Tuesday, September 27, 2011

How To Save on Brother Toner or Ink?

Replacement cartridges are the biggest contributors to your monthly expenses especially when you are using genuine Brother toner or inkjet cartridges which can be very expensive. One of the reasons why you run out of Brother toner fast is that you print unnecessary documents. Thus, before you hit print, ask yourself: do I need to print this? In other words, think before you print.


If you are going to print a web page, make sure that you remove all the unnecessary texts and advertisements before you hit print. Some websites offer "print-friendly" version of each web page, without the large advertising banners and unneccesary texts. There are web tools that you can use to remove junk content in a web page before you print it. This includes printwhatyoulike.com, a web-based tool that let you print the good parts of any web page while skipping ads and other junks. You save Brother toner or ink when ads and other junks are not printed in the paper.

If you want to print just a snippet or few sentences or paragraphs from a web page or e-mail, you can copy them and paste them in a blank word document and hit print. In this way, you only print what is important to you or what you really need. By doing this, you save Brother ink or  toner.

Sometimes, it is not necessary to print pages in color. You might consider setting your printer to print in black & white or grayscale mode before you print documents with graphics . Of course, print in color mode if you are printing eye-catching presentation graphics or official documents, reports, contracts,etc.

You may also want to buy remanufactured Brother toner or inks to cut your printing cost and at the same time print as many pages as you want without sacrificing your budget. Remanufactured toner and inks are much cheaper than OEM cartridges because basically they are made from empty cartridges that have been expertly cleaned and refilled with brand new laser toner or ink. You can save up to 85% when you use remanufactured Brother toner and inkjet cartridges.