Spending a small fortune on inkjet ink and/or laser-printer toner cartridges? Web Worker Daily offers a simple but effective tip on cutting consumable costs:
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.
The author explains how to accomplish this on both Windows and Mac systems. He also suggests refilling empty cartridges rather than replacing them. Instead of doing this manually, you can take them to one of the many retail stores now offering printer cartridge-swapping (you give them your empty one, they give you a filled replacement — usually for about half the price of new). This is not a bad way to go; I’ve used RapidRefill in the past and had good luck with them. What about you? Share your ink/toner experiences in the Comments!
