| How to Save Printer Ink? Ten Tips to Save Printer Ink | | | | 5. Take time to power down your printer the right way. |
| and Toner Usage. | | | | Otherwise, you will be cutting off the power while the |
| Ink is the most expensive liquid money can buy. For the | | | | print heads are not in the right position, meaning the ink |
| price of one milliliter of black ink you can get 3 milliliters | | | | will dry up faster |
| of Prada Atomizer Perfume, or 20 milliliters of Dom | | | | 6. Make sure you proofread and double check the |
| Perignon Champagne (1998) or a gallon of gas. | | | | page before you print. If you look over the copy once |
| The Ink-onvenient Truth | | | | it prints out and are dissatisfied, that is wasted printer |
| - One and a half billion ink cartridges and 350 million | | | | ink, right there. Not to mention, wasted paper. |
| laser cartridges are dumped every year, a figure that | | | | 7. If you are not planning on submitting the print outs as |
| increases by 12% every year. | | | | a report or project, skip the color and use |
| - It takes nearly a gallon of fossil oil to produce one | | | | monochrome black ink instead |
| laser cartridge and 2.5 ounces of oil to manufacture | | | | 8. Always use the draft setting. The draft setting in |
| one ink cartridge, not counting the energy required in | | | | your printer options is really one of the best ways to |
| the production process. | | | | save ink. It makes it so the printer prints much faster |
| - Each toner cartridge becomes 3.5 pounds of solid | | | | than normal and the amount of ink used per page is |
| waste.The total weight of these cartridges is | | | | much less than if you printed at a normal setting. |
| equivalent to the weight of 112,463 Volkswagen | | | | 9. Remember to print pages that you only need. There |
| Beetles per year. | | | | is no point in printing pages and throwing it to the |
| - The typical cartridge is composed of 40% plastic, | | | | garbage. |
| 40% metal and smaller percentages of rubber, paper, | | | | 10. And last but not the least, use a good optimized |
| foam and toner. Dumped in the landfill, it can take up to | | | | printer software such as Preton Saver which could |
| 450 years to decompose. | | | | save the printer ink and toner usage by 70% |
| So How to save printer ink? | | | | What is Preton Saver? |
| In order to save our planet, printer ink and money, you | | | | PretonSaver is a software solution that drastically |
| can follow these 10 easy tips. Save printer ink and | | | | reduces ink and toner consumption, thereby saving you |
| toner usage instantly. | | | | money and helping save the planet. And, it does it |
| 1. Always use "Print Preview" before you print. This is | | | | without compromising on quality, which is great! |
| especially helpful when printing things from the Internet. | | | | Preton Saver Home saves as much as 70% on your |
| Images can be shifted around, whole pages can be | | | | ink and toner costs without compromising on quality, |
| blank and there can be just generally disorganized. A | | | | and extends the cartridge yield by up to 100%. Based |
| quick preview can help make sure all is well. | | | | on a unique patent-pending Pixel Optimizer technology, |
| 2. Print pages only you need. There is no use in printing | | | | it uses advanced algorithms to identify and delete |
| out graphics and text you have no use for. If printing | | | | pixels that are not necessary to maintain the high |
| off the Internet, simply highlight the text you wish to | | | | quality level printing, dramatically reducing toner and ink |
| print and then print it. | | | | by applying different savings levels for each page you |
| 3. If you are not gonna use your printer for a long | | | | print. |
| time,you will end up drying your ink cartridge. So keep | | | | What is Pixel Optimizer Technology? |
| them alive by printing test pages atleast once in a | | | | Printer and computer screens use pixels (dots) to |
| week | | | | describe data (text, graphics and images). Yet there is |
| 4. For not so important everyday work, you can use a | | | | a difference between the screen and printer pixels. |
| generic ink cartridge which could save you a lot of | | | | The screen pixel is square, while the printer pixel is |
| money. While you will not necessarily get more ink out | | | | round. |
| of a generic cartridge than you would with a | | | | The round printer pixels overlap and create ink and |
| manufacturer brand OEM print cartridge, you will most | | | | toner overuse. |
| definitely save money. | | | | |