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I personally use the Scrapbook extension for firefox. It lets me delete things I don't want. Or I paste the article to PSPad (freeware), and I use the 'join lines' or 'remove redundant blank lines' function, and then I paste the text to OpenOffice writer with ctrl+shift+v (lets you paste text in plaintext), set the text to size 7 and I widen the document borders almost to the max. Et voila :)
Don't forget SnagIt!
I use it for all my online receipts and confirmations.
What about CuteWriter? "Prints" to pdf from any program so you don't even use your printer.
Has anyone noticed that treehugger themselves don't have print this page option !! So stop this hypocracy. If you are so concerned about saving paper, why did you put this article on 2 pages and not one?
Hi,
Nice overview indeed. As mentioned in this blog, we've been calculating the CO2 emission for our meetings. 65% or 669.6kg of the CO2 comes from the use of paper. The 100 kg paper puts a heavy burden on our CO2 emission. One might think that using recycled paper shouldn’t place such a load on the environment. In fact, it doesn’t make such a difference: 7 kg CO2 for non recycled paper versus 6 kg CO2 for recycled paper. It isn’t the paper itself put the printing is the evildoer: 4.5 kg
I'd like to add Print what you like as a tip.
Eddy
I agree with teejay wholeheartedly. Treehugger is a great, great, great site. That being said it is probably the WORST site I know in its need to reformat things in order to print them. There is so much extraneous graphic stuff floating around and the articles go on to too many pages. Please fix this. Thanks.
I use Fine Print to save paper but i also highlight the section of a web page i want and in the IE print menu click on "selection" to print only that highlighted section thus saving paper and ink in two ways.
In Firefox you don't need any extra software to print just parts, highlight what you want, go to File-->Print and in the menu choose "Selected" under the "Print Range" option.
I understand some peoples concerns on Treehugger articles being on multiple pages.
However, if you really cared about saving paper, why would you be printing these articles off anyways? People will look at you strange when you say, "Hey check out this article I printed off on saving paper"
Welcome to a digital word, bookmarks and txt files, think of the trees you save by not printing at all.
I love to use PrimoPDF. It allows you to create pdf documents for storing on your hard drive. I use this in my home network to keep my kids from wasting my ink. They save the documents and then they let me know so I can see if it really needs to be printed or not.
Click here to visit PrimoPDF.com
I've always wondered though, at least for larger documents, is the energy used to print off say a 10 page article both sides, and then sit in your living room and read it actually more than used by sitting with your computer turned on, and reading the 10 page article on the screen?
For the recycled vs. the new paper; although it may not be much different in terms of energy usage, I always try to use recycled paper. There is plenty of old used paper out there for us to use, and we don't need to be cutting down more old growth forests for this stuff.
Thanks for the great tips on printing software!
Find more tips on reducing ink and paper or read the other excellent articles on the subject here att treehugger.
why will greenPrint give it free for Win XP for home use,but not for Mac 10.5 for home use.Thank You
It seems this extension doesn't work with firefox 3, which is by far the most popular version, so what's the point?
Great article. Thank you for sharing this information. I use eCatalog Creator to convert my paper catalogs into eco-friendly digital catalogs. So now I don't even spend a dime on printing. My printing and postage costs are totally gone, and I am glad that I am marketing my products using an environment friendly product.
Go ahead and check out the page flip catalogs.
There is a great new guide for lowering paper use around the office: Paperless Express. It was developed by StopWaste.Org and is available for free download: http://www.stopwaste.org/paperless.
In addition to the how-to's approaching paper reduction in the office, there are also very practical sample forms and worksheets. StopWaste has done the heavy lifting here -- so you don't have to!