• The amount of paper a Fortune 500 company could save a year by setting duplex printing as the default…..800 tons.   HP

• Production of 1 ton (400 reams/40 cases) of paper produces 5,690 lbs. of green house gases.  Printgreen.com

• According to the EPA, it takes 13 oz. of water to make a single sheet of paper.  Further, it takes 10 times more energy to make a sheet of paper than to print on it!  Environmental Protection Agency

• The average office employee consumes 10,000 pages of paper per year.   EPA   It takes 60% of a tree to produce a case of paper – which equates to 1.2 trees a year per office employee!  Printgreen.com

• By 2010 half of the top 2000 companies will spend more on power than the devices they power.  All Associates Group

• The recovery and reuse of toner cartridges and paper diverts millions of cubic feet of material from landfills and saves power in less manufacturing.  State of California

• Three quarts of oil are consumed in the production of a single new toner cartridge and it will take over 1,000 years to decompose.  State of California

• Green IT made Gartner’s list of top ten strategic technologies and trends facing organizations in 2008 and 2009.

• What is your Green IT strategy?  We have the products and knowledge to help your organization develop a strategy that makes sense.  Isn’t time to think Green.

1. Change your printer default to print DUPLEX automatically to save paper.  Don’t know how?– give us a call and we’ll walk you through it!

2. Choose to review documents on your computer screen and not print them at all.

3. Email documents instead of printing and mailing.

4. Walk to the different floors of your company rather than using the elevator.  Saves energy and you get some great exercise.  If you happen to be carrying a huge stack of documents – see emailing  #3

5. Call Print Manage and schedule some time to discuss how you can Make Printing Smart – which will not only help make you more Green, but it will also save you some GREEN!