Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Going Green at the Office

Boy, seems like life has taken over for a while and I haven't been posting as often as I'd like!

One of the things I've been up to is figuring out what to do about the toner cartridge problem at work. I write a monthly newsletter for one of our family-run businesses, Michelsen Music. It's easy enough and cheaper to copy it off myself, but I go through a cartridge of ink every couple months.

Now Canon will take the things back for recycling, but it's a hassle to have to package them up and take them to the post office. Plus they cost about $60 a crack. Not cool!

I figured that finding a way to refill them would not only save the energy costs of melting the darn things down and turning them into new ones (or however they do it), but it could possibly save me money as well.

So I did a little online search. Not to brag, but boy, did I get it right!

There's a site called TonerKits.com that sells refill kits for virtually any copier ink cartridge out there. It's easy to use and it works!

I was so impressed I wrote up a glowing review for them and posted it on Associated Content. You can read the whole story here if you want all the lurid details. But for now, suffice it to say it works great, it only took me 10 minutes and I saved forty bucks. How cool is that?

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