GreenPrint ~ saving paper and trees

One thing that has always bothered me around my office is paper waste. My preference would be to never have to print anything, but unfortunately some of the printing cannot be avoided. So when things do have to be printed, I really get annoyed when one of the documents that I’m printing has a cover sheet or last page that is nothing but a copyright notice or a header/footer. Printing these blank pages is a huge waste of paper…along with creating a problem down the entire environmental line. Tree waste, ink waste, carbon emissions from the manufacturing of the paper, landfill waste…the list goes on and on.

Thanks to a program called GreenPrint this problem is a thing of the past.  With GreenPrint, when you go to print a document you get a quick preview of what each page will look like when printed. There are several settings within the program that will make a page not print if it falls within a set of parameters such as less than five lines of text, or only a header/footer. You can also click on a page to tell it not to print. The pages that will not be printing turns red on the preview screen. Once the document is set as you want it and all the wasted space pages have been set to not print, you can click the print button and only the full pages will print. In the system tray there is an icon for GreenPrint that when clicked on will give you stats on the amount of paper and money you’ve saved.

I personally think this type of paper saving software should be automatically installed in every software program or operating system. Until that time though I would highly recommend that everyone check out GreenPrint and start saving paper today.

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