January 22nd's Tip

Double-Sided Printing: When you're printing at home on an inkjet printer, even less sophisticated models allow for printing on both sides. That's because the driver on the PC does the job. It first prints the odd pages, asks you to place the printed sheets back in the drawer and then prints the even pages on the backside.

Probably, several people know this. But maybe they don't know that you can fix the setting to print on both sides, if you select your printer from the Control Panel (in Windows) and change it to print on both sides there. From then on, as a default, everything you print uses both sides of the paper unless you override the setting by clicking the "Properties" button in the print dialog when you print a specific document.

It helps me to save almost half of the paper at home.

Thanks to Luc at Clever & Easy for today's paper saving tip!

Author's note: For Mac users, the steps for double sided printing depend on what version of the OS you're on. If your printer supports auto double-sided printing, the option should be somewhere in the extended settings after you click print.

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