From the start: printer with foresight to buy
Printers have become cost very cheap, but they Finance, often through expensive ink cartridges.
- You look for when buying a new printer on ink consumption. The CHIP Online purchase advice helps you.
- Check before buying how expensive new ink cartridges and if it is possible, these self-refill.
- When buying new cartridges, you don't have to resort necessarily to branded products, No-Name products are in comparison usually cheaper. Do not, however, of too-cheap Import products as these can damage your printer.
- Some manufacturers offer a printer, in which the individual colors can be replaced. This allows you to buy more of these colours specifically when you tend to an end.
- Pay particular attention to the price per printed page will have to pay. You can find this often in Test items or through the manufacturer of the information.
Less printer ink, use the draft mode to use
The draft mode or economy mode you can select when Printing under "printer properties".
- The draft mode increases the print speed and uses less ink.
- The print quality is reduced in the design mode, however, this is also from your printer. Good printers in the design mode can be used almost genausp well as the normal pressure, in the case of older printers, it can, in part, to an uneven printed image or Smears.
- The ink consumption and the associated printing costs reduce greatly, but it depends on what quality you want to achieve.
- In the case of documents intended for you, it is recommended that the draft mode is a very to - for hard copies of important documents, for example, in the office, it is less suitable.
For more printer tips to save money
The printing costs you can reduce by simple Tricks.
- If you are printing documents only for reading, it is often useful to reduce the font size, so you save on ink and paper.
- Black-and-white printing is usually cheaper, than to use up the color cartridges. Just for the domestic use of this switch is useful.
- Double-sided Printing or print several pages of a cross on a sheet, saves you costs in printing paper.
- Printer to often show early on that printer cartridges are empty. You have to change the cartridges, however, only if quality declines can be seen.
- You print regularly! In order to prevent the cartridges from drying out and for you to change.
Another tip: With the correct Font can also save ink
