Method for cooling down a printer, printer and software product

A method for shutting down a printer, the printer comprising:

• an endless image transfer member for receiving consecutive images of toner on its surface, the image transfer member being urged, in printing state of the printer, into moving contact with a counter member to form a transfer zone therebetween for transferring the respective consecutive images to respective sheets of a recording medium fed consecutively through the transfer zone;
• an endless cleaning member having, in a printing state of the printer, a surface in moving contact with the surface of the image transfer member in a cleaning zone downstream of the transfer zone, the surface of the cleaning member carrying a layer of tacky substance;
• wherein in the printing state the endless cleaning member and the cleaning zone having an elevated temperature, the method for shutting down the printer comprising the steps of:
• cooling down the printer, by allowing the cleaning member and the cleaning zone to cool down to a predetermined cooling temperature in a shutting down procedure, the predetermined cooling temperature being a temperature lower than the elevated temperature;
• during cooling down of the cleaning member and the transfer zone to the predetermined cooling temperature, maintaining a continuous moving contact between the surface of the cleaning member and the surface of the image transfer member in the cleaning zone.