The following ways can help you reduce ink consumption.

- Reducing the print resolution
- Using Ink Save Mode

The following way can help you reduce color ink consumption.　

- Printing the document only with Black ink

- Reducing the print resolution
Choosing the lower quality for printing reduces the print resolution. This can help you reduce ink consumption. However please note that the printed result will not be as sharp.

• For Windows Users:
  1. Open Printing Preferences. (Click here to see how to open Printing Preferences.)
     
  2. Click the Basic tab.
     
  3. Choose Fast in the Print Quality selection.
     
  4. Click Apply => OK.
     
     
• For Mac OS X Users:
  1. Open Print dialog. (Click here to see how to open Print dialog.)
     
  2. Choose Print Settings from the print box.
     
  3. Choose Fast in the Print Quality selection.

- Using Ink Save Mode
The machine prints the colors lighter and emphasizes the outlines of the images like an example shown below. The amount of ink that is saved varies depending on the type of documents that are printed.

• For Copying
  
  *If your Brother machine has a touchscreen, please follow the steps of "For Touchscreen models" below.
  
  
  1. Press the Copy button.
     
  2. Load your document.
     
  3. Enter the number of copies you want.
     
  4. Press up or down arrow key and choose Advanced Setting.
     
  5. Press OK.
     
  6. Press up or down arrow key and choose Ink Save Mode.
     
  7. Choose On.
     
  8. Press OK.
     
  9. Press Black(Mono) or Color(Colour) Start.
     
     
  <For Touchscreen models>
  
  
  1. Press the Copy button.
  2. Load your document.
  3. Enter the number of copies you want.
  4. Press left or right arrow key to display Advanced Setting.
  5. Press Advanced Setting.
  6. Press Ink Save Mode.
  7. Press Black(Mono) or Color(Colour) Start.
     
     
  
  
  
• For PC printing (For Windows users only)
  1. Open Printing Preferences. (Click here to see how to open Printing Preferences.)
     
  2. Click the Advanced tab and check the Ink Save Mode.
     
  3. Click Apply => OK.

- Printing the document only with Black ink
When you print a black and white document data, if you choose the Color mode and the media type except Plain Paper, the color ink is wasted unnecessarily. Because when your documents include color information even if documents appear in monochrome, the document will be printed in color, and in addition when your documents include gray-colored contents, the document may also be printed in color by color processing reason.

For more information please refer to the Related FAQs at the end of the page.

To choose Grayscale and Plain Paper, follow the steps below:

• For Windows Users:
  1. Open Printing Preferences. (Click here to see how to open Printing Preferences.)
     
  2. Click the Basic tab.
     
  3. In the Media Type section, verify that Plain Paper is selected.
     
  4. Click the Advanced tab.
     
  5. In the Color/Grayscale section, verify that Grayscale is selected.
     
  6. Click Apply => OK.
     
     
• For Mac OS X Users:
  1. Open Print dialog. (Click here to see how to open Print dialog.)
     
  2. Choose Print Settings from the print box.
     
  3. Choose Plain Paper in the Media Type.
     
  4. In the Color/Grayscale section, verify that Grayscale is selected.