Green Print: Blog
Green Print Tips
Tuesday 22nd November '11
The best ways to greener print and hopefully not print at all !
Consider enhancing your Green Print credentials by
thoroughly investigating the View options within Microsoft© Word… precluding the need to
print at all!
Under the View tab [Word 2007/2010] you will find Full
Screen Reading with the option to view one or two pages, without the
distraction of toolbars, and to increase the size of the font (temporarily) for
the purposes of review. From this screen
you can make corrections – optionally redlining the changes.
If you have been used to paper drafts it will take a little
while to get used to reviewing text on screen, but there are cost savings to be
made on both paper and toner, together with the benefits for the environment.
An Inexpensive and
Practical Aid
Labelling of printer trays is a simple and inexpensive aid to
eliminating paper waste and contributing to your Green Print goals.
If everyone in the office takes responsibility for occasionally
replenishing the printer’s paper supply it can only help if the trays are
clearly labelled with the paper type. In
the case of letterhead it is also helpful to give guidance as to how it should
be loaded – e.g. “Logo facedown and to the back”.
PowerPoint©
Presentations
Your Green Print objectives may be severely undermined by
the print requirements of a PowerPoint©
presentation. Slides commonly contain
photographs and diagrams and often have a solid colour background - all of
which require a high density of toner when printed.
The multi-media elements of the presentation (animation,
video clips, background music or voiceover for example) will be lost on the
paper version. Why not consider burning
the presentation onto a CD in the original slide show format – or even as a DVD
video?
In the absence of the Office suite, PowerPoint© Viewer will need to be
installed in order to run the slide show.
This is a free download from Microsoft™
and for your client’s convenience you could include it on the same CD.
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