[zaroth]

I have a Brother laser printer which is used for almost everything, and a Canon inkjet for the occasional color print.

I’m pretty sure my Canon inkjet uses more ink when idle than when I occasionally use it to actually print something. Quite sad.

I do wonder where it all physically goes tho. After years of seeing my cheapo cartridges just “evaporate” whatever reservoir the printer has for cleaning the heads and purging ink must be well and fully saturated at this point?!

[Brian_K_White]

huge sponges and felt blocks. not kidding.

[nebula8804]

Yes and the printer has an internal counter keeping track of how much it has dumped into the sponge. After a long time it will stop and require disassembly of the printer and a reset procedure to rectify this.