Green printing now a reality

Sustainable Business Oregon reports.

The new software, GreenPrint Advisor, released as a public beta, enables users to send print jobs to the most efficient and least expensive printers.

GreenPrint Advisor categorises all printers in a corporate environment as either 'red', 'yellow', or 'green' based on the printer's cost and efficiency attributes, Market Watch says.

When a user prints to a 'red' or 'yellow' printer, and a 'green' printer is available, Advisor pops up with a message highlighting the undesirability of the selected printer and the savings possible if the job is transferred to a 'green' printer.

IT administrators can customise these tags and provide per-page costs, What They Think writes.