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Fenland College: Green Action Plan
by Kat Kozak
approximately 175
classrooms with 26
different subject
areas
3500 students
and 300 staff
3 printers per
classroom / 2
printers per subject
area
=
x 65
• Printing practices
• New equipment
• Re-manufactured
cartridges
• 100% post consumer
recycled paper
• Recycling
• Ink-efficient font
• Digital storage solutions
• Printing Balance
18, 266 kWh of energy 272, 956 CO energy and paper emissions 137, 547 kg of paper £184, 185 of energy and paper costs
power off every day
pull printing
duplex printing
HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One
This award-winning ENERGY STAR® qualified
multifunction series offers several features to
reduce paper waste, including automatic
two-sided printing and copying, a junk fax
blocker,1 and the ability to fax to a network
folder or email and scan to a computer.
Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) recognized the
HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One series
with its award for Outstanding Achievement in
Energy Efficiency. In fact, the HP Officejet
Pro 8600 e-All-in-One series uses up to 50%
less energy than color laser printers in its
class.
Help reduce the environmental impact of every page you print. Use up to 70%
less supplies and packaging by weight compared with color laser printers.
The HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One series also delivers professional color
printing at up to 50% lower cost per page than color laser printers in its class.
HP Color LaserJet CM4540 MFP
This ENERGY STAR® qualified multifunction
powerhouse doesn't just combine printing,
scanning, copying, and faxing into one package.
It also has HP Auto-On/Auto-Off Technology, for
energy savings of up to 50%. A built-in image-
preview function avoids waste from printing
mistakes, and HP FutureSmart Firmware allows
you to easily update and extend capabilities,
lowering the cost of future replacement.
“TonerGreen is an eco-friendly printer supplies retailer that has been
providing environmental responsible printing solutions since April 2009
under the name TonerforEarth.com. Its main product line includes
U.S.-made remanufactured toner cartridges and remanufactured inkjet
cartridges that are highly compatible to replace printer cartridges in
printers under popular brand names such as HP, Brother, Canon, Dell,
Lexmark and Xerox.”
“Echo Paper is adding to our natural resources one case at a time by
planting a tree for every case of paper sold. In addition to not cutting
down trees when our 100% post-consumer waste papers are made,
we're putting trees back in the ground. When you purchase paper from
the Echo Paper Store, you are not only getting a sustainable paper
product made of 100% post-consumer waste, but you are also helping
the environment.”
“HP produces low-carbon solutions and energy-efficient products,
using safer materials and greener packaging to lower our customers’
environmental footprints. Our design leadership and technical
innovations in reducing the environmental impact of
technology have been widely recognized.”
using 20 cases of
100% post-consumer waste
rather than non-recycled paper
saves the following resources
13 x
273 x
+ enough energy to power an average household for 37 days
+ 18.5 thirty-two gallon garbage cans
+ 1,039 pounds of greenhouse gases (equivalent of carbon
sequestered by about 13 tree seedlings grown for ten years)
14-year-old Suvir Mirchandani was trying to think of ways to cut waste and save
money at his Pittsburgh-area middle school as a science-fair project. Interested
in applying computer science to promote environmental sustainability, Suvir
decided he was going to figure out if there was a better way to minimize the
constant flurry of paper and ink used for the handouts he got every day.
Collecting random samples of teachers' handouts, Suvir concentrated on the
most commonly used characters (e, t, a, o and r). First, he charted how often
each character was used in four different typefaces: Garamond, Times New
Roman, Century Gothic and Comic Sans. Then he measured how much ink was
used for each letter, using a commercial tool called APFill® Ink Coverage
Software.
Next he enlarged the letters, printed them and cut them out on cardstock paper
to weigh them to verify his findings. He did three trials for each letter, graphing
the ink usage for each font.
From this analysis, Suvir figured out that by using Garamond with its thinner
strokes, his school district could reduce its ink consumption by 24% and
realized that by making the change his school could save as much as $21,000
annually.
In case of the Fenland College, choosing the right font could translate to saving
at least £10,000 annually.
EchoPaper:
https://www.echopaperstore.com/plant-a-tree-
program.php
Suvir Mirchandani’s Font Story:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-
saving-typeface-garamond-schools/
Class Sizes Study:
http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/whyclasssizematt
ers
HP Carbon Footprint Calculator:
http://www.hp.com/large/ipg/ecological-printing-
solutions/carbon-footprint-calc.html
TonerGreen:
http://www.tonergreen.com/about-us