The February award for cost savings initiatives goes to Boris Torrejon from Space Utilization and Analysis for his suggestion involving GreenPrint software solutions. This software is available free to individuals and represents a way that each of us can help do our part to save money, time and trees.

Software solutions can be great time savers for all of us at FAU. On occasion they may also offer cost savings as a result of their efficiencies. On rare occasions they may have a positive environmental impact. And on even rarer occasions they are available to individuals at no cost!

GreenPrint’s software helps solve a problem we all can relate to: The ubiquitous wasted page. These wasted pages occur many times a day, littering offices around the world and wasting money, trees and time. GreenPrint also provides a free alternative to printing and filing reports all together, in the form of a PDF writer.

GreenPrint provides a simple solution to printing to PDF. This preserves the document format including web pages without wasting paper. This PDF writer is also incorporated into the print preview so any document can easily be saved to file (after eliminating wasted pages) rather than being printed. For most users, this will also eliminate the need to buy a separate PDF writer such as Adobe Acrobat, etc.

GreenPrint integrates a reporting function that allows users to easily monitor their printing habits in order to quantify the dollars and pages the software has saved.

A Win/Win Solution. GreenPrint is unique in that it saves time and money while benefiting the environment, rather than trading off cost reduction and environmental friendliness. We hope this win/win outcome will help to fundamentally shift the way individuals view green technology.

Before implementing this or any other software recommendation, we suggest that you contact FAU’s Desktop System Services (IRM) to inquire about any compatibility concerns.

You can view the GreenPrint tutorial at: http://printgreener.com/tutorial.html

The world edition can be downloaded at: http://printgreener.com

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