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21 Ways To Be Greener, More Productive and Cost Efficient With Your Printer
I came across a blog post today on Random Thoughts By Mark Rohde titled “14 Ways To Be Greener, More Productive and Cost Efficient With Your Printer“. Mark’s Post added added 7 additional steps to the post on Stepcase Lifehack titled “7 Ways to Be Greener and More Productive with your Printer”.
Here is their list so far:
- Keep Supplies at the point of use
- Print in “draft” mode to save ink
- Keep a scratch paper tray
- Make your printed documents come out in the proper order
- Use scratch paper by default and print on new paper only when necessary
- Label your printer’s particularities
- Just don’t print
- Set your printer to default to multiple pages per side
- Invest in a printer capable of duplexing
- Use a Laser Printer
- Choose a Multifunction Device
- Pause Your Print Que
- Take your print off the printer
- Just Don’t Print
Naturally, I have a few more tricks and hints that I would like to add to their lists!
15. Proofread your Documents - If you carefully proofread before you print, you can catch mistakes before any ink is wasted. Imagine printing out a giant batch only to go back and find out you misspelled a word. Run your spell checker and save yourself some time and ink.
16. Use your Print Preview Mode – Before you print, choose the “print preview” function on your printer. this will allow you to view the formatting and verify that the document looks the way it should.
17. Draft Mode – Set your printer default to Draft Mode. The documents will not look as crisp, but they are perfect for everyday use, or for printing out versions of a document as you refine it.
18. Print a Test Page – Before you send that giant. lengthy document to the printer, print one test page to make sure everything looks as it should. Print it on your scratch paper first, THEN print the whole document.
19. Make sure you’ve used your ENTIRE cartridge before you replace it with a new one – When your printouts become faded, or you see lines in your printing, run your printers cleaning cycle or maintenance utilities. You cartridge may not be empty. You may be amazed just how much life is still in it.
20. Use Remanufactured or Compatible Printer Cartridges – Buy Remanufactured or Compatible printer cartridges from a reputable online store and save up to 75% each time you replace your cartridges.
21. Avoid “Economy Cartridges” – The cartridge that came with your printer might not be the best value when it comes time to replace it. Printer Manufactures often ship a 1/2 full or economy cartridge with your new printer. Assuming that this is the only model number of cartridge that you can use in your printer can cost you BIG TIME. Be sure to check your manual. You may find that you can use another cartridge with as much as 300% more ink for just a few dollars more than that “economy” cartridge.
Follow these steps and put a little “green” in your green.
Inkjet and Laser Printable Father’s Day Cards
If you’re anything like me, the thought of heading out to the store a few days before the holiday and fighting the crowds in the greeting card aisle makes your hair stand up on end. That and the fact that I’m a huge procrastinator makes all holidays a little uncomfortable for me. I always wait until the last minute to do EVERYTHING. I guess I’m just not very good at it.
This year however it going to be different and I though I would share something that I found with all of you. Head on over to the HP Activity Center website. You’ll find some really great Father’s Day printable ideas! Check out these printable Father’s Day Cards. Just download the art and instructions, make sure you have a fresh ink cartridge, send it to your trusty printer and voila! Instant Father’s Day Card! Start to finish, this will take you about 5 minutes.
While you’re there, check out their other Father’s Day projects. They have Photo Father’s Day Cards, Father’s Day Iron Ons, Year at a Glance Calendars, and even Tool Silhouettes.
I’m still going to have the challenge of getting it all printed out, put in an envelope and sent off to Montana so it’s delivered before Sunday, but at least I didn’t have go down to the megamart and burn up some of this 4.00 per gallon gas!
Happy Fathers Day!
Kung Fu Panda – Inkjet Printable Crafts
Kung Fu Panda opens in theaters this Friday June 6th. This one is going to be really popular with the kids. HP has some really great Kung Fu Panda Printables and Crafts on their website.
Kung Fu Panda 3-D Paper Characters
Kung Fu Panda Temporary Tatoos
These are great ideas for summer fun. Most of these projects will require only your inkjet printer, a few extra printer ink cartridges and some heavy weight paper. Click here to view all of the Kung Fu Panda Crafts from HP. I know what my 5 year old and I will be doing for the next few nights!
HP Officejet Pro L7680 – My Picks for a Home Office Printer Part 3
The HP Officejet Pro L7680 is a real workhorse. The Officejet L7680 will print, scan, copy and fax all from a single device that will sit on your desktop. Talk about Productivity! It will print at speeds up to 35 pages per minute in black and up to 34 pages per minute in color. It has 2 paper trays that will hold up to 600 sheets, and includes a automatic document feeder. The Officejet L7680 has built in wired and wireless networking. It has enough memory to receive faxes up to 125 pages even if the power is off. The HP Officejet L7680 ink cartridges are another area where this one shines. The High Capacity Black cartridge will print 2350 pages. That is close to laser type capacity, and works out to about 1.4 cents per page. Overall, this is a great printer. You can print, scan, fax and copy all from one machine. It’s rated at 7500 pages a month so you’ll be sure it will handle any thing your home office can throw it’s way.
Quick Epson Ink Cartridge Tip
Want to improve the quality of your pictures on your Epson printer? Try these quick tips for better printing.
- Horizontal Lines? Run your printer’s Nozzle Check. You can find it on the maintenance tab in “printing preferences”
- Nozzle check indicating clogged nozzles? Run the Head Cleaning utility also found in “printer preferences”. You may have to run this utility up to 5 times even with genuine Epson ink cartridges
- Getting Vertical lines in your printout? Run the Epson Print Head Alignment function.
- Not printing in color? Check to make sure your printer is not set to print in “black only”, “draft”, or “text” modes.
- Missing one color? Run your Epson Utility to check the ink levels of your color ink cartridges. If color cartridges show sufficient ink levels, run the nozzle check utility to see if all colors are printing correctly.
- Paper – You may think that “paper is paper”. Wrong! You will achieve your highest quality prints on high quality paper.
In a nutshell, the Epson utilities are your friend. Get to know your way around the nozzle check function of your Epson printer. Your Epson printer is at it’s best when the nozzle check shows no gaps or missing lines.