Print affordably with HP
By bruce • Sep 13th, 2010 • Category: HP Printer Tech TipsThere are two ways to print—you can print in an affordable manner or an unaffordable manner—and that’s about it. There is actually a way to print smarter with HP without having to give up your number of prints or their quality.
First, make sure you buy an HP printer that offers what you need and is dependable. You don’t want to find yourself buying a new unit from HP a year down the road, so remember to look into printers before you buy them. Also, know you want so you can get just that.
Another way to save money if printing color documents or images is to buy a printer that uses individual tanks of ink for each color instead of buying a printer that only uses two cartridges—generally black or tricolor cartridges. The HP tricolor tanks usually contain cyan, magenta and yellow printer ink. In these 2 tank ink systems, generally when one of the colors runs out, the entire cartridge needs to be replaced. Meaning, if you run out of cyan but are full of yellow and magenta, you are still going to need to replace the entire cartridge. If you have a printer that uses 4 tanks or more, though, this is never an issue. When one color runs out, only that color needs replaced.
Two other options are buying your ink in bulk or buying high capacity versions of ink from HP. Though both of these suggestions will cost much more upfront, they will save users a lot of money in the long run.
The easiest way to save money and print affordably is to buy remanufactured HP ink tanks from third party vendors, instead of buying OEM ink straight from the manufacturer. These tanks, though they only cost a fraction of the price, still offer high quality comparable of the HP inks.
Printing using HP units can be expensive or inexpensive, but the choice for high or low cost printing starts in one place—the buyer’s hands.
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