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How To Save Printer Ink? Ten Tips To Save Printer Ink And Toner Usage

How to Save Printer Ink? Ten Tips to Save Printer Ink and Toner Usage.

Ink is the most expensive liquid money can buy. For the price of one milliliter of black ink you can get 3 milliliters of Prada Atomizer Perfume, or 20 milliliters of Dom Perignon Champagne (1998) or a gallon of gas.

The Ink-onvenient Truth

• One and a half billion ink cartridges and 350 million laser cartridges are dumped every year, a figure that increases by 12% every year.
• It takes nearly a gallon of fossil oil to produce one laser cartridge and 2.5 ounces of oil to manufacture one ink cartridge, not counting the energy required in the production process.
• Each toner cartridge becomes 3.5 pounds of solid waste.The total weight of these cartridges is equivalent to the weight of 112,463 Volkswagen Beetles per year.
• The typical cartridge is composed of 40% plastic, 40% metal and smaller percentages of rubber, paper, foam and toner. Dumped in the landfill, it can take up to 450 years to decompose.

So How to save printer ink?

In order to save our planet, printer ink and money, you can follow these 10 easy tips. Save printer ink and toner usage instantly.

1. Always use "Print Preview" before you print. This is especially helpful when printing things from the Internet. Images can be shifted around, whole pages can be blank and there can be just generally disorganized. A quick preview can help make sure all is well.
2. Print pages only you need. There is no use in printing out graphics and text you have no use for. If printing off the Internet, simply highlight the text you wish to print and then print it.
3. If you are not gonna use your printer for a long time,you will end up drying your ink cartridge. So keep them alive by printing test pages atleast once in a week
4. For not so important everyday work, you can use a generic ink cartridge which could save you a lot of money. While you will not necessarily get more ink out of a generic cartridge than you would with a manufacturer brand OEM print cartridge, you will most definitely save money.
5. Take time to power down your printer the right way. Otherwise, you will be cutting off the power while the print heads are not in the right position, meaning the ink will dry up faster
6. Make sure you proofread and double check the page before you print. If you look over the copy once it prints out and are dissatisfied, that is wasted printer ink, right there. Not to mention, wasted paper.
7. If you are not planning on submitting the print outs as a report or project, skip the color and use monochrome black ink instead
8. Always use the draft setting. The draft setting in your printer options is really one of the best ways to save ink. It makes it so the printer prints much faster than normal and the amount of ink used per page is much less than if you printed at a normal setting.
9. Remember to print pages that you only need. There is no point in printing pages and throwing it to the garbage.
10. And last but not the least, use a good optimized printer software such as Preton Saver which could save the printer ink and toner usage by 70%

What is Preton Saver?

PretonSaver is a software solution that drastically reduces ink and toner consumption, thereby saving you money and helping save the planet. And, it does it without compromising on quality, which is great!

Preton Saver Home saves as much as 70% on your ink and toner costs without compromising on quality, and extends the cartridge yield by up to 100%. Based on a unique patent-pending Pixel Optimizer technology, it uses advanced algorithms to identify and delete pixels that are not necessary to maintain the high quality level printing, dramatically reducing toner and ink by applying different savings levels for each page you print.

What is Pixel Optimizer Technology?

Printer and computer screens use pixels (dots) to describe data (text, graphics and images). Yet there is a difference between the screen and printer pixels. The screen pixel is square, while the printer pixel is round.

The round printer pixels overlap and create ink and toner overuse.

Pixel Optimizer  technology comes to the rescue and intelligently removes overlapped pixels.The spaces left by the removed pixels are covered by excess toner/ink from adjacent pixels … with no image degradation. 

Visit Preton Saver for a Free Trial and start saving on printer ink and toner usage instantly by 70%

About the Author

Tom Parks works for Microsoft. He is currently researching on PC optimization and system security. He is also an avid gamer and owns xbox, PS3, Nintendo Wii, Dsi and PSP.