False alert, catridge counts goes down, but my ink and film was good so i was using too little ink. Now tried with full settings it goes down to empty around 120-150cm.
However yes, printhead moves up before printing starts, it waits before feeding paper and adjust it. I opened the setting in driver. On acrorip 10.3 setting does not work, so printhead strikes nomatter what. With this setting it barely does not touch the film at full ink settings. Any minor mistake it will strike the film again. However once it is adjusted on auto shaker, it wont strike at all with thick paper setting.
I use 720*720 resolution, so print speed and quality is also good.