How to Reduce Screen Printing Ink

Printer ink can be very expensive and reducing the ink used when printing will save money and the inconvenience of running out of ink. When printing documents, you can lower the amount of ink you use by changing fonts and other manipulations but when printing screen captures, reducing the ink used to print screens can be done with a little more creativity.

Instructions

1. Copy the screen you want to print. Do that by clicking the print screen button on the keyboard. Open an application like Word or Paint and paste in the screen capture.

2. Re-size to a smaller image and lower quality. Using a program like Microsoft Paint, choose "image" and then "attributes" and make the image lower quality. You can also drag the corner of the image to make it smaller. The lower the quality and size, the less ink it will use.

3. Cut out parts of the image you don't need. Use an image editor like Paint again crop out the image so that you have only what you need.

4. Print in lower resolution. After you hit print, go into preferences and choose a lower resolution.

5. Print the image in black and white rather than color. Under printing preferences in the printer settings, choose grayscale if it is a color printer.

6. Set the printer to fast or draft mode. Under "Basic" preferences in the Printing box there is a setting to change the quality to draft or fast.