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Question posted by manfred67994 on September 9th, 2011

Should The White Ink Homogenizer Be Left On At All Times, Even If Not Printing,

switched over to white ink a couple of days ago, printing fine. Came in today and the homogenizer was running none stop making a loud noise. Turned it off but nervous that it should be left on. Help please!!

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