Shave Down Expenses With Monochrome Printing
Every day we print things in color without thinking about the consequences. Every day, we might as well be printing away our money when we use color ink instead of black and white. Every day, we can reduce our company or home's expenses by using the black and white print setting.
Most printers these days have a setting on them. When you print your document, check for a tab called 'print properties', or 'advanced options'. Under this tab, look for an option called 'monochrome', 'economode' or 'grayscale'. This uses black ink instead of color ink, because it tells the printer to treat all color images as B&W images. Because color is not necessary for their comprehension, this is perfect for printing instructions, recipes, or directions.
Just because it looks like it's already in black and white doesn't mean it is, as dark purple, green or blue can fool you into using the color ink. Pick monochrome every time to be safe. Just to be safe, you should still set the printer setting to print color images in B&W.
This saves the color ink for the color ink printing that really needs color and ensures that the next time you have to replace an ink cartridge, it's a B&W ink cartridge instead of a Color one. The value of the ink saved can be very significant. For example, on 4inkjet.com, the replacement ink cartridge for my Canon Pixma MX310 will be $18.99 for the B&W cartridge and $24.99 for the Color cartridge, an immediate $6 savings. If I print quite a bit, the expenses associated with constantly replacing B&W cartridges over one annum versus color might be large.
For a professional laserjet printer, the expense saving may rise even more. If you're buying replacement laser loner for the Xerox Phaser 8860, for example, the laser toner replacement will cost 144$.99 on 4inkjets.com, while replacing the three color components will sum up to $164.97, an almost $20 savings.
All you have to do is pick the monochrome printing option when color isn't needed, and encourage your officemates to do the same, and the ink expenses will decrease quickly.
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