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The number of pages printed
by UK office workers has
dropped by a massive 40%
in the last 12 months,
from an average of 10,000
sheets per year to just 6,000
according to the latest annual
environmental survey by
Kyocera Mita. This is the first
time print volumes have fallen
since the survey started in
2007.
Tracey Rawling Church,
Director of Brand and
Reputation at Kyocera Mita said:
“We’ve been hearing about the
‘paperless office’ for decades,
but this is the first concrete
evidence we’ve seen that shows
office-based workers’ love
affair with the printed page is
beginning to wane. There is far
greater confidence in mobile
technology and electronic
information, meaning that there
is less demand for the comfort
of a piece of paper.”
Another factor might be a
growing trend for automated
systems such as mandatory
duplex (up 5% from 2010) and
card-controlled access (up
8% from 2010), though user
education is still thought to be
the best way to promote good
printing habits (cited by 68%).
Rawling Church added: “As
more organisations begin to
deploy managed document
services, we are seeing an
increase in the use of print
policy software and card-based
access systems, which mandate
improvements in print efficiency.
What’s interesting to see is that
IT Managers still place strong
emphasis on the softer aspects
of user education around cost
and environmental benefits of
good print practice.”
www.kyoceramita.co.uk/
survey2011
winter 2011/12
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Print volumes down by 40%
Meeting IT managers’ desire
to educate users about the
impact of their printing choices
(see story above), GreenPrint
Technologies has added
GreenPrint Advisor to its range of
software solutions. This pop-up
takes a softly, softly approach
to print policy enforcement by
recommending an alternative
printer to the one selected by
the user, if a greener option is
available. Users can route the
print job to the recommended
printer with just one click or
choose to ignore the advice.
Kent Dunn, VP of sales at
GreenPrint Technologies, argues
that giving users the final say
over which printer to use is
preferable to enforced re-routing
of print jobs. “We don’t redirect
prints because it’s a really bad
policy: it’s intrusive to end users
and you can’t know what their
reasons for choosing a particular
printer are,” he said. GreenPrint
Advisor is distributed in the UK
by NewField IT.
www.newfieldit.com
Robert Fulton has won the ‘Take
a view’ Landscape Photographer
of the Year competition organised
by Bayeux and sponsored by
Network Rail and Epson. Limited
edition Digigraphie prints of the
finalists’ work, including Robert
Fulton’s winning Winter Field,
Stirlingshire, Scotland can be
seen at a free exhibition running
at London’s National Theatre
until 28th January 2012. The
Digigraphie prints were output
on an Epson Stylus Pro 9900
large format printer using Epson
UltraChrome HDR ink.
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Mobile Print
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Kyocera Mita has successfully
retained its Carbon Trust
Standard certification after
an audit by the Carbon Trust
showed that since first gaining
the Standard in 2008 it has
achieved a 10.2% reduction
in CO
2
emissions relative to
company turnover. Initiatives
undertaken by Kyocera Mita
to drive carbon efficiency
include an emissions cap on
company vehicles that will be
progressively reduced as cars
become more fuel-efficient; a
server virtualisation project;
printer fleet rationalisation;
and the enforcement of print
policies.
©Robert Fulton – Winter Field,
Stirlingshire, Scotland
Softly, softly approach to green printing
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