Comments on: 3 Eco-Friendly Ways to Save Printer Ink

By: 6 Innovative Ways to Save Trees Online

6 Innovative Ways to Save Trees Online — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:35:23 +0000

[...] Plant more trees, and reduce usage of paper. If you’re looking to save paper, do check out this post on 3 eco-friendly ways to save ink and paper. The more effective your printing becomes, the less tress you [...]

By: jhaded10

jhaded10 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:02:52 +0000

this is interesting. thank you for the information. please read this for more tips regarding ink saving

http://www.myofficeportal.org/how-to-save-your-open-ink-cartridges.htm

By: HIP

HIP — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:55:57 +0000

Interesting article, i sahll download that app immediately, thanks.

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:22:16 +0000

Thanks for the quick tip Tom!

By: Tom Harris

Tom Harris — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:53:46 +0000

For any printer try InkSaver.com. They give a 2 week tryout and you can set the amount of ink to use for the application you need. I have used this wonderful program for over 4 years as you only need 100% ink use for photo printing.I also have been able to use it on Lasers useing FinePrint as the middle program then it goes to the printer.

By: Saravanan Sahadevan

Saravanan Sahadevan — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:35:35 +0000

Great post!!… I’m giving green print a try..

By: Corvet

Corvet — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:33:01 +0000

Great post! Its a wonderful tips and advice. You save in many terms; money, paper, ink, and even environment. That’s a big contribution James. Hope to hear from you again soon. Cheers.

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:20:14 +0000

Super tips Andy! – thanks for your views

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:30:06 +0000

When I need to print something from the Internet I do the following:

1. Look to see if they have a “Printer Friendly” version. Usually a button at the top or bottom of the page/article.
2. I add the item to Evernote V2. Once the item is in Evernote V2 I can edit out all the garbage. Leaves me with a clean note.
3. When all else fails do a Print Preview, usually under the File toolbar and see what the preview looks like. If it is full of junk then use method 1 or 2.

Andy

By: Sakib

Sakib — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:12:59 +0000

that’s awesome and i’m trying the eco fonts.

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:30:46 +0000

That’s a really great site bryan – thanks for contributing!

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:19:48 +0000

I use FinePrint. It works great:
http://www.fineprint.com/

By: James Yeang

James Yeang — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:36:57 +0000

Thanks Shreela for that useful comment. Sorry but my CSS skills are probably worse than yours … perhaps a helpful reader can help out?

By: Shreela

Shreela — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:15:35 +0000

Great article, thanks. I installed the Eco font in XP, then set it as my font in FF 3.03 to see what it looked like. On this page, the regular text is fine, I notice no difference, but the text in the form box is a little weak looking.

But on some other pages, their text is weak looking, while other sites aren’t. I guess it depends on how the set their font in CSS, and I think size matters too (hee hee).

Can you, or any of your readers, think of a way to use normal fonts with FF, but then print using the Eco font? I’m thinking something along the lines of changing the User.css file somewhere deep in the bowels of FF, but it’s been a few upgrades since I’ve done that, I don’t remember which file it is, and where it’s located (XP).

Also, I only know basic CSS, so that whatever font I put in the CSS sheet would be the print font. But I’m vaguely aware of CSS having the ability to print differently than what’s in the browser window, like leaving out nav menus. Perhaps there’s a way to use this “print-only” CSS to change the printing font??