QuickTips Index

Save Money and the Environment -- Buy Returnable Cartridges
Many printer manufacturers are offering lower-cost returnable ink and toner cartridges.

Unpacking Your New Printer -- Carefully
While we all like to think our new printers or scanners will work perfectly, sometimes they have to be returned. In that case, it's a good idea to know how to repack your device.

Getting Rid of Unwanted Software
Sometimes, printers comes with extras that you don't really need -- like promotional software packages that don't do much more than take up space on your hard drive. Feel free to uninstall them.

Fix It Up By Powering Down
Sometimes, a printer problem can be solved very simply -- by just powering down your printer and scanner and restarting your printer driver. However, it has to be done in the right order.

Save Paper: Ignore The Print Button
When you print a Web page, how many unnecessary pages do you print with it?

When In Doubt: Restart
Sometimes, the reason a new install of a printer driver doesn't work is because the old driver is still being felt. The effects of a printer driver sits in the memory of both your PC and your computer, and unless it is wiped from both, you have no way of knowing whether your newly installed driver is really working or not.

Is Your Printer Wasting Ink?
Have you noticed that you have to replace your color ink cartridges much more often than you'd think? Even if you use hardly any color ink? Well, that's not your fault -- it's the fault of the printer's construction.

Quick Tip: Delete Your Printer Drivers
When you replace your printer, it's very unlikely that your old printer driver will conflict with your new one. But why take the chance?

Quick Tip: Check Your Connections
Sometimes, when a printer or scanner misbehaves, it may simply be a shaky connection.