Comments on: Green Tip: Printing Smarter

By: Green PC

Green PC — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:56:32 +0000

Really these are the good tips. Please continue with these kind of information.

regards

By: abc

abc — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:26:56 +0000

I select only the text I want to print. I use greenprinter for some pages. Sometimes i don’t print, but clip to evernote or google notebook.

But I will try and do duplexing and/or print to PDF.

By: theo geer

theo geer — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:57:22 +0000

I use a few tactics:

1) As Jaan says, print multiple pages to a sheet. I regularly print text so I have my printer to always print 2/sheet. If your printer supports duplexing, Duplex EVERYTHING.

2) Most printers have lots of advanced settings. Explore your advanced settings and modify them so your defaults are as friendly as possible. Set to ‘draft’ printing, b&w only, no pictures, low-ink volume. Set things like tone to “coolest” and “dimest.” — This saves a great deal on ink/toner.

3) There are lots of things that you really need a hard-copy for. It’s hard to learn lines or rehearse off a monitor. When you have multi-use things, keep them in your filing cabinet and never print them a second time.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:06:46 +0000

Make sure your website has a good print style which removes all the excess crap (sidebars, ads, etc…).

Kevin

By: Roelant

Roelant — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:03:38 +0000

Not only print to PDF, fax to PDF! Receiving faxes digitally avoids wasting papers and as on a sidenote, it’s easier forwarding them to colleagues, archiving them and receiving them when your not at the office as well.

Hire a service to do so or have a PC or Mac (with a modem) doing it for you. We use to have an old Powermac G5 doing this for us, it enables you saving the faxes to a (shared) folder or mailing them to trough e-mail (both as PDF), but I’m shure there’s solutions for Windows and Linux as well.

By: Jaan

Jaan — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:01:48 +0000

I warmly recommend printing more pages per sheet. Four-to-one is a great way to go. Saves paper, provides better overview, cuts on bulk when traveling etc. Take a peek at my post for more on this.