Want to Save Paper, Ink & Money at Home or the Office?
An Easy Way To Stop Wasting Money At Home…..
I have always been the person nagging others at home or in the office to check what they print before they print it. The number of times they churn off 3 or 4 pages of just a tiny line or a few words rather than having taken the time to check their ‘print preview’ before taking action.
Even an information sheet a friend got from her local hospital one time had just 2 lines of information on the second sheet! It was headed and footered (if that’s a word) with all the important pre-printed Hospital details as well! What a complete waste of money from our health services! Why on earth someone couldn’t have checked this before printing off a batch I don’t know.
They many only have needed to delete a few non-important words from the introduction or joined one short papragraph onto the end of a neighboring short paragraph and the paper, money and energy saved would no doubt be amazing! What if every hospital didn’t do this for all their every-day information sheets? Its no wonder there is always a waiting list at the hospitals here – they are wasting goodness knows how much on headed paper and the staples holding empty sheets of paper together!!!
Anyway, no matter how hard I tried when printing spreadsheets and documents, I still had great trouble with the Internet. How many times the information went off the sheet at the non-existent right margin! The number of sheets of paper printing off just the website address and page 12 of 13 on them was unstoppable! I needed help.
Sure enough, after some searching, I found a free piece of software that could help me out here! This fantastic ‘i can’t believe someone hasn’t thought of it sooner’ software is sure to amaze you and also save you a fortune – and the planet!!!
Does It Really Make A Difference?
When I first visited the site earlier this year, I noticed that they had a count-up facility, that monitored how their software was saving printed pages of waste and how much that was in terms of carbon emissions. It said then that they had saved around 4.5 million pieces of paper (thats just under 500 trees by their calculations) and just over 3 million lbs of C02 saved in energy and inks printing the useless things!
Since then (about 8 weeks), their calculators are showing that they have saved another 100 trees, and stopped a further 500,000 lbs of C02 being spat out from factories to print our blank pages!
Obviously this calculation is only based on the people that have downloaded the software, but maybe something like this should become standard for businesses, like hospitals, so that waste is severely reduced. The example of the information above is frightening that with just a few minutes of better preparation the costs of printing could be halved – and staples would stay in their boxes!
Of course, you can save printed waste without this software by using ‘page preview’ every-time and cutting and pasting information from websites onto your preferred written software (reducing the font size and editing the information down to save ink and pages), but this is free and easy to use.
What Does It Do?
It helps you to highlight and remove unwanted pages that are going to print from the pages you have selected allowing you control over what it prints and what it deletes. It also allows you to create PDF’s with one click to avoid the mess that usually prints from a web-page.
Their GreenPrint World Edition always self-deletes the wasted pages at the end of most article itself. You know – the ones with just the URL, banner ads and legal disclaimer on them that you no doubt have to then shred or recycle having served no purpose at all – except increases your overheads!
For fun (or serious if it’s your own business), it also allows you to keep a track of what you have printed since installing the software and how much paper you have saved!
It’s not like you will be missing anything important – just saving time, money and resources.
Green Print software is compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista (32 bit only). And it’s free to anyone.
They are aiming to save over 100 million trees and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 300 million tonnes (and while I have been writing this they have saved another tree!!!). They also offer great deals on recycled office supplies!