The Bite:
The one on your printer. Unless you're printing something superimportant, save ink and paper by using draft mode and, if it's an option, printing double-sided. Who could conscientiously object to that?
What's a draft no one should dodge?
05.17.2007
Submitted by tmeronek on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 12:01am.
The Benefits:
- Less waste. Each year, the world's discarded cartridges stacked end-to-end could circle the planet 3 times.
- Cash savings. It's not rocket science: if you print double-sided, you'll buy half as much paper, plus if you print 100 pages in 50% draft mode instead of regular mode, you'll save as much as $2.
- Faster printing. In a PC World test, a typical inkjet printed 12 ppm (pages per minute) in regular mode but cranked out 36 ppm in draft.
Personally Speaking:
Cricket wishes she could use draft mode for her paw prints.
Wanna Try:
- Set your printer (or print software) to draft and double-sided.
- GreenPrint - software that weeds out pages you don't want to print. PC-only ($35).
- WriteExpress InkSaver - software that lets you control the amount of ink your printer uses, helping you save up to 75% of your ink. PC-only ($35).
- HP Deskjet 6940dt Color Inkjet Printer - does automatic 2-sided printing ($165).
Kim Burgo and Tricia Patton
Cocktail Fact
In 2003, a magazine found that an average ink cartridge costs 7 times more by volume than vintage Dom Perignon champagne.
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Biters print most documents in draft mode, we'll use 20,000 fewer ink cartridges per year.
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