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April 19, 2008
Easy Ways to Go Green
Solution providers can win customer loyalty by pointing out that green printing doesn’t necessarily mean big upfront investments and overhauled internal operations.
Xerox recently compiled a set of best practices that solution providers can pass along to their clients to help them reduce paper waste and boost productivity in the bargain. Xerox bases its advice on studies it conducted that alos show companies ditch 45 percent of the memos, reports, invoices, and other business documents they produce within a day of printing them.
To help reduce this level of paper waste, the company offers the followng suggestions:
Use both sides of the paper. Choose multifunction products that are able to print on both sides of the page and set the machines to default to duplex mode.
Go digital. Save on postage by sending electronic files and let recipients decide whether to print the content. Replace paper files with electronic ones using the scan-to-file option on multifunction devices.
Be selective. Print only the portion of the report you need, not every page. Preview your print job to avoid printing pages with boilerplate. Finally, print on demand rather than stockpiling forms, letterhead, or instructions that will go out of date.
Use the right paper. New mechanical-fiber paper, such as Xerox’s High-Yield Business Paper, offers the bulky feel of 24.4-pound stock with actual weights of only 17.7 pounds, which reduces the number of trees required to make the products.
Recycle. Collect used paper so the fiber can be used again. Recycling fiber not only saves trees, it reduces energy and water use, requires fewer chemicals, and keeps paper out of landfills.
Posted by ajoch at April 19, 2008 08:45 PM
