Oct 28 2009
GreenPrint Version 2.0
A while back on Sustainable Printing, I introduced my readers to GreenPrint, a technology that saves unwanted pages from being printed from the internet. Earlier this summer, GreenPrint Technologies came out with GreenPrint Version 2.0, which promises to be a large improvement over the previous program.
As detailed in this article from the New York Times, GreenPrint has had its time of hardship and struggle. While the idea of reducing print pages from the web is brilliant and desperately needed, it wasn’t as easy as the founders of GreenPrint had hoped. The first version was slow and often, people would turn the program off because they didn’t want to have to wait so long to print. Because of this and other technical issues, GreenPrint had a hard time landing contracts with large corporations.
There was one company, however, that decided to partner with GreenPrint in a unique way. Xerox has been including one free copy of GreenPrint software with the purchase of any of their solid-ink printers. I also wrote a post on Xerox’s ColorCube being an eco-friendly alternative to office inkjets. Coupling solid-ink technology and GreenPrint software, an office can greatly reduce its environmental impact from printing.
Even if you don’t buy a Xerox solid-ink printer, you can download a free copy of GreenPrint World for home use at printgreener.com. For more features and usability, GreenPrint Home Premium is available for $29 per license, and GreenPrint Enterprise is available for businesses.
I encourage you to try GreenPrint as an eco-friendly way to reduce your printing.
