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‎10-10-2018 09:34 AM

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Product: Officejet 6600
Operating System: macOS 10.13 High Sierra

I will be traveling for 6-8 months and my ink jet printer (HP6600 Officejet) will sit idle. Should I remove the ink cartridges and store them in a plastic sandwhich bag in cool dry dark environment, or just leave them in the printer and turn the printer OFF? What's the recommended policy to not damage the printer or cartridges?

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‎10-10-2018 10:23 AM

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No, the worst thing you can do is to remove ink cartridges and leave your printer without ink cartridges.

 

6-8 months is a very long period, I would recommend you to leave your printer to someone who will use it from time to time, leaving printer unused for long period can cause print quality problems, and failing printhead.

 

For handling ink cartridges check user manual page 73 (read CAUTION) and 74.




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