why does my printer run out of cloloured ink so quickly? i hardly print anything with colour.?

Answer 1

Make your cartridge last 5 times longer!
Click on start button, click on printers and faxes.
Your default printer should have a check-mark next to it. Right click your printer, click properties.
Click printing preferences, find the box that says "print quality". Set this to fast draft......this will make your printer print much faster, and use way less ink.....
This should be more than sufficient for day to day printing.....If you want to use even less ink, click on the "basic" tab under your printer preferences, then "advanced features", and bring the ink volume down a notch and try to print a test page.......

Hope this helps, you should save tons of money with this setting!

Answer 2

I wonder the same thing, I am going to get myself a only black ink printer. I pay about 18.00 for colored ink and I can only print maybe 100 pages if that.