TallyGenicom Recommends Five Tips to Reduce Carbon Footprint

All companies are involved in printing work on a day to day basis which is taking a toll on our eco-system. TallyGenicom, a leading solution provider for printers for businesses has recommended five tips to enable companies to reduce the carbon footprint.

Here’s an abridged version of the recommended printing tips:

1. Use recycled cartridges – Using remanufactured cartridges will save companies at least 40% of the printing cost. The company will not only have cost implications, but can make an impact on environment as well, as the non-biodegradable plastic heading to landmines will reduce considerably.

2. Use recycled paper – This statistic should tell the whole story: one ton of paper from recycled pulp saves 17 trees, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 7,000 gallons of water, 4,200 kilowatt hours, 390 gallons of oil, and eliminates 60 pounds of air pollutants.

3. Duplexing prints – Duplexing prints will reduce the paper used at most by 50% which can protect against deforestation, and the statistic mentioned above can be applied again.

4. Use electronic forms – Companies tend to waste reams of pre-printed documents when they go in for a change of telephone number, company logo among others. Instead, companies should avail the technology currently available that allows data associated with general use forms to be pre-loaded electronically into a laser printer and automatically merged with existing print data streams to help eliminate paper waste.

5. Optimize printing infrastructure – Companies need to reassess their printing needs and should work towards centralizing and consolidating printers. A step such as usage of thermal printers over laser printers which consumes lesser power needs to be employed.