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Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Gauti — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:17:37 -0000

good one

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Janet Smartt — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:35:31 -0000

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!

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Samantha — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:56:23 -0000

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.

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

LT — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:57:06 -0000

It seems this extension doesn't work with firefox 3, which is by far the most popular version, so what's the point?

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Robert Lo Bosco — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:18:30 -0000

why will greenPrint give it free for Win XP for home use,but not for Mac 10.5 for home use.Thank You

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Matt Bale — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:29:20 -0000

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.

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Joe — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:18:23 -0000

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.

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Lee — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:35:29 -0000

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

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Winston — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:00:45 -0000

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.

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Matt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:53:24 -0000

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.

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Judith Prosser — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:16:51 -0000

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.

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:34:29 -0000

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.

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Eddy De Clercq — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:43:30 -0000

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

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

teejay — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:22:04 -0000

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?

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

Drip — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:47:04 -0000

What about CuteWriter? "Prints" to pdf from any program so you don't even use your printer.

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

bryan_05 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:33:38 -0000

Don't forget SnagIt!

I use it for all my online receipts and confirmations.

Re: Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

damndom — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:25:09 -0000

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 :)