Stop the Madness - Spend 50% Less on Toner and Ink

With several computers in the house, our printer gets quite a workout. This also means several trips throughout the year to the local office supply store to replenish the consumables. I would esimate my annual spending on ink to be close to $500 per year if not more.

The same problem exists for the corporate workplace as well. In fact, industry experts estimate that the annual toner or ink cost per employee ranges between $300-$1,100 depending upon the types of documents created; furthermore, this amount is expected to increase at an annual rate of 20% to 40%.

For my home, up until now the only way to reduce my costs was to print less, buy non-OEM cartridges or perhaps set the printer on "economode" which sacrifices quality.

At the enterprise level, corporations have done one or more of the following:

1) Negotiated Favorable Supplier Contracts - to reduce overall costs of toner and ink consumables
2) Outsourced The Printer Fleet - based on volume and fixed costs
3) Used Refurbished and non-OEM cartridges

While these are viable options, none address the key issue affecting the cost of consumables as well as the environment - specifically, the need to consume less ink and toner without degrading print quality.

Printer manufacturers learned quite some time ago that the "razor blade" model would result in the best margins and long-term profitability for their companies. Sell the printers at the lowest cost possible, but make up for it with the ongoing consumables that individuals and companies have to buy in order to print. I have nothing against this whatsoever - it's capitalism at its best.

Capitalism also breeds creativity and new inventions, and when new technology arrives on the scene to push down the costs within an industry, the whole world should know about it.

The issue is that computer screen pixels are square, but printer pixels are round. The conversion from squares to circles when printing results in excessive overuse of toner and ink and millions of dollars of unnecessary costs for individuals and organizations around the world.

There is now software that addresses this mismatch and has the ability to reduce toner and ink consumption by millions of dollars annually.

PretonSaver(tm) is new and innovative software that addresses the escalating costs of toner and ink consumption by using Pixel Optimizer(tm) technology. Pixel optimization reduces this consumption by up to 50% without degrading print quality.

Please see the "links" section below to view a short, 2-minute video about how PretonSaver works.

The software is easily installed on the desktop or laptop and provides real-time statistics on just how much toner and ink you are saving.

Consider the Following:

* One and a half billion ink cartridges and 350 million laser cartridges are dumped every year, a figure that increases by 12% every year.

* It takes nearly a gallon of fossil oil to produce one laser cartridge and 2.5 ounces of oil to manufacture one ink cartridge, not counting the energy required in the production process.

* Each toner cartridge becomes 3.5 pounds of solid waste.The total weight of these cartridges is equivalent to the weight of 112,463 Volkswagen Beetles per year.

* The typical cartridge is composed of 40% plastic, 40% metal and smaller percentages of rubber, paper, foam and toner. Dumped in the landfill, it can take up to 450 years to decompose.

Reducing toner and ink consumption by 50% means reducing the number of cartridges made and dumped by 50%. PretonSaver saves you money and protects our planet.