Ink cartridges are expensive necessities for all those printer owners. If you are not careful, buying ink cartridges can make a hole in your pocket. To make it more economical and affordable, you need to follow a few strategies that can help you curb your monthly expenditure on buying ink cartridges for regular use. Please take a moment to read the following tips on making your ink cartridge last longer:


1. Determining printing purpose

Before printing a document make sure that you know and understand what you want to print. There can be a group of graphics on the document that you might not need to print out. Doing this on a regular basis can dramatically extend the life of your ink cartridge.

2. Use color when needed

The majority of documents that you print are in black and white. Before you print a document make sure that the printing settings read “Black and White Document”

3.  Not too hot and not too cold

The ink inside ink cartridges is very sensible to temperature changes. If the temperature is either to cold or too hot, the ink can dry up easily.

4.  Printer Settings

If you are printing a general document, you should always set your printer settings to draft. Less ink is used up when the printer is put in this setting.

5. Using your printer constantly

Using your ink constantly prevents the ink from drying up, because it keeps the ink moving.

6. Print Preview

Print preview function is a useful feature that can help you in giving a preview of how the document will look like after been printed. Use this feature to organize your document before printing it out. This can help in reducing the amount of times that you print your document for revisions.

7. Keep inkjet printers on

Every time an inkjet printer is turned on and activated it undergoes a process that uses up ink. If you keep your printer on, you are saving ink. Don’t worry about the electric bill either, since inkjets are the most economical printing devices, in terms of power consumption.