"CTRL + P Paper to PAUPERED"

"CTRL + P Paper to PAUPERED"


One of the most important things that go unnoticed when wasted is PAPER. We don’t feel the pinch as most of us in the corporate world pay for it directly. —after all, paper is pretty cheap— But having more ethical values about it would make it a lot easier to save it.

People take it very Easy & Ignorant, while taking the Print Outs. This may be due to:

1) Lack Of Awareness (Though Most Of them are Well Educated!!!)
2) Care-Free Attitude- (after all, paper is pretty cheap, Company Shall Bear the Expenses!)How People Mis Use Paper….
1) Take Unnecessary Print Outs
2) Print Outs of E-Books (And it is also Not ethical to take print outs of E-Books)
3) One Sided Print Outs

Most of the times, the printed materials are not used once it is read. Later they are found in the Bin or lying in a corner.

Paper accounts for more than half of all municipal solid waste (a.k.a. trash). Anything we can do to save paper will help reduce the amount of trash going into landfills, and it will also reduce energy use and pollution associated with manufacturing, transporting, and recycling new paper products. Perhaps most importantly, when we save paper, we reduce the need to cut down trees to make new paper.

How best can we reduce the Usage of Paper……???

OK, by now we know that the "Paperless Office" is a myth. Infect, computers seem to have actually increased our use of paper. So at least we shall make an attempt to minimize the Usage of Paper.
All we need to do is, be cautious before doing Ctrl+P.

Review Drafts Using On-Screen Tricks

One can often get "screen blind" after looking at a document on the screen for a long time, and reviewing a printout allows one to catch errors that would have gone unnoticed. An on-screen trick that will allow We to review your document from a seemingly different perspective is to temporarily change the font size of the text (typically making it larger). This makes the words easier to read and shifts things around a bit, giving your eyes a new view of the document. If We have already implemented formatting that a change in font size would mess up, try increasing the apparent font size by setting the zoom to a higher percentage (or set it to "Page Width").

Print Pages, Passages, or Sections

Sometimes We may need a printout of only part of a large or medium-sized document. Perhaps We need to review one or two pages of a many-page document, or maybe We need just one section of a large spreadsheet. We may find the printing options in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint helpful in your quest to review your work but also minimize the number of pages We print.

• Microsoft Word: To print only the current page—i.e. the page where your cursor is—select Edit/Print, click the "Current Page" option button, and then click OK. Or We can print a range of pages by clicking the "Pages" option button and entering the range of pages We want to print (e.g. 4-5).

• Excel: The above "page range" approach will also work with Excel. Alternately, We can select a range of cells in your spreadsheet; then when We go to print, click the "Selection" option button on the print dialog. If We do this, it's a good idea to then do Preview to make sure the printout will be what We expect. If it's not, We can use the Setup option from within the Preview frame to tweak the page orientation, the margins, or the "Adjust to" percentage to get the printout arranged the way We want.

• PowerPoint: The following options on the print dialog will help We print only the pages We want:
o clicking the "Current Slide" option button will limit the printout to just the slide We are currently viewing;

o Clicking the "Slides" option button and filling in a slide range will limit the printout to a range of slides.

Use Double Sided:
Anytime We have to print or make photocopies, always try to do so double-sided. Most copiers today have features that will allow "one-sided to two-sided" copying, and many laser printers allow "duplex" printing. Check with your office geek if you're not sure.

If your printer does not allow double-sided printing, We can do it manually using Microsoft Word's printing features:
• First print the odd pages;
• then flip the printed pages over and put them back in the printer;
• Then go back to Word and print out the even pages.

Print “Two Up”

Some computer software—such as Microsoft Word—allows the printing of two reduced-size pages on one sheet of paper. (We can usually print even more pages per sheet, but once We get beyond two, things get very hard to read.) The "two up" printouts look sort of like the pages of a book, and they cut your paper use in half. We can even use double-sided printing in combination with two-up printing to cut your paper use by 75% compared to "normal" one-up, one-sided printing. Again, check with your office tech-support person if We have trouble figuring out how to use any of these options.

Print Again on the Blank Side

If you have paper that was printed on one side that is staple-free and wrinkle-free, We can use it again for making draft printouts. If We have a personal ink jet, We can keep your draft paper in the same in-printer stack as the clean paper and just flip the stack around, depending on whether We need a final printout (on virgin paper) or a draft (on once-printed paper). If We share a laser printer at the office, We may be able to agree to use the #2 paper drawer for draft printing.

Use Obsolete Print outs for Note Paper

For paper that still has a blank side but isn't pristine enough to go into the printer for one last round of printing, We can still get more out of it by using it for taking notes at meetings and whatnot. A clipboard is a convenient way to create a scrap-paper notepad. If you're a hard-core paper saver, We can cut old printouts into fourths or sixths and make a stack of them to use for writing notes and phone messages. Both methods will reduce the number of new note pads and message pads We need to buy.

Cheers,
Akshay Balchandra
Ramanujan Melkote
Sudheer Keshav