Environmentally Friendly Printing

What It Is

Environmentally friendly printing combines sustainability among the printing of paper products. It involves practices that establish less harmful to the environment than customary printing practices. Some eco-friendly printing tips include:

• Using digital formats above printing whenever possible
• Using recycled paper
• Using recycled printer cartridges
• Purchasing soy-based ink
• Printing on both sides of the paper

Why It Matters

Printing uses trees and energy. It also produces unstable natural compounds (VOCs), which can harm your health.

Printing uses Lots of Energy

Printers and copiers are between the most energy thorough fixtures in the workplace. Printing fewer pages means using smaller energy, which helps the environment, as well as a business’s base line.

It Wastes Trees

Printing less can save dollars and thousands of trees. The regular office employee uses 10,000 sheets (20 reams) of paper each year, or more than one tree.

It Costs Money

With the entire cost of using and handling paper being wherever from $26 to $62 per ream, businesses spend a great deal of cash on printing. In short, printing less saves more.

It also produces VOCs.

Standard printer ink has fuel in it, which produces volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. VOCs are emitted as gases from sure solids or liquids and can cause short and long term health problems. Printers and copy equipment produce VOCs too, further increasing the amount of VOCs in the place of work.