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Get More Out of Your Ink Cartridges

Apparently, ink is the most expensive liquid on the planet. If it were sold in gallons it would be more expensive than Channel perfume, oil, wine - you name it. This is an issue for both individuals and businesses. Especially as the value of the dollar drops every day and our dollar does not buy near what it used to. Unfortunately, it appears things will get much worse. There are many sure ways to save money such as brown bagging instead of eating out for lunch, carpooling, and cutting our 1,000 cable channels to the basic 150 channels. Most population don't think about the cost of their ink until they need new cartridges. Here are a few ideas to help you get more out of your cartridges.

1. Only print what you easily need a hard copy of. I prefer to read a long email or document on paper rather than scroll page after page on a computer screen, but doing just that will expand the cartridge life. Instead of printing receipts or invoices so you can file them in your file cabinet, think about developing an e-file system. You can file by date development it easy to retrieve files and more difficult to spill your Diet Coke on them. There are many fellowships and software that furnish back-up services to ensure that your files are never lost or destroyed. External hard-drives are relatively cheap and have the ability to store endless amounts of data.

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2. Print at least one page per week. This sounds counter-intuitive, but by printing on a quarterly basis your cartridge print-heads will stay fresher and you will get a larger ration of the ready ink. For many people, printing at least a page per week is done by Monday morning. However, if you are one of those population who rarely use their printer - doing this will give you a longer cartridge life. Try printing the configuration page or the demo page in your printer menu. This will print a slight of every color and keep your print-heads from drying out.

3. Use your printer's "Print-head Cleaning" function. Most cartridges, new or refilled, will want using this function every once in a while to mouth the ability of your prints. If you have never used this function there are a combine of ways to do this. If your printer is connected to a computer you can run this from your computer. Go into the Start menu and pick Printers and Faxes. Once you locate your printer, right click on it and scroll down to Properties and left click. From here there may be a Maintenance tab at the top or go to the advanced tab. Look for the Print-head Cleaning function and run it. Most printers also have the ability to achieve a print-head cleaning from the printer itself. Either through a blend of pressing dissimilar buttons or through the Menu or Settings buttons. See your printer's execution by hand for complete details - every printer is a slight different. One word of caution - using this function excessively will ultimately drain your cartridges. So use this function in moderation.

4. Only print in black unless color is necessary. As is the case in most printers, your black cartridge is less expensive and holds more ink than your color cartridge/cartridges. So printing using only the black cartridge as often as potential will cost you less in the long run. There are a combine of ways to go about this. Most printers will open a window each time you press print. Click on the Properties button and select Gray-scale. Some printers also have an advanced setting that allows you to default all printing to black and white when selected. This is another function that is best described by referencing your execution manual. However, if you are printing only in black and white you need to upgrade to a monochrome laser printer, which will drive down the cost of your printing dramatically.

If you begin using just one or two of these ideas you will consideration a dissimilarity in how long your cartridges last and a longer gap in the middle of each ink purchase. Ink is not the only controllable expense, but it is an cost that we do have some operate over.

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