GreenPrint

Mom is loving this new product. You have to check it out. It will help you save trees, money, CO2, toner, time, energy, and more. Whew! What a list of things to save by using one little product. This is one of those things that is not too good to be true.

So what is GreenPrint and how does it work? GreenPrint is a product that you can download here that eliminates wasteful pages in any printout automatically. Mom is always telling me how much paper is wasted when you try to print directions from Mapquest, so she doesn't print them. Not printing them has nothing to do with the fact that she sometimes gets lost, but if there were a way to print the directions without the map and banner ads, she would definitely do it.

GreenPrint works by analyzing each page of every document that is sent to your printer. It looks for typical waste characteristics like a last page with just a URL, banner ad, logo, or copyright. This is stuff that you don't need printed. By eliminating this stuff, you can print only what you need, thus saving trees, money, CO2 - you get the picture. It also features a PDF writer, a print preview called GreenView, and a reporting feature that keeps track of the number of pages and amount of waste you have saved.

According to the GreenPrint website:

• If all US households with a computer used GreenPrint, over $6 billion would be saved each year.
• If all new computers used GreenPrint, greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by over 117 million tons (like taking 23 million cars off the road for a year).
• If all new computers sold in 2006 used GreenPrint, over 36 million trees would be saved every year.

Using GreenPrint is a no-brainer. Did I tell what the best part is? GreenPrint is free! Yeah! Just download and start printing responsibly. Do your part to help Mother Earth and as always, spread the word. We are all in this together.