• On MovieTome: The 10 worst movies of 2009 so far!
January 30, 2008 10:47 AM PST

GreenPrint offers free paper-saving software

by Elsa Wenzel
  • Font size
  • Print
  • 2 comments
Share
How green are your printing habits?

How green are your printing habits?

(Credit: GreenPrint)

A free flavor of GreenPrint software that enables people to waste less paper when printing became available Monday.

The new application, GreenPrint World, detects and highlights unwanted content, such as banner ads on a Web page, that tends to spill over onto extra pages. It also lets users delete images from the printed page and quickly create print-friendly PDF documents. The GreenPrint interface appears when users print from any program.

The software displays the amount of paper, money, and greenhouse gases users could be saving. GreenPrint estimates that regular usage may save up to $90 each year, the equivalent of more than 1,400 pages. GreenPrint aspires for widespread adoption of its product to spare 100 million trees from being chopped down and 300 million tons of greenhouse gases from polluting the atmosphere.

Only the paid Home Premium and Enterprise versions of GreenPrint offer faster-loading, ad-free print previews as well as tech support via e-mail and telephone. At this point the app is only available for Windows computers.

GreenPrint also sells the first "green" font, called EverGreen, for $10. It's supposed to take up one-fifth less white space than Arial, Helvetica, or Times New Roman. The company aims to design more fonts.

In November, GreenPrint partnered with Xerox 8560 and 8860 business laser printers. Xerox claims that its solid ink printers create 90 percent less waste than rival laser printers.

Canon, meanwhile, is aiming to outdo competitors by tacking a green label on the packages of its new printers.

Recent posts from Green Tech
Build muscle, charge your phone with YoGen
'Green' gas and diesel get boost in biofuel grants
Coke eyes climate-friendlier vending machines
California gives green light for space-based solar
Panasonic to invest $1 billion in green tech
Google Earth peers into California's eco-future
SmartSynch offers universal router for smart grids
New York eyes offshore wind farms on Great Lakes
Add a Comment (Log in or register)
by meg75us January 28, 2009 2:55 AM PST
This is an excellent service that I highly recommend to use, cuts away some unnecessary costs for ink and paper. For the interested reader, more tips on how to save ink and paper can be found in this <a href="http://www.inkguides.com/save-money-by-printing-smart.asp">green office printing</a> guide.
Reply to this comment
by sibley2125 June 24, 2009 3:41 PM PDT
I've tried your software on two of my computers, I keep receiving Inter fering from some other
company, Is this supose to be ? I also tried to down load to a third computer, I also
received a lot of false feed back, Please try to let me know just what is happen

Sincerely yours Sibley Smith
Reply to this comment
advertisement

The yogurt makers of tech: Gadgets to avoid

Don't buy these one-trick ponies--unless you like gizmos that gather dust.

Google wants to unclog Net's DNS plumbing

The Net giant, ever eager for a faster Internet, debuts its Google Public DNS service. With it, Google could become even more central to the Net.

About Green Tech

Innovation in energy and environmental technologies is long overdue, in business and at home. Green-tech guru Martin LaMonica and other CNET writers serve up fresh clean-tech news and commentary.

Add this feed to your online news reader

Green Tech topics

advertisement
advertisement
Click Here

Inside CNET News

Scroll Left Scroll Right