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- Printers
- Mobile Printing & Cloud Printing
- ability to turn printer on remotely

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08-20-2016 12:03 PM
it would be a great feature to be able to turn the printer on remotely. I have several devices, laptops, computers throughout my house and my HP Envy 7640 is in the office and it is set to power down after a set time which I think is wise, but if I need to print something from my bedroom or kitchen, I have to walk to my office to turn the printer if it has powered down. It seems this should be an obvious feature. I can turn my wireless speakers on from my laptops and devices, why wouldn't this be considered a normal feature for a printer?
08-20-2016 01:03 PM
thank you for the quick reply. right after I sent the email, I realized that there was an auto off/on feature. so the printer was powering down after 15 minutes, and powering off after two hours. Disabling the power off feature solves my problme.
Thank you!
11-02-2017 05:45 PM
I beg to differ - for the home user this would be a great feature...
Unless the printer uses no electricity in sleep mode (which it goes into after powering up in what 2 hrs?) it would be a great help at cutting down on my energy use i.e. "Carbon Footprint".
As a home user or even a college student, where I am rarely printing, maybe twice a week, so in order for me to use less energy, I have to manually turn it off and on when I want to print.
so - how much energy is my printer using while sleeping? and how do i shorten the time before it goes back to sleep.
11-02-2017 07:06 PM
@Engineer_I_Am wrote:
so - how much energy is my printer using while sleeping? and how do i shorten the time before it goes back to sleep.
About 1.2 watts. Your fridge light uses more.