Inkjet printer using up too much ink?

Do you have an inkjet printer that you rarely use and yet seem to be going through ink even though you're not using it? The ink isn't drying up....

To keep the jets on your inkjet from clogging, your printer will every now and then spray ink through them. Sometimes you'll hear your printer make a noise randomly. Generally this is what it's doing.

All this ink gets sprayed through the printer and ends up in a reservoir in the bottom of your printer. There it will just sit and collect. Eventually you might get an error message with your printer stating it needs servicing. What it needs is this reservoir emptied out.

So next time you buy that expensive ink, remember that generally 1/3 of it might end up in this reservoir if you don't use your printer a lot.