How To Save Money On Ink Cartridges
April 14, 2008 – 8:42 pmInk cartridges can cost the earth. It’s not unusual for just a small home printer to take cartridges that cost upwards of $40 and some quite a bit more. And you won’t get much ink for all that money either. A few hundred pages later and you’re needing to buy another ink cartridge.
As someone who works on their computer for extended periods of time and prints out a lot of stuff (ebooks, things I’ve written, newsletters etc.) I decided to try looking for a more cost-effective way of running my printing.
The first tip, of course, is to read something on your computer screen if you can to save printing it out at all, but I prefer personally to print things out, kick back and relax in my easy chair while reading something meaty so you’re going to need to drop the cost of cartridges and, if possible, paper too.
Paper is pretty cheap to begin with in all honesty so the only tips here really are:
a) print on both sides of paper so it goes twice as far
b) order it in bulk from office supply companies where you should get a small discount
However the real magic comes in the cartridges. Over time, cartridge refilling companies have cropped up that will save you an arm and a leg. I now get 2 cartridges for just over the cost of 1 original so I’m saving almost 50% on my ink cartridge bill each month. Add in the small paper saving and over a year it turns into quite a monster figure!
Check your yellow pages or do a Google search for “cheap ink cartridges” or “cartridge refilling” to track down a whole load of options.
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