How to save money on printer ink.
Can you believe how inexpensive printers are these days! How can they afford to sell printers at that low cost? It's easy - you pay for the printer many times over with the price of ink. According to Kim Komando the cost of ink works out to be about $10,000 per gallon. So it is no wonder that printer manufacturers want you to do a lot of printing.
Kim Komando has some money saving tips to save you on printer ink expense.
- Use printer friendly pages, instead of printing save it as a file
- Print quality - use draft mode (use less ink)
- Green Print
- HP Smart Web Printing
- Change the default printer font to a font that uses less ink
An example of how to do that for an HP printer. - Refill your own ink cartridges
- Try off band ink - after market cartridges may vary in quality