New Year’s resolutions can be hard to keep, but lowering your personal computing’s carbon footprint is super easy. Not only will you save on energy costs, but you’ll save money and you’ll be more nimble and flexible in how technology is incorporated into your life. And if one of your resolutions this year was to [...]
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Updated December 28, 2010 This coming New Year’s Day, why not resolve to cut the amount of printing you do? The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) wants to make it easy for Mac OSX users with free software that saves print jobs to WWF, a PDF format. Sure, OS X already gives you the option to [...]
Read more Save paper, print to WWF
Want another reason to go paperless? How about this interesting stat from an Investopedia article on outrageously overpriced products over at Yahoo Finance: Over the life of your printer, you’ll probably pay more than 500% of the total price of the printer itself on ink refill cartridges. At $30, a 42ml cartridge of black printer [...]
Xerox’s ColorQube 9200 color printer received the Outstanding Achievement Award from office equipment testing outfit Buyers Laboratory Inc. The office printer has the distinction of using solid ink cartridges, which don’t require an outer plastic housing and therefore reduces waste….
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Despite all of the eco-friendly strides HP is making, we mustn’t forget that they are also a printer company. HP yesterday took the lid off a new all-in-one they plan to launch in the Fall. In addition to scanning,…
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Lexmark and O’Keeffe & Company recently polled federal agencies about their printing habits and what they found would make any eco-conscious taxpayer fume: Federal employees on average print 30 pages every work day, totalling 7,200 pages printed per employee, per…
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