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PRINT LESS FROM
YOUR COMPUTER
Despite all our digital technology, British offices still churn out 120 billion printed pieces of
paper per year. Placed on top of each other, all of this paper would produce a single stack
13,200 kilometres (8,200 miles) high.
A large proportion of this printing is unnecessary. “Please do not print this e-mail or attachments unless
Probably few office workers realize what a large you absolutely need to”.
cumulative impact that carefree printing habits can
have. Most of this unnecessary printing is the result of a
habit of thought where casually hitting “print” seems
Printing and photocopying can represent as much as not to matter. Reminding employees of the potential
5 percent of the costs of even some large businesses. savings, both in environmental and financial terms,
But few companies have any stated policy or and implementing some sort of policy about what
centralized management practice when it comes to documents should or should not be printed could end
printing. Costs in this area could be cut by up to 40 up saving you a surprisingly large sum.
percent with improved document management and
better technical support and management of
hardware and consumables.
A simple measure is to switch on duplex (double-
sided) printing as the default function, which many
printers, particularly office models, allow. And while
many companies append legal disclaimers or notices
to email signatures, consider following the example of
a company like Craigslist, the classified ads website,
which ends the emails that it sends with the message,
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