Inkjets give amazing quality, but every one I have ever used, except very expensive professional photo printers, suffer from the same problem. Unless they're used regularly (in some cases, every day) the heads WILL clog sooner or later. This gets really annoying at best, and expensive at worst.

Laser printers don't have quite the same quality, especially for photos, but you can at least leave them off for months, turn them on, and print. If you do a lot of printing they become much cheaper per page as well.

The thing to be careful is to be sure that the paper is dry. The only trouble I normally have is if the paper has been stored in such a way that it can get a little damp, such is in a cupboard on a concrete floor. Then it tends to stick together, and you get paper feed problems. The same thing can happen if the printer is in an area with high humidity.

Keep them dry and warm and they work for a very long time, particularly the heavy-duty industrial class ones.

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