Printer ink costs are too damn high!

Cablevision employees are complaining that Altice, their penny-pinching new owners, are making their office life miserable by economizing in odd places — like cutting back on the number of printers in the office to save on ink cartridge costs, several sources tell The Post.

In the six months since Altice NV acquired the Bethpage, NY, company, management — to help meet a mandate to reduce costs — has cut back on how often the office is cleaned and, at a separate property, reached out to get a better deal on an ice maker, sources said.

The cost-cutting is part of an Altice effort to meet aggressive margin forecasts and synergy savings ahead of a likely public offering float, several sources tell The Post.

But it is also killing staff morale, the sources noted. Many staffers had to take pay cuts to retain their jobs after the Dolan family sold the company.

The demoralized staff, the sources said, are hoping the IPO happens soon and that employees can get a piece of the action.

On Wednesday, Reuters reported that JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are in line to execute the float that could value the company at $25 billion to $30 billion.

Altice boss Dexter Goei ordered departments to make do with a single printer because ink was too costly, one source noted.

A companywide program was instituted a few months ago, said a source, which funnels old and discarded printers to charities.

Altice’s cost-cutting moves have already resulted in the shuttering of a call center in Connecticut.

That Altice management is frugal isn’t a shock. Founder Patrick Drahi made waves at a 2015 Goldman Sachs investor conference by saying he would get rid of overpaid management — noting there were more than 300 Cablevision staff earning more than $300,000 per year.

“I don’t like to pay salaries,” Drahi said at the time. “I pay as little as I can.”

At the same conference, Drahi and Chief Executive Goei said they would look to wring $900 million of cost synergies out of Cablevision and its other US asset, Suddenlink Communications.

Altice, which owns French communications giant SFR, gained a foothold in the US by inking a $9 billion deal for St. Louis-based Suddenlink. It later bought Cablevision for $17.7 billion.

Drahi has said he believes 50 percent margins are possible in the business by pushing customers toward online ordering and reducing the company’s utility bill, among other changes.

A successful IPO of its US assets could raise enough cash to make a run at other cable assets, sources said.

An Altice spokesperson told The Post the company continues to “focus on improving the operational and financial performance of the company.” It believes it has “the right approach,” the spokesperson said.

But a separate part of that approach has some employees scratching their heads.

Altice execs made a big deal selling the Dolans’ corporate jet — only to step into the same type of jet, sources said.