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Where can I find a printer that uses less ink than the average?

Printer uses too much ink?? Help?

  • Alright, so the deal is that I have an epson sylus c120 printer and it seems like I'm going through ink way too fast. I'm 13 so I do have a lot of things to print for school, but since I've gotten new cartridges, I've really only printed about 4 or 5 things. But, I'm pretty much COMPLETELY out of ink. The other thing is, it's not only the black ink, it's the colors too!! I NEVER HAVE PRINTED ANYTHING IN COLOR WITH THESE CARTRIDGES.. My dad gets frustrated about constantly buying cartridges, especially ones we don't use. The setting is on "black ink only", which really makes me wonder WHY it's still using up all the colors. We put in 2 black ink cartridges at a time; they're both about empty. The yellow & cyan have even less left than the black, and the magenta has a little more than the black. So as you can see, the printer is pretty much eating up ALL of the cartridges, even though I print in black & white. The printer won't function without ALL of the cartridges :/ So, is there any way we can use less ink? Any setting or something.....? He's considered just buying a new printer alltogether.. any suggestions what to do about this? ugggh. Thanks

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    buy a new one like a hp printer all in one they work real good because i have one the only thing you can do is fix it but its not work it.

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if youre going to buy a new one, get a good one. if they're too expensive, wait for black friday sales and get one, thats when we got ours a couple years ago.:) much cheaper for a good printer!:)

Your best choice is to buy a new printer as you can see this one is sucking all the ink. Try to look for a printer that is gonna yield at 1,000 pages or something. Printers are pretty cheap nowadays anyway I'm sure you can go to your nearest best buy and get one for like $40 to $60 dollars.

I had the same problem with my old Canon PIXMA printer. I tried to repair it, cleaned the heads etc but nothing would help. In the end it wouldn't print at all. I got so fed up with it that I threw it out and bought a color laser printer from Samsung. Best decision of my life, no more ink refilling.

Every printer has software that allows you to adjust the quality. Even the windows printer option will allow you to change the quality to draft. That uses about 25% of the standard setting when it comes to ink usage.

Check your dpi settings. If they're set high, the printer will pig out on ink.

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