Every day we print off pages in with color ink without regard for the results. Every day, we throw money out the door by using color ink that should have been black and white. Every day, we could reduce expenses for our company or in our home by using black and white printing.

Generally, printers will have a setting that can be enabled in the print settings. When it’s time to print, check your print options for something indicating ‘advanced properties’. Under this tab, look for an option called ‘monochrome’, ‘economode’ or ‘grayscale’. This allows the printer to operate as if your color images were actually B&W images and use black ink to print them out instead of color ink. This is ideal for printing on instructions, directions or recipes from the internet, because color is not required for those kinds of resources to be used.

Also remember, when you have a web document, sometimes it looks like it’s in monochrome already, but it’s actually a dark blue, green or purple. Setting the color images to print in monochrome is still a good idea to play it safe.

This saves the color ink for the color ink printing that really needs color and ensures that the next time you have to replace an ink cartridge, it’s a B&W ink cartridge instead of a Color one. This cost savings can be significant. For example, on 4inkjet.com, the replacement ink cartridge for my Canon Pixma MX310 will be $18.99 for the B&W cartridge and $24.99 for the Color cartridge, an immediate $6 savings. If I do a lot of printing, the cost of replacing B&W cartridges over the year instead of color cartridges could be significant.

For a professional laserjet printer, the expense saving may rise even more. If you’re buying replacement laser loner for the Xerox Phaser 8860, for example, the laser toner replacement will cost 144$.99 on 4inkjets.com, while replacing the three color components will sum up to $164.97, an almost $20 savings.

If you ensure that everyone in your workplace can pick the B&W options when printing, the ink costs will go down quickly.

I like 4inkjets.com for all my cheap ink cartridges needs.

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