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 will allow you to change a setting. When it’s time to print, check your print options for something indicating ‘advanced properties’. Under this tab or the main print settings page, look for a option to print in monochrome, economode or grayscale printing. 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.
Keep in mind, sometimes dark blue, green or purple may masquerade as black, so pick the black and white just to be safe, even if it looks ok. 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. This could be a significant savings if I do a lot of printing over the course of say, one year..
On larger, profession laserjet printers, the cost savings can be even higher. For example, black laser toner replacement cartridges for the Xerox Phaser 8860 will run $144.99 on 4inkjets.com, while replacing the three color components will sum up to $164.97, an almost $20 savings.
If you ensure that everyone in your workplace can pick the B&W options when printing, the ink costs will go down quickly.
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