GreenPrint Saves Trees
Don't you hate it when you print out an itinerary or driving directions and the last page has nothing but a two-line URL on it? Now GreenPrint helps you avoid printing useless pages, saving both ink and paper.
Once you download the free World edition of GreenPrint, it will become your default printer setting. Then, each time you click on Print in your web browser, Word document, or other application, you'll get a preview with the pages that GreenPrint doesn't think you need highlighted in red. You can still print these pages or discard them, and you can also choose to remove images and banner ads from the pages, which will make your color ink cartridge last a little longer.
GreenPrint keeps track of how much ink, paper, and money you're saving -- and in addition to the trees that won't be harvested, you'll be saving energy and water that would otherwise be used in paper production and shipping.
Full disclosure: I haven't been able to actually test out GreenPrint, because they don't yet have a version for Macs (but one should be available by the end of the year). The free version includes an ad before every print preview, but the $35 Home Premium version doesn't. Any other downsides? If you Windows users decide to download the software, I'd love to hear what you think in a comment below!
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You should check out FinePrint also (http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/). It is similar, but it allows you to print multiple pages per sheet of paper (i.e. 2, 4, or 8 shrunken pages per sheet). If you have decent eyes, you can really save lots of paper by doing this. It also allows you to turn off graphics, like GreenPrint. The other cool thing is that you can collect and consolidate print jobs, meaning that, for example, you can print 4 one-page documents from different sources all on a single page. It's a little more expensive, but the trial version works great for me. No Mac support, however, and also no free trees included :)
Posted by: gte449i | March 13, 2008 at 01:45 PM
The link in the last post included an extra parenthesis and a period. Here is the actual link:
http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/
Posted by: gte449i | March 13, 2008 at 01:47 PM