Green printing: In first month, it saves paper, trees, money

Those CIT people at UW-Green Bay who won national publicity last year with their push for leaner, greener, less ink-intensive but more cost-efficient typefaces? They’re at it again, but this time it’s with a new commercial software application called GreenPrint. About 800 employee workstations had GreenPrint installed in late February. The program not only encourages faculty, staff and student workers to make more conscious decisions before hitting the “print” key, it also filters out extra, unneeded pages before they reach the printer. So far, the program has documented campuswide savings of 20,000 pages not printed. Using a cost factor of six cents per sheet, that’s about $1,200 in savings in less than a month. You can read more.