Concept of saving printing paper

Green print
Papercalculator

Reseach-
Paper fact:

• 1 ton of paper = 400 reams = 200,000 sheets¹
• 1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333 sheets¹
• 1 ream (500 sheets) uses 6% of a tree (and those add up quickly)¹

Printing fact:

• Average cost of a wasted page $0.06²
• Average employee prints 6 wasted pages per day, that's 1,410 wasted pages per year!³
• The average U.S. office worker prints 10,000 pages per year³
• While 3 out of 4 office workers print from the Internet, 90% of people with a printer at home print Internet content⁴
• 56% of people ages 45-54 print pages from the Internet for their archives, and only 33% of people ages 18-34 do the same⁴

According to these calculate data, I have a question that how to let people know these information directly when they are planning to print out something unnecessary from computer. What can I do through interactive designing with printer to remind them the environmental impact?
In this project, I intend to let users learn the environmental knowledge about papers and get data from the computer screen during the process of printing.

• Provide a simple statement on your e-mail footer such as “Think Before You Print.”
• Provide a green installation including statement beside the printer.

^{Paper tips: THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT}

• Use both sides of the paper. It's called "duplex printing" and it is the single best way to reduce paper use. So choose copiers, digital printers and multifunction devices that can print on both sides of the paper. Add duplex as your "default" mode.
  
• Go digital. Save on postage by sending electronic files and let your recipient decide whether to print them. Replace paper files with electronic ones using the scan-to-file option on multifunction devices.
  
• Be selective: Print what you need when you need it. For example, print only the portion of the report you need, not every page. Preview your print to avoid printing pages with boilerplate. Print on demand. Don't stockpile forms, letterhead, or instructions that will go out of date.
• Recycle. Collect used paper so the fiber can be used again. Recycling the fiber saves trees, reduces energy and water use, requires fewer chemicals, and keeps paper out of landfills.