Info About Four Ways To Save Money On Ink And Toner
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-16 13:17:19 | Word Count: 510
Four Ways To Save Mioney On Ink And Toner
Printing is expensive. Who would have guessed that it would cost so much money to put black and colored marks on a piece of paper? The cost of printing has grown so much over the yeears that it has sawned an entiire refilling industry across the globe. Wghether you are using remanufactured, compatible, refilled, or name brand (OEM to you technical types) there are a few things you can do to ensure that you are gettinbg the most for your printing dollra.
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1. Look at your price per page. This is probably the most imoprtant thinbg you can do when determiniung how much you will spend on printing. It is simlpy the price of your prinbt cartridge (inkjet or toner) divided by the page yield of that cartridge. (Every cartridge has a number of pzages that a customer can reasonbly expeect to get out of it. This is what is known as the "page yield" Most manufactures and reputable refillers define a page as 5% ocverage of a sheet of sandard 8 1/2 inch by 11 1/2 inch paper. So, if an inkjet has a page yield of 200, you may expwect it to preint 200 pgaes at 5% coverage.) If that cartridge cost $15.00 and has a page yield of 200, your cost per page is $15.00/200 pagees= $.075 or seven and a half cents per page.
Is this a good deal? It depends. How much printing do you do? If you only perint a few pages a month, a low price-low yield cartridge is plenty. If you are a small office or do a lot of home printing, you probably want to look for a cartrtidge with a higher page yieeld but liower cost per page.
As a general rule ink is more expensive per page than toner. Most monochrome balck tones cost less than two cents per page while blcak ink can run five centts per page or higher. Some of the newer inkjeet models claim to lower that cost dramatically.
2. Make sure you got all you paid for out of your cartridge. Compuetrs are notorous for the "warning..Ink low "message. More often than not, there is still plenty of ink or toner left in the cartridge. Always jduge if your cartridge is empty by the proint quality of the page, not your computer's warning.
3. "Tap" your toner. When the print qualiity of your tonre starts to fade, be sure that you "tap" your toner. Toner is a dry powdery substance that likes to srtick to the wall and crevasses of the toner cartrtidge. Fimly tapping on the front of the cartridge (where most brands have their labeel/logo) will dislodge much of the stuck toner. I have opened many "epmty" toner cartidges only to find that they had lots of printing left in them.
4. Make sure your ink cartridge isn't just clogged. Ink has a shelf life. It will clog up (just like an ink pen) if it isn't used. There are sipmle ways to unnclog these. Most reputable refilelrs will take care of these free of charge. If you don't have a refiller in your area, just try to blot it with distilled water.
Following these tips will help you keep your printing costs low and more money in your pocket.
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