3 Ways to Go Green with Print Management

Running a green company is no longer a trend, it’s a necessity. Keeping up with your industry demands and sustainability goals can be difficult to reconcile. Print management is a solution that assesses your current print fleet and printing policies to help your company create a more efficient work place. Here are three ways print management will work on your environmental impact.

1. Produce Efficiently

The goal of print management is to reduce wasted paper and consumables. Efficient printing lessens the burden on your printing fleet. To get to the point where you don't overwork your machines, and they are energy efficient you must undergo an infrastructure analysis. The analysis is the first step of print management.

An analysis will show if misuse of printers is taking place, say large print jobs to a smaller machine, or if heavy color projects are utilizing the wrong printer. The more energy your printers consume, the less green they are. With project management in place, you will be able to control your power consumption much more judiciously.

2. Work Digitally

As you begin to see a decrease in printing, you will notice more tasks completed digitally. Though using less paper is a benefit of going green, you’ll also be more at pace with business in the digital world. Many companies prefer to collaborate over cloud software and have used the newfound flexibility to their advantage.

3. Print Sustainably

Lastly, but most importantly, print management will increase your green meter by reducing your printing. Print management aims to take your current infrastructure and implement print policies that help your business reach sustainability goals.

These policies can help employees to consider where they can cut back on printing and what settings they can apply that will cut back on the consumption of paper and ink.

While many companies utilize print management to for the sole purpose of creating new print policies, it has a multitude of benefits. If running a green business is your priority, call us today to learn more about print management.