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July 31, 2008
Free Tool Saves Paper
Few aspects of printing are more wasteful for paper and consumables than when we try to print information from the Web. Fortunately, now there’s help, and it happens to be free.
Smart Web Printing, a compact application from Hewlett-Packard, lets users select text and graphics from one or multiple Web pages and print the information immediately or save it to a clipboard. Once there, the excerpts can be edited to remove any extraneous content, such as boilerplate material that often gets printed and immediately discarded.
“In the past, people would get that one page printed with just a URL at the bottom. That’s a piece of paper you are just throwing away,” says Tom Codd, director of marketing for Hewlett-Packard’s Worldwide Print Sales and Services Organization. “With HP Smart Web Printing you can fix that page-break problem, plus you can clip just the contents you want off the Web page so you don’t print all the borders and the ads that sometimes result in additional pages being printed.”
Users can also resize, rearrange, and combine the various clippings into a single electronic document prior to producing a hard copy.
End users may appreciate having their solution provider point them to the free application, which adds a new button to the Web browser’s menu bar. Offering the tip may also serve as a good conversation starter for discussing bigger issues, such as green printing and how tech refresh can cut costs at a time when belt tightening is the norm.
Posted by ajoch at July 31, 2008 10:17 AM
