Is Your Printer Wasting Your Ink & Money?
Everyone's been there: You just bought an expensive ink cartridge for your printer, you use it for a while, and then suddenly--much sooner than seems reasonable--your printer tells you that you're either low on or out of ink.
Suspicious of the amount of ink wasted by adhering to the low ink warnings of popular printers, PC World Magazine recently hit the lab, testing just how much ink is left in "dead" cartridges.
The results:
"Many manufacturer-branded (OEM) and third-party (aftermarket) vendor cartridges leave a startling amount of ink unused when they read empty. In fact, some inkjet printers force users to replace black ink cartridges when the cartridge is nearly half full."
In most cases, printers were more apt to call it quits early on third-party cartridges, obviously the printer manufacturer's best effort to scare you away from using third party cartridges.
But you can do a lot to offset high cost of printing. Of course, you could refill your ink cartridges yourself, but that could be quite messy.
The number one offender when it comes to wasting ink and paper is printing out web pages, usually because you end up printing half empty pages or worse.
HP Smart Web Printing Utility (free) and GreenPrint (Free version) are designed to help you cut down on wasted pages when printing online content. Give them a try!
PS- GreenPrint has a full video tutorial available here
You also get to feel good about cutting down your enviro footprint! Good times all around:)
All the Best,
-Dave
PCTuneUpTips.com
Saanich, BC CANADA
From PCTuneupTips #3 Newsletter:2-20-09
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