5 Top Paper Saving Tips for Your Laser Printer
Save resources and help preserve the environment with these useful tips for saving paper with your laser printer:
Setting your laser printer driver to print two pages to a page can help you save tremendous amounts of paper.
Tip 1: Optimise Driver Settings - For non quality critical documents like reference internet pages or emails, set your laser printer to print in draft mode or at a lower DPI setting, and multiple pages on a sheet to maximize paper and toner usage. 2 pages to a sheet is reasonable for most documents, 4 to a sheet is good for presentation slides. You can save even more paper by printing on both sides of the paper by setting your word processor to print on odd pages first then even ones next.
Tip 2: Recycle - Conveniently locate two reuse/recycle paper trays where your Epson EPL-6200L laser printer is - one for discarded non-confidential single-sided prints for reuse for draft prints, and the other for unwanted double sided prints to be sent to paper recyclers.
Tip 3: Power Down - Automatically set your laser printer to power down after hours and on weekends so as to save electricity.
Setting your page margins to a minimum and reducing your font size and line spacing helps save paper by squeezing as much text onto a page as possible.
Tip 4: Paper Configuration - In your laser printer setup - make sure your default paper size is set correctly - when first your install your printer, its printing properties may be set to the shorter but wider U.S. default 8 x 11-inch "letter" size instead of the common A4 size that is used in this region. The longer A4 paper setting allows for more lines to be printed. You can also decrease the default print margins, font size and line spacing so as to accommodate more text on a page. You need to set this by right clicking on your printer's icon in the ‘Printers & Faxes' section of the Control Panel, otherwise the settings will not be remembered by your computer.
Tip 5: Preview Prints - As far as possible, preview your prints before hitting the print button. You can then optimize the pages being sent for print by adjusting page margins to accommodate more text and/or prevent paper wastage from printing pages with little text coverage. For document prints, use Microsoft Word's "shrink to fit" option that attempts to squeeze your text onto a single page.
Previewing your pages before printing allows you to adjust margins to accommodate more text, anticipate errors and optimize page / paper use.
