helps reduce ink clogs and/or general ink build-up as it wipes itself and spits out ink. The whole purpose is to reduce problems and be able to print. ALL inkjets have this quirk and its best not to defeat it or problems will arise. Yes, keeping it powered-up does refrain from the actual power-ON cycling but even then left on, it should cycle through depending on its own 'monitoring s/w' plus it should at least 'park itself' when idle after x-time. replacing an empty ink caret is best after being system told, thus it maintains a 'wet ink pathway' as optimum level of operation.
Hope this helps explain things, good luck with your new printer.
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I just received my multifunction printer and so far have made one copy and sent and received one fax.. and I have to say, I think this is an excellent machine.. Well priced, quality of printouts that exceeds what I expected. And I think im going to be very happy with this unit.
One thing Ive read is that people seem to be somewhat displeased with how quickly the unit goes through ink. And when one cartridge is low, the unit wont print until you replace it.. Even if you dont use color and do most of your copying and faxing in black, you still have to have all the ink cartridges installed, and fully accounted for. One of the reasons, I read, for the amount of ink being used is that every time you start the machine, it goes through a cleaning cycle which uses ink.
So, I was thinking, why not either keep the machine off all the time except when you need to make a copy or send a fax, assuming you dont use it all that often... Or, if you use it daily, instead of starting it up each day, why not just leave it on all the time.. That way, without triggering a daily nozzle cleaning ritual, perhaps the inks will last considerably longer.

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