Print Greener With GreenPrint
I saw this sometime ago, but you had to pay for it even for home users. Well not anymore and EVERYONE should install this! It’s called GreenPrint and it is fantastic. You know how you print a webpage and it prints one page that has one or two lines or just a header with a URL? GreenPrint takes care of that. Ever want to just print the text of a document? GreenPrint allows you to remove the images (and conversely, the text) so you can do just that. How about a PDF but you don’t have Adobe Acrobat - well GreenPrint lets you create PDFs. I can assure you that I have no affiliation with GreenPrint, but as an IT Manger (my day job), I see tons of paper wasted each and every day. Did I mention that they have a counter to see how much money you are saving by not printing these extra pages?
GreenPrint World Edition is now free for home users. The one caveat is that the user interface has a skyscraper banner ad down the right side of your computer screen. If you upgrade to Home Premium Edition, you can eliminate those banner ads. It’s $35 and they plant a tree for you, too. For the enterprise, its $70 a pop. That gives you PDF abilities, too - which isn’t too bad. It appears that this is Windows-only right now. If you want to see a quick demo - go to their site and check it out (it could use a little spice, though).
On their site they have a few eco-facts:
- 1 ton of paper = 400 reams = 200,000 sheets
- 1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333 sheets
- 1 ream (500 sheets) uses 6% of a tree (and those add up quickly)
- Average employee prints 6 wasted pages per day, that’s 1,410 wasted pages per year!
- The average U.S. office worker prints 10,000 pages per year (a little over 1 tree per employee)
- Making one single sheet of copy paper can use over 13oz. of water– more than a typical soda can.
- Production of 1 ton of copy paper uses 11,134 kWh (same amount of energy used by an avg household in 10 months)
Source: GreenPrint
this low techie thanks you for the very useful tips; i did need that and i will be sure to send others to this site for the info.
and, uh! the trees , the trees, and the trucks, and the whole supply chain..gratitude, one page at a time.
Depending on where you live and the type of printer you have you can also refill your ink cartridges at Walgreens. It works a couple times and then most office supply stores will take your old cartridges and recycle them and you get a discount on the purchase of new ones.
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This is great!
I try to conserve printing - I always feel so bad!