The Top 5 Suggestions For Prolonging The Usefulness of Ink Laser Printer Cartridges and Cartridges for Laser Printers
1. Only Just print what is necessary.
Prior to laser printing any specific selection of a text, evaluate its worth and importance so that you waste zero resources laser printing stuff which might be of no of use. More to the point, merely laser print what is absolutely needed to conserve the amount of inkjet printer ink cartridges and recycled paper being used. The less color ink that is utilized for every laser print activity, the longer the laser printer cartridges go on.
What’s more, information which can be downloaded on disks, instead of printing, should be saved. Utilize CDs or peripheral hard drives to download your spreadsheets and files in lieu of printing them out. Reports and e-mails generally shouldn’t be printed unless you really have to have them. There should never be a reason to print out jokes or novelty stuff. Printing those items expends dollars in color ink, printers cartridges and recycled paper.
2. You ought to print words and not graphics.
Laser printing letters or reports for review later on might be valuable, but you ought to only laser print the essential text and any other items that are needed. Stay away from laser printing photos, images, graphs, or multicolored presentations if needing a paper carbon copy isn’t crucial.
3. Utilize the “Print Preview” function.
Print Preview is an extremely beneficial function that shows a preview of how the completed text should appear once laser printed. “Print Preview” should help you maneuver words, characters, and spacing and settle on what pages or selections need to be printed. Consider turning off your color ink laser printer cartridges, selecting only the pages you’ll need copies of, and the document which is definitely essential – particularly the very last sheet with the footer that you receive with each laser print job. This noticeably reduces the amount of ink used, plus the amount of paper utilized.
4. Print text just with the black ink printer cartridges (disable the color ink cartridge).
Laser print documents that are just white and black and no color ink with only the black ink laser printer cartridges. Each time pick white and black laser printing as an alternative of color ink laser printing if doable. It probably might depend on the class of printer you are using but there could be the capability to select grayscale printing by using only the black ink cartridge. Grayscale is a poorer quality, however once more, you can alter it for the finishing document. When you want to laser print black words with color ink laser printer cartridges, several colors are mixed and manipulated to generate black ink. That might drain your color ink cartridge a great deal more quickly than it would drain the black only ink cartridge. If you’re not printing high quality documents for a proposal or if you are printing text only, there is a good probability you should not want or have the other colors.
5. When viable, print in draft mode.
Employ the “draft print” resolution tool when you can. There are a range of options provided. You may discover numerous options under the tab “Paper/Quality” that will let you pick the “draft” option resolution printing. The paper won’t laser print at the higher quality, but that will not be of concern if you are just going to reference material that you won’t need later. All you have to do is turn on the better quality when you need a final version of a document.
If you can utilize these tips, you should soon experience generous savings in laser printer cartridges and the cost associated with them.
The Disaster Recovery Interview
Data backup and recovery is one of the most overlooked parts of a company’s IT structure. With all of the technology available today, the absence of even the most elementary backup solution is a mortal sin in regard to the business technology universe. There are affordable backup and data recovery systems in every price range, so even companies with limited budgets can afford an elementary system at the very least. Also many computer services firms now offer backup and data recovery systems as integral parts of their managed IT services.
Some things to consider when thinking about your backup and disaster recovery solution(s):
1. What happens if I delete a file?
2. Where is my email stored and is it backed up?
3. What if my computer crashes? Even if my data is saved how long will it take me to rebuild my computer to a functioning state?
4. Is all of my backup data located in the same physical location?
5. Will a catastrophe wipe out my backup solution i.e. a fire?
6. Does my business count on any one system for business critical functions? How long can my business operate without a functioning system? Does my current backup solution accomodate that expectation?
7. Does someone in our company know how to retrieve information off backups?
8. Are my backups tested so I know they work?
9. Are my backups monitored so I know if they are ever failing?
10. Is the backup data media (i.e. hard drives or tapes) transferred in a secure, controlled manor since it contains all data for my entire business?
This list covers about 1/4 of the questions that you should review when it comes to a practical backup and disaster recovery solution so if you haven’t asked yourself these questions, start today! If you are confused, contact a local computer services provider which should be able to assist your company.
Good and Bad Password Strategies for your Business
Project managers and engineers at technology management and computer services firms commonly wage a “battle of password policy” with the users and administration of the clients we serve. Information engineers must ensure the confidentiality and security of the technology infrastructure, which starts at the end user computer with a password. Most companies have a password policy, sometime dictated by a compliancy standard, other times an adopted standard with loose terms. However, a password requirement is only step number one.
No matter how strong a password policy you have, it won’t do any good if people just jot passwords down on paper and stick it to their monitors. Here are some aspects when it comes to secure passwords:
The Good:
1.Most people don’t fear passwords, they fear remembering passwords. Many users consider this embarrassing or a failure on their part if it happens. Never write a password down.
2.Good passwords have uppercase and lowercase letters. They also can contain numbers, spaces or even special characters such as &%$#. With this in mind, try taking a password you can remember and converting it a bit to make it a bit more complex. Example: (current password) matilda – (new password) M@tild@ or M@T1lda. This increases the security of the password exponentially.
3.Consider longer passwords. Use at least six to eight characters. M@tild@ would be good, but L0vEM@tild@ is much better!
The Bad:
1.Do not use plain English words by themselves (anything in a dictionary), such as ‘dog’’. Consider something stronger such as i.e. ‘p22sswo44rd’.
2.Do not use easily retrievable information by itself, such as your birthday, date of hire, kid’s birthday, phone number…etc.
3.Do not make the password too short i.e. ‘bolt’
4.Lastly do not use the same password for every system or login.
If you really need assistance in remembering a password and must write something down, then do the following.
1.Write a sentence on a post-it note. For example purposes we will use “My daughter is two years old.”
2.Now (mentally) take the second letter of each sentence: “yaswel”
3.Lastly, take your birth date, add it to the end: “yaswel22”
4.Use capitalize to strengthen further: “Yaswel22”
Using this example, all you have to remember is to use the second letter of each word and your birth date and not some obscure random password.
Finally, there are many choices for password management software nowadays which are much more reliable and secure than an excel spreadsheet or writing them all down on notepad paper.