If you have ever purchased color cartridges for your printer you know they can get very expensive. A new color cartridge is key to sharp, clear pictures and graphics. Black and white just doesn't cut it for photos.

Do price comparisons to find the best deal on cartridges for your computer. Black and color ink cartridges can be found packaged together, which can many times be cheaper than buying them separately.

Color is just the thing for your photos but it also can jazz up a plain document, report, or presentation paperwork. You can find color ink cartridges all over the Internet as well as your local office supply store. Look for sales, coupons, and specials that will help you cut the cost of these cartridges. Consider the following tips to help you conserve your color ink cartridge and make it last a lot longer.

How can you make your color ink cartridge last longer?

• Print black and white documents with a black ink cartridge. If you use the color cartridge it will mix colors to create black, thereby depleting your color palette needlessly.
• Print rough drafts in draft mode, it used less ink and you can switch back for the final version. Do this for your color documents too until you are ready for the before last test print. You will want to do one test print in color to make sure the colors you have chosen work well with your document.
• If you don't need a whole document just print a portion. This saves on your color cartridge use tons! If you print from the Internet who needs all the color headers?
• If you don't need an image don't print it. This not only saves your color cartridges put saves on printing time as well.

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