Saving Money on Printing

Printing is big thing nowadays, especially with the people who want the hard copy of everything that is super long. Printing is energy consuming and uses a lot of paper (depends the length of the document you're using). Depending on the ink, paper, and printer you're using, printing also costs you money. Below are some tips on printing to help you save money on printing.

1. Ecofont

Ecofont is a special font that you can download. Its primary purpose is to help save ink by punching little holes (although you can see them if you make the font too big).It can help you save up to 20% of the ink normally, and also, the text still stays readable.

If you don't want to, you can simply just not use super big and bulky fonts. A good font I like is Century Gothic, which saves a considerable amount of ink.

2. Printing on Both Sides of the Sheet of Paper

This one helps you save paper as it cuts the amount of paper you need in half. If your printer has the option of printing double sided, use it! It can help you save up to $20 dollars per year on average.

3. Proofread Your Paper

Before you print, proofread your paper first before you print because if you print and you see a mistake, you're going to have to print it again and use up some ink.

4. Change Your Printer Settings

Printers use up a lot of ink per page, so changing a few things from your printing settings before you print them out may be worth considering.

• Change the print quality to draft- not everything you print has to be suitable for framing, right?
• If you can, change the printing to black and white- black is cheaper than the other color inks.

5. Only print what you need

If you want to print an article or something off the internet, chances are that there will be stuff on that page that you don't want. To solve this, go to www.printwhatyoulike.com and delete the ads and other stuff you don't need.

6. Don't Throw Away the Cartridge Yet

When the printer says "No Ink Left" most likely there's still a bit left in the cartridge  that you can use. Justn a tip to consider.

7. Try to Bypass it Entirely

To save ink and paper, try to bypass printing entirely. Use a pdf virtual printer which converts what you have to a pdf that you can email to other people. Get a hard copy of the document only when you absolutely need it.

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