| Printing smart can save money on paper, ink, | | | | possible. Deliver your materials to the printer |
| toner and maintenance costs. Some ways to print | | | | electronically via FTP sites or email. |
| smart are explained below. As far as possible | | | | You can instruct recipients that the printed paper |
| conserve paper. Before printing think twice is it | | | | can be recycled or teach them how to recycle it |
| necessary to print that document. If you think | | | | when they are done with it. In many venues |
| that the particular document will be outdated | | | | there are recycling containers throughout the |
| within a few days and you will not read it, then | | | | meeting facility. This is a very visible |
| there are other ways to show the document | | | | demonstration of your greening efforts. |
| without printing. You can make a power point | | | | While designing your printed materials, use |
| presentation of the document or share the | | | | eco-friendly design elements. While printing any |
| location as to where the file is or send a copy of | | | | document use standard paper sizes. Ink bleeding |
| the document at the end of the meeting through | | | | can lead to paper wastage as larger sheet sizes |
| email. There is another way to save paper; you | | | | are needed to produce the bleed effect. Another |
| can print multiple pages into a single sheet. You | | | | option is to make these pieces smaller in the first |
| can make a rule in the office that documents | | | | place. Minimize ink usage can save press time, |
| should be printed on both the front and back of | | | | paper and money. If you work with designers and |
| paper. | | | | printers you can get environmental friendly design. |
| Try to print on recycled paper containing a | | | | You should optimize your print layout. Always use |
| minimum of 30% post-consumer waste. Always | | | | Eco font or Ever Green font that can save up to |
| use chlorine free paper while printing. Instead of | | | | 15% of the ink consumption. Make sure you buy |
| petroleum based inks use soy or vegetable based | | | | laser toner cartridges or inkjet ink cartridges that |
| inks for offset printing. Petroleum based inks | | | | are made out of recycled materials or start |
| contain carcinogens which can lead to cancer. | | | | refilling the old ones yourself. Printer cartridges |
| Avoid usage of metallic or fluorescent inks as | | | | that are built on recycled materials are most |
| these inks contain certain harmful elements like | | | | often labeled as remanufactured. If you install a |
| heavy metals, barium, copper and zinc. On | | | | Follow-Me-Printing solution employees have to be |
| brochures, flyers or other printed pieces, press | | | | physically present at the printer to get printouts. |
| varnish or film lamination is used, but | | | | Return your empty printer cartridges back to the |
| bio-degradable, varnish are considered best in the | | | | loop by sending them to a cartridge recycler. |
| long run. Request online proofing of files whenever | | | | |