By using one or
more of the following techniques to reduce the amount of toner/ink used when
printing, not only will you increase the ppm of your printer but most
importantly you will save yourself money.
- Reducing printout dpi (dots-per-inch) - changing the dpi from 600 to 300. This method may result in about 5% -10% savings with a lighter output
- Reducing toner density levels - the printer will change the print density, for example, from 3 to 1. This method may generate 8% to 15% savings, with a much lighter output.
- Half toning - changing the colour from black to gray.
Changing your print
quality to any of these modes is easy to do and can be changed back at any time
for any official documents you may require to produce.
I will now demonstrate
how this can be done on three of the most popular brands of printer
manufactures, but the process is similar to all mail line printers.
1) Open ‘Control
Panel’ from you start menu and select Devices and Printers’.
2) On
the printer you wish to change, right mouse click and select Printer
Preferences.
3a) For HP printers select the ‘Paper/Quality’
tab and place a tick the selection box next to ‘Economode’ mode.
3b) For Brother printers select the
‘Advanced’ button, which will open a new window, and change toner save mode to
‘On’. Additionally you may chose to
lower the dpi which will save even more ink/toner.
3c)
For Konica Minolta printers you will need to select the ‘Quality’ tab and place
a tick in either the ‘Toner Save’ or ‘Draft Print’ selection box.
4) Once finished select the ‘OK’ button
followed by ‘Apply’.
The following printer have the toner save
mode included and can be purchased at a minimal cost.
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