Keeping it Simple with Solid Ink Printers
One ink customer told recently of their switch to solid ink printers for their workplace almost a year ago. She was the instigator for this switch, as she was the office manager and in charge of all the technology and supplies for the small architectural firm.
Her interest in solid ink info started when she had to replace all of the ink in the office’s five printers at once. One by one, she went around to each of the printers and replaced the two separate ink cartridges. When she was done, she noticed that she had filled an entire tall trashcan with the packaging remnants – cardboard boxes, plastic shells. She hadn’t even gotten rid of the old cartridges – they needed to be recycled, so she would have to find a mailer or two to send back all of the old cartridges, all in the name of being green.
The other thing that drove her to solid ink was a row of incidents in which all of the marketing materials she made up came out looking horrid. She printed the marketing packets again and again, and every time the packets were streaky and the colors were muted. For materials that important, she could not risk an inferior product. After retrying several times, she finally had to clean out all of the printers in the office. By the time she was done, her hands were covered in toxic inks and dust, and she had lost an hour of her life by cleaning out every printer.
The decision to switch to solid ink was easy after those problems. Switching to solid ink meant no more gunky hands after fixing yet another problematic inkjet cartridge. No more excess packaging. And hello colors! The solid stick inks provided every marketing packet with a colorful punch she couldn’t get with any inkjet on the market.