Frequently Asked Questions（FAQ)

• Saves ink and toner
  ecoPrint2 can reduce up to 75% of your ink usage and works on both color inkjet printers and laser printers
• Preserves high print quality
  Our technology ensures that your overall print quality is not sacrificed in the process.
• Speedy
  Even on the highest ink-saving settings, print speed is still nearly as fast as without.
• Highly compatible
  ecoPrint2 ink and toner saver can be used with any printer, even one that is only connected to your computer by network.
• Includes a Savings Calculator
  Want to see how much money ecoPrint2 saves you per month? Our built-in savings calculator can show you just how much of a difference you're making.
• Print Preview
  Preview print sessions in ecoPrint2 and add blank pages, delete unnecessary pages, rearrange page order or rotate pages
• Combine Documents
  Multiple documents can be used in one print job and be saved in a single document
• Multiple Pages per Sheet
  Print 2, 4, 6, 8 or 16 pages on a single sheet of paper
• Page Modification
  1. Rearrange page order
  2. Rotate page 90, 180 and degrees : a useful function when documents made by different applications are merged
  3. Manual margin setting: page margin can be set side by side and the content can be automatically enlarged according to the margin
  4. Delete pages and add blank pages
  5. Page layout : 2-up, 4-up, 6-up, 8-up and 16-up
• Add watermarks, commenting and more
  Use on-board tools and to add headers, comments, page numbring and watermarks to your document before printing
• Paper scaling Documents can be automatically scaled to fit any standard paper size you need. Custom sizes can also be added.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional or Windows Vista (32 bit)
RAM: 256 MB minimum
Hard Drive Space: Minimum of 15 MB for installation

Yes. ecoPrint2 Pro: Ink and Paper Saver is now compatible with Windows 7, both 32 and 64-bit.

Please download the latest ecoPrint2 Ink and Toner Saver installer here.

Yes. ecoPrint2 Pro: Ink and Paper Saver is now compatible with Vista 64-bit operating system as of January 18th, 2010.

Please download the latest ecoPrint2 Pro: Ink and Paper Saver installer here.

Download the file 'ecoPrint2Pro.exe' from the Download page. Double-click on the installation file, 'ecoPrint2Pro.exe', to start the installation. Follow the onscreen instructions and our installation guide will do the work for you.

ecoPrint2 Pro acts the same way as an extra printer driver. In any application with a printing function, enter the Print menu like you normally would. However, instead of choosing your regular printer from the drop-down menu, pick 'ecoprint2'. This will start up the Preview window and allow you to access the ink and paper saving settings.

We offer ecoPrint2 Pro for sale on our Buy page via the element5 shopping cart system. You can also buy ecoPrint products from some online stores.

Buying from ecoprintsaver.com

Go to our Buy page and click the corresponding 'buy now' button to enter our shopping cart. We will send you your registration key via email.

Buying from resellers

After purchasing an ecoPrint product from a reseller, you should receive a 'Sales Code'. Go to our registration page and enter the Sales Code into the corresponding box. After you fill out your form, we will send the registration key to the email you provide.

• Start ecoPrint2 by sending a document to print
• For example: from Microsoft Word
• Select 'Print' or use [Ctrl] + [p]
• Select 'ecoPrint2' as the printer
• click 'Print'
• The ecoPrint2 preview window, entitled 'Economy printing - ecoPrint2 Pro Ink & Paper Saver' will open

• Copy and paste your license key that you received after registering at: http://www.ecoprintsaver.com/register into the 'Registration Key' field, then click 'OK'
• If you purchased directly from http://www.ecoprintsaver.com/buy , then you don't need to register. Copy and paste the key you received after purchase directly into the 'Registration Key' filed, then click 'OK'

• If when you send a document to print and the 'Economy Printing' window opens, but not the Registration Window, that means you have already successfully activated the full-version of ecoPrint2 Pro: Ink and Paper Saver


• To check that your copy of ecoPrint2 Pro has been activated, after the 'Economy Printing' window opens, click on 'Help'.
  • If the 'Register ecoPrint2 Pro...' is greyed out and not clickable, then you have successfully activated the full version.
  • 
  • Otherwise, click on 'Register ecoPrint2 Pro...' and the registration window will appear.
    Copy and paste your license key into the 'Registration Key' field and click 'OK'

In the 'File' menu in the Menu options, select 'Print'. This will lead to a regular print window, like in your other applications. Just select your regular printer this time (NOT ecoprint2) and print your file from there.

After you send a document to print with "ecoPrint2" as the printer and the "Economy Printing" window opens, a smaller "Options Settings" window near the top right will also open.

• 
• You can choose a pre-set watermark from the drop down menu.
• 
• Or choose to customize one by clicking on the "..." button next to the watermark dropdown menu.
• When you choose to customize your own watermark, the "Watermark Settings" window appears.
• 
• You can choose to edit a pre-set watermark by selecting the Watermark name from the drop down menu then begin editing.
• Or to create a new watermark, click "New".
• Give your watermark a name and click "OK".
• 
• You can now begin editing the text, angle, transparency, layer, font and position of your newly created watermark.
• 
• You can begin by choosing your font by clicking on "Font". You can choose the font, style, size, effect and colour of the font. When you are finished, click "OK".
• 
• The text box next to the "Watermark" is the text that will appear as your watermark. The default is the name you chose for your customized watermark. You can change it to any text you wish.
• 
• Once you click "OK" you will see a preview of your print job with your customized watermark on the document.
• 

When you first enter the Ink/Toner Saving Options panel, make sure that the checkbox labelled 'Enable Ink/Toner Saving' is checked. This will unlock the slider bar. By sliding it to the left or right, you can increase and decrease the percentage of ink saved during printing – the percentage is shown in the box labelled 'Ink/Toner saving ratio'. If you would prefer to adjust the ink ratio using numbers, you can also type the percentage you want into this box. When you are satisfied with your ratio choice, click the menu labelled 'Type of Printer' and choose one according to what kind of printer you are planning to use ecoPrint2 with (4 colour inkjet, laser, etc).

Once you are finished adjusting these parameters, click the 'Apply' button at the bottom of the panel. This will enable the settings you have chosen so you that can use them immediately.

Saving ink and paper means you also save money. With ecoPrint2 Pro Ink and Paper, you can track approximately how much you are saving.

1. In the 'Set Price' column, enter the cost of your ink/toner cartridge. (e.g. $34.99)
2. Estimate how much of the ink cartridge you will use in a month and enter this in the 'Cartridge Used/Month' box in the 'Set Price' column. (For example, if you use one ink cartridge every 2 months, you would enter .5 in this box.)
3. Click [OK] to save your settings.

1. In the 'Black' column, enter the cost of your black ink cartridge only. (e.g. $15.97)
2. Estimate how much of the ink cartridge you will use in a month and enter this in the 'Cartridge Used/Month' box in the 'Black' column. (For example, if you use one ink cartridge every 4 months, you would enter .25 in this box.)
3. Enter the cost of your color ink cartridge in the 'Color' column.
4. Add the estimated usage amount in the 'Cartridge Used/Month' box in the 'Color' column.
5. Click [OK] to save your settings.

• Yearly ink/toner savings – The "Ink/Toner Cost/Year" box.
• Monthly dollar amounts saved – The "Saved cost/Month" box.
• Yearly dollar amounts saved – The "Save cost/Year" box.

To open Paper Statistics, either click on the little green leaf icon [] in the short cut menu or click on 'Help' and select 'Paper Statistics...'

Paper Statistics is another calculator which gives you the approximate cost of paper saved and and CO₂ reduced by using the software. You can either check the environmental effects of your previous usage of the software or estimate the amount of money you have saved.

To calculate the amount of paper saved, CO₂ reduced and trees saved during the past months, just enter the bracket of months you would like to include in your calculations (May to August, for example). The default environmental stats are for A4 size sheets of paper, but if you have specific statistics involving the CO2 reduction / sheet (defaults to 5.3360g) or the Tree saved / sheet (defaults to 0.000120), you can enter your own stats. This will tell you how many pages of document have been printed, how much paper you have saved, how many grams of CO2 you have reduced and how many trees you have saved by using ecoPrint2 Pro Ink and Paper Saver. Keep watching the rectangular box; after extended use, something may grow there!

To predict how much money you have saved, enter the sum you have used on printing into 'Total Printing Cost', ink and paper cost included. Enter the number of sheets you have used into 'Total sheets used' and the cost of each sheet into 'Paper cost / sheet'. Lastly, enter the ink/toner saving ratio you have been using into 'Average Ink/Toner saving ratio'. This will give you the total printing cost saved and the percentage of cost saved.

The multiple page settings are under the 'View' menu on the menu bar. There are also shortcuts on the toolbar for quick access. You can print 2, 4, 6, 8 or 16 pages on one sheet of paper.

There are two different methods of adjusting margins. One method is through the 'Page Margins' menu in the Option Settings window, which applies a general margin to all the pages automatically. This is the fastest method, though this only allows you to increase the size of the margins beyond their current size.

The second, more in-depth method is the 'Page Setup' window found under the 'File' menu on the menu bar. The margin settings on this window allow you to make negative margins and give you the choice of applying the settings to one or all of the pages.

ecoPrint2 Pro lets you add pages from multiple documents into the same print project. This is particularly useful if you want to print pages from different documents on a single page. Just open the document you want to add to the print project and print it to 'ecoPrint2', as if you were starting a new print project – this will add your document to the current print project.

You can change the order of the pages in your document from the Preview window. This also applies to multiple pages printed on a single page of the print project.

First of all, select the page (or in this case, mini-page) that you want to move by clicking on it. This should create a blue outline around the page. The page order options are in the 'Edit' menu on the menu bar. Choose where you want to move your selected page: to the very first page, to the previous page, to the next page, or to the very last page.

If you have a specific placement in mind for the page you want to move, use the "Move Selected Page to ..." option and pick which page you want to move to from the drop-down menu.

As is often the case with print projects involving multiple file types, sometimes you may need to rotate the content of a single page.

The Rotation options can be found under the 'Edit' menu or the right-click menu. ecoPrint2 Pro allows you to rotate 90 degrees in either direction, as well as 180 degrees to turn the document 'upside down'.

The Delete Page and Insert Blank Page options can be found under the 'Edit' menu or the right-click menu. The 'Delete Page' option is fairly straightforward, but you can choose to insert a blank page before or after the selected page.

If you wish to print on alternate paper sizes, you will need to specify this in the Print Setup. The same goes for orientating the paper in a Portrait or Landscape fashion. The Print Setup behaves pretty much identically to the ones in other printing-enabled programs.

For example, to adjust the paper size to legal, go to 'Print Setup' in the File menu and adjust the paper size to 'Legal'.

Custom Paper Sizes are useful if the paper size you wish to print to cannot be found in paper size selection list.

To create your own custom paper size:

• Select 'Start' --> 'All Programs' --> 'ecoPrint2 Pro Ink and Paper Saver' --> 'Add Custom Paper Sizes'
• 
• The 'Add Custom Paper Sizes' window will appear
• 
• Adjust the Paper width, height and margins as desired
• Change the default name from 'newsize' to any name you like and click on 'Add size'

To use your custom paper size:

• Send your document to print from ecoPrint Preview window by either clicking on the print icon or selecting 'File' --> 'Print'
• This will open the print dialogue window
• Select the printer you wish to print to
• 
• Select your custom paper size then click 'OK'

After you are finished creating a print project, ecoPrint2 Pro also allows you to save it as an image file for later use. Projects can be saved in BMP, TIF, DCX, EMF, GIF, JPG, MNG, PCD, PCX, PIC, PSD, PNG, or TGA format.

Before printing from the preview window, you can choose to edit the margins.

To edit your margins for the current document:

• Click on a page of your current document
• Select 'File' --> 'Page Setup'
• 
• The Page Setup window will appear
• 
• Adjust the left, right, top and bottom margins as desired (units are in mm)
• Select 'Set margins to all pages' if you wish to have the changes apply to all pages of your current document. (The default choice only applies to the current page)
• Click 'OK' when you are finished

If you wish to keep your margin settings permanently, please use the 'Add Custom Paper Sizes' function.

The two Laser Quality saving options are two standard laser printer resolutions.
This option is found in the 'Ink/Toner Saving Options' window

If your printer is a laser printer, you will need to select either option A or B.
Typically, option A is compatible with most laser printers, but if you find that the quality of print is not high enough, then choose option B.

To set 'ecoPrint2' as the default printer after installation, you must do so through your Windows operating system.

• Select 'Start' --> 'Control Panel' --> 'Printers'
• Right-click on the printer 'ecoPrint2'
• 
• Then click on 'Set as Default Printer'

If you have questions that are not covered on this page or in the help file provided with the program, contact us using this form and we'll address your problem as soon as possible.