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Thanks for sharing this important information with us on green printing…
the tips and advices to curb the environmental impacts associated with printing has been beneficial for all of us..
I was not aware with all these….it was most useful indeed!!!!
Thank you – some great advice here. Some other tips are:
– print internal documents n-up (e.g. 2 pages to a sheet)
– always use “print preview” feature and proofread text before printing, to avoid having to reprint because of layout or typing errors (this is especially important for spreadsheets where a single sheet can become 4 pages if the layout is incorrect!)
– if when you preview a document a small portion runs onto another page, consider changing the font size or margins so it fits on fewer pages.
– avoid the need to use pre-printed stationery that may have to be disposed of if any small detail changes by setting up templates in your applications so that letterhead and other standard document types can be printed at the same time as the body copy
Pull-printing is a great solution for avoiding wasted prints but also has some additional benefits – it helps to reduce resistance from moving to many desktop printers to a few shared ones on the basis of confidentiality, as there’s no risk your documents will be left on the printer for everybody to see. And because you tend to collect all your print jobs at once rather than sending them to print ad hoc, the printer only has to wake up and warm up once to print the batch, which uses less energy than multiple wake-ups.
Great tips, I have been exclusively purchasing recycled paper for my office for a while now. I also always print 2-sided where I can as its saves on overall paper consumption.
Some printers admits an ‘eco mode’ witch reduces the quality of prints but saves tonner. Surelly that is enough for drafs where you do not need professional quality. Probably you can turn this on by default (as well as the double-side printing), and turn it off manually when really need.