Print Management
Printing Reduction with PaperCut
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Student Printing at
Goucher College
Prior to Print Management
• Unlimited Printing
• Wasted Jobs
• No Accountability for
Wasteful Printing
Student Printing at
Goucher College
Introduction of the Print Wisely Program
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600 Pages Per Semester
Color pages cost double
Duplex discount
Additional pages can be purchased
$5 for 100 pages
Student Printing at
Goucher College
700,000
600,000
500,000
Pages Printed per Term
400,000
300,000
Implemented PaperCut
200,000
34% Reduction in Printing
100,000
0
2005
2006
2006
2007
2007
2008
2008
2009
2009
Spring
Spring
Fall
Spring
Fall
Spring
Fall
Spring
Fall
Black & White Pages
618,645
409,175
464,629
564,943
526,438
598,076
567,973
582,954
616,642
Color Pages
38,505
24,316
19,991
28,546
35,210
45,581
51,930
46,619
33,948
Cost of Student Printing at
Goucher College
$40,000
$35,000
$30,000
$25,000
$20,000
$15,000
$10,000
$5,000
$0
2005
2006
2006
2007
2007
2008
2008
2009
2009
Spring
Spring
Fall
Spring
Fall
Spring
Fall
Spring
Fall
Color Cost
$2,888
$1,824
$1,499
$2,141
$2,641
$3,419
$3,895
$3,496
$2,546
Black & White Cost
$30,932
$20,459
$23,231
$28,247
$26,322
$29,904
$28,399
$29,148
$30,832
What’s Next?
How do we reduce printing (again)?
Build Awareness
Fall 2009 Semester
Students Printed over 2
times the Height of the
Goucher Chapel
Fall 2009 Semester
Students Printed half
The Height of the
Baltimore Marriott
218 Ft of Paper!
218 Ft of Paper!
Print Wisely!
What’s Next?
How do we reduce printing (again)?
Build Awareness
In Fall 2009,
we printed enough
pages to pave
the way from
Goucher to Temple
in Paper.
107 miles
Print Wisely!
What’s Next?
How do we reduce printing (again)?
Offer Alternatives and Suggestions
Tips for Students to Print Wisely
•Ask “Do I really need to print this?”
•Print double-sided.
•Don't print ALL the pages. Select only pages you really need to print.
•Print multiple pages on one page in PowerPoint, PDF, or Word docs.
•Select text from a website, copy/paste into MS Word, and print just that text.
•Bookmark websites instead of printing the page (Delicious, Google).
•Print to PDF for electronic copies instead of paper copies.