Since it’s a relatively slow day today I’ve got a motley assortment of random blog topics to talk about. The first
is Greenprint and the rest will follow later.
For those of us who work in an office we all know that wasted paper is a major issue in terms of cost, wastage and just generally feeling bad for wasting that paper. You generally feel like you’re destroying the earth page by page. If you’re like me then you know that this is an illogical thought but again, if you’re like me then you’re crazy and illogical so no logic makes sense anyway! Phew, that was quite a sentence.
To solve this moral quandary of paper wastage a new “patent-pending” product has been released. The product is called Greenprint and basically what it does is cleverly analyses what your printing out and if it is an almost blank page it’ll alert you and give you the option not to print that page. Greenprint uses this example:
The software solves a problem nearly everyone can relate to: The ubiquitous wasted page. This is the page with just a URL, banner ad, legal disclaimer, etc. These wasted pages occur many times a day littering homes and offices around the world and wasting money, trees, and time.
Another cool feature is the ability to create PDF documents instead of printing them out thus saving even more paper and in the long run trees. The site quotes a figure saying that if every computer used the software then 36 million trees could be saved. Whether this is a wildly outrageous figure or not, every little bit counts and only you can start to make that difference. If you consider how much it costs to produce paper as well as the costs of ink cartridges.
I’d recommend the software to all big offices as the amount of paper wastage is atrocious but this is a perfect compliment to any computer attached to a printer.
Go download the software and save a tree; it eliminates a lot of guilt.
The site with all download links can be found here
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