How to Save on Printing Costs

[mandy]

If you print a lot of documents, and especially if you support a number of color printers, you’re aware of the staggering costs of ink and toner. The printer business works on the classic razors and razor blades business model, where the central device costs next to nothing, but blades, ink cartridges and toner cost a fortune. The good news is that by setting your printers to print standard documents in Draft mode, and then switching to better output quality only when you need to, you can save a bundle.

Especially on color inkjet printers, even on-the-fly tasks like printing out Mapquest driving directions can eat up a lot of color ink, because the directions tend to occupy half a page, and then you get several pages of annoying color advertising output. In this post, I’ll go over how to set Draft mode up for Windows and Mac users...

full article: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/19/how...#more-1053