Method for cooling down a printer, printer and software product

A method for cooling 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 cooling down the printer comprising the steps of:
• allowing the cleaning member and the cleaning zone to cool down to a predetermined cooling temperature, 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, continue the surface of the cleaning member being in moving contact with the surface of the image transfer member in the cleaning zone.