Checking the Quality of CD Duplication

WrittenBy:Carl Ringwall

1. Only print the necessities.
Before printing any particular selection of a document, evaluate itsvalue and importance so that you waste no time printing things that may notbe useful. To the point, only print what is absolutely necessary to save the amount of ink printer cartridges and paper being used. The lessink that is used for each print job, the longer that cartridge for printer willlast. Also, information that can be backed upon disks, instead of printing, needs to be saved. Utilize CDs, DVDs, or external hard drives to back up your documents and files instead ofprinting them. Reports and emails generally shouldn't be printed unless you really need them. There should never be a need to print jokes or novelty items. Printing these items wastes money in ink printer cartridges and paper.

2. You should print text instead of graphics.
Printing documents or reports for review later can be helpful, but you should only print the necessary text and anyother items that are required. Avoid printing pictures, images, graphs, or colorful charts if having a paper copy is not necessary.

3. Utilize the Print Preview function.
Print Preview is a very helpful tool that gives a snap shot of how the finished document will look once printed. Print preview can help you manipulate text,characters, and spacing and decide which pages or selections need to be printed. Think aboutdisabling your color ink printer cartridges, selecting only the pagesyou'll need hard copies of, and the text that is absolutely required - specifically the last page with the footer that you get with each print job. This dramatically reduces the amount of ink used, in addition to the amount of paper used.

4. Print text only with the black ink printer cartridges(disable the color cartridge).
Print text documents that are just black and white and no color with only the black ink printer cartridges. Always select black and white printing instead of color printing when possible. It will depend on the type of printeryou are using but there may be the ability to choose grayscale printing byutilizing only theblack ink cartridge. Grayscale is a lower resolution,but again, you can change it for your final document. If you are going to print black text withcolor ink printer cartridges, several colors are mixed and manipulatedto create black ink. This can deplete your colorink cartridge much more rapidly than it would deplete the black only ink cartridge. If you're notprinting quality work for a presentation or if you're printing text only, thereis a good chance you won't want or need the other colors.

5. If possible, print in draft mode.
Utilize thedraft print quality tool whenever possible. There are various options available. You mightdiscover different options under the heading 'Paper/Quality' that will let you select the draft option quality printing. The document will not print at the higher resolution, but that might not matter if you are just going to reference material that you probably won't need later. All you have to do is switch tothehigherresolution if youneed a finalversionof adocument.

If youcan utilizethese tips, you should quickly see substantial savings in ink printer cartridges and the cost associated with them.