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With seemingly everyone working hard to come up with new ways to make their dollars stretch further, I thought it might be helpful to share a few money-saving tips of my own. The three techniques listed below will enable you to help extend the life of your printer’s laser toner or ink cartridges.

#1) Don’t let your cartridge dry up! Not surprisingly, this tip is especially important for people living in areas with low humidity and at high altitude. And thankfully, keeping cartridges fresh and preventing dry-out is simple; just make sure to use your printer to print out at least one page per week.

#2) Print just the text you want! If you’re looking to print out a selection of text from a webpage, there’s no reason to print out absolutely everything you see on the screen (extra text, graphics, photos, etc.). Simply highlight the selection of text you’d like to print, go to File > Print, and then in the dialogue box that pops open, make sure to choose “Selection” before clicking the Print button.

#3) Reduce the default print quality! Unless you need to print high-quality pages on a regular basis, you can easily save ink/toner by setting your printer’s default print quality to “Draft”. Making this change is simple, but the process varies from computer to computer. The steps in this online article should work for most PC printers: http://tinyurl.com/avp9fu.