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Get more prints from your cartridge

May 24, 2005 by Frank

One of the easiest ways to make your ink or toner cartridge print more is to use draft mode for printing. Draft printing is suitable for non-essential or not so important printouts. The quality of draft mode printouts vary between printers – some look not that different to normal mode while others are either very dotty or quite faint. Some of our customers get double the number of pages out of a cartridge using draft mode! The printer I use at home, a Lexmark Optra S, is set on ‘light’ mode and the prints come out just as well as in ‘normal’ mode (i.e. indistinguishable unless you use a loupe). To set your printer on ‘light’, ‘draft’, ‘toner saver’ or ‘ink saver’, check the options on your printer driver, or, if your printer has a console menu you may find it there. If in doubt, do a Google search with your printer name & the words ‘draft mode’.


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