I have a 48" ValueJet. Had it for about 2 months now. Was just told by the tech that I should leave it on 24/7 so the auto clean can do it's thing.
Just seams weird to me to leave it running 24/7. I mean, the fans will never turn off and it just seams like things would get worn/burnt out faster that way.
or am I just being paranoid? I mean.... I am just getting into the printing aspect so I just don't know any better.
You'll get about equal responses from the turn it off people as well at the let it stay on contingent.
Here's a data point... For lo these many years, about 8 or so, I have turned off my ValueJet 1204 and its predecessor, a Mutoh Falcon outdoor when I'm not actually printing anything. During those years I never experienced one, as in zero, problems that were not directly attributable to normal expected wear and normal if not longer than predicted MTBF. That would be Mean Time Between Failure, a standard term used in virtually all technology involving artifacts. Roughly calculated as a factor of actual power on time, not calendar time.
I turn the machine on when I want to print and tun it off when I'm done printing. I try to keep it as clean as humanly possible. I clean it on a schedule based on throughput not necessarily any particular time schedule. On those days where it might sit I always, every day, do a test print of a single line up to 40-some inches wide, depending on whatever scrap media I have at hand, of 1/2" squares of C,M,Y, & K. If it is idle for more than a couple or three days or whatever, which is rarely, I run a normal clean cycle before the obligatory test print.
I have no data with which to compare my experience with a turned on all the time machine other than what I might glean from this and other sites. I don't seem to experience even a fraction of the problems that others regularly report. I have also save a pant load of money not buying ink to be used in what appears to me to be way too much cleaning.
As noted, this is but one data point. Your mileage may vary.
