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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 600 Pages Per Semester Color pages cost double Duplex discount Additional pages can be purchased $5 for 100 pages

Student Printing at Goucher College

Cost of Student Printing at Goucher College Approximately a $12,000 reduction PaperCut: Cost Effective: 50,000 users -> $13,000; 20,000 users -> $5,400

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 218 Ft of Paper! Print Wisely! Fall 2009 Semester Students Printed half The Height of the Baltimore Marriott 218 Ft of Paper!

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.