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Set up multiple printer drivers

Posted Dec 14, 2004 by David Risley  

As we all know, printers are quite affordable these days, but they absolutely kill you and beat you silly when it comes to the ink for that printer. A way to save money on ink is to print in black only. Blank ink is cheaper than colored. When you print something, you can always go into your printer driver settings and set it to gray-scale or black-only, but you can save time by simply setting up another instance of your printer drivers with the black-only setting permanently on. Simply install a separate instance of your printer drivers - one for black and one for color. Then, when you need to print something, you can either make your desired printer default and print, or you can simply choose which “printer” you wish to print with. Note that you can also do this for other settings as well. This will save you a little time, and a little money.

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