There are so many eco-friendly printing tips that every office or home can apply nowadays to save on the printing costs. The most common is using remanufactured printer cartridges which are known to cut expenses in printing by up to 70%. However, there are also other ways that can be done together with using these supplies to even have more savings. A good example is duplex printing.Duplex printing, or commonly known as double-sided printing, is a type of printout made wherein both sides of the paper or material were used. This is one of the tips that can save on both the paper and the ink or toner since you use every space available to create your desired print.
So the next question is how can you apply duplex printing for your next printing job? Well, here are some helpful tips.
First of all, there are printers that already have features for duplex printing like a separate feeding tray for this type of print or an accessory included which is present in some HP printers. If your machine is one of the recently released, then you should check the manual for this option.
If you cannot find any option on your printer to do duplex printing, you can manually apply it by printing the odd pages first then the turn the paper so that the blank pages will be the ones that will have the even pages when you print again.
Aside from doing the duplex printing, check on your printing preference before finally hitting that “Print” button just to be sure that you won't have to repeat your file anymore and you also get the chance to save on your cartridges and paper too.
