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 Preference. 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. Choose Print Settings from the print box.
     
     
  2. 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
  
  
  1. Load your document.
     
     
  2. Press  (Copy).
     
     
  3. Enter the number of copies you want.
     
     
  4. Press Options.
     
     
  5. Press the Up or Down arrow key to display Advanced Settings.
     
     
  6. Press Advanced Settings.
     
     
  7. Press Ink Save Mode.
     
     
  8. Read and confirm the displayed list of settings you have chosen, and then press OK.
     
     
  9. If you do not want to change any additional settings, press Black (Mono) Start or Color (Colour) Start.
  
  

  • Book Copy, Thin Paper Copy, Page Layout, Watermark Copy and Remove Background Color are not available with Ink Save Mode.
    
    
  • Ink Save Mode may make your printouts look different from your original document.

  
  
  
• For PC printing (For Windows users only)
  
  
  1. Open Printing Preference. 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 Preference. 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 chosen.
     
     
  4. Click the Advanced tab.
     
     
  5. In the Color/Grayscale section, verify that Grayscale is chosen.
     
     
  6. Click Apply => OK.
     
     
• For Mac OS X Users:
  
  
  1. Choose Print Settings from the print box.
     
     
  2. Choose Plain Paper in the Media Type.
     
     
  3. In the Color/Grayscale section, verify that Grayscale is chosen.