Print Smart – It’s Green & Streamlined

Streamlining, saving resources, and simplifying are some of the foundations of being productive. Printing more efficiently is one of the ways you can do all three things – simplify the paperwork you have to manage, save the resource of paper and all the elements that go into its production and streamline your systems.

Naturally the first consideration is whether you need to print an electronic document in the first place. A local company appends this to the end of every email:

Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. 

A client prints every PowerPoint just before she races off to meetings because she's so overbooked. Until we get the booking issue streamlined, here's a hint for printing more effectively that will work for her and perhaps for you – print 2 pages per piece of paper. This practice also saves time – printers are only so fast so printing 2 pages per sheet of paper will print in half the time!

Here's a sample - click on the thumbnail to see a full-size version.

You've probably seen it before but haven't bothered to figure out how. So, here's a Productivity Café 'how to'.

When you're ready to print, open the Print Dialogue box (start printing) with ctrl-p (we love shortcuts...) or click on file, print, print. Match your dialog to the sample below, select your 'page density' or how many pages will go on each sheet of paper and print it in the 'zoom' area in the bottom right of the dialog box. Print, read, and enjoy being a greener printer!

 

Comments

[brochure printing]

Update printing of feature set bits

Newer Itanium versions have added additional processor feature set
bits. This patch prints all the implemented feature set bits. Some
bit descriptions have not been made public. For those bits, a generic
"Feature set X bit Y" message is printed. Bits that are not implemented
will no longer be printed.

[Lorie Marrero]

Susan, this is a FANTASTIC tip on so many levels, and a new one on me! Thank you!

- Lorie