Micro Opportunities - No. 16

A regular fortnightly-ish feature, highlighting a specific micro volunteer action with either a 'do good', 'green' or advocacy flavour.

'Green' Action - Paper Saving Printing

GreenPrint

How many extra pages do you really need when you print that page from a Web site? And how many sheets of paper do you generally recycle after replicating that page?

GreenPrint is a piece of software that you download to your pc that allows you to have greater control over what you print as well as making it easier to omit the stuff you don't want to print. It gives you the facility to highlight and remove unwanted pages, especially those one sentence tag-on pages that seem to get printed off when you're printing a webpage. Other features that help you save on costs include a PDF creation tool, Remove Text tool and a facility to produce a report detailing how magnificently 'green' you've been.

Choose the GreenPrint World version as it's free for non commercial use (at homes, schools and non-profits), although it is supported by adverts. The developer of this piece of software reckons that you could save around £64 ($100) on your printing, paper and ink costs as well as collectively saving millions of trees.

As the website states, 'Millions of trees can't be wrong'!! (not sure what they mean by that, but who am I to pass comment)

Website: http://www.printgreener.com/
Time taken: A few minutes to download and install
Impact: Paperless office? Well, more like the Less Paper office!
Cost: Nothing
Similar-ish sites: FinePrint, ECO-SAFE

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