It’s not a request to “think only” to print or not.
It’s a request to not to print unnecessary documents.
As we believe that your thinking will not make any change, infact
your change will ultimately change and make a difference.
Every day, people hit the print button even after knowing the fact
that this particular print is just for their viewing purpose and not required
to be filed as important. They also know and understand the effect of printing
and wasting pages.
But why they do like this: - May be the following few points will
give a clear idea for that: -
1. They are not used to
read the documents on the screen.
2. It’s just a habit for
some to go for printing as soon as some official correspondence is received.
3. They believe it more
convenient to make any correction on the hard copy and then forward or keep
with them.
4. They don’t care for the
paper wastages and the global effect of the same.
In my official email id, I have around 13K mails and if I would
have printed all of them, then they would be more than 50K (avg 4 pages per
mails, excluding attachments)
I personally have seen many peoples who just go for printing the
papers without having any necessary requirements.
But is there any alternative for the same.
But is there any alternative for the same.
Yes we can save papers by just following the below steps: -
1. Check before printing
that this is the final outcome of the report you have prepared.
2. Don’t print the casual
conversations; only print the outcomes and final reports. For e.g. if you are
in conversation with your client on the sales, offerings for your company’s
products. In this case you have to focus on the PO only (i.e. Purchase Order)
You don’t need to print what you offered earlier, how the negotiations gone,
etc.
3. Make a place in your
office for rough papers. And inform all to use these papers when they print the
uncompleted reports.
4. Before printing, go for
print preview. By this you can adjust your margins, etc so that you can exclude
those papers which don’t contain anything to print.
5. Use double sided prints.
{Why do we use one side for printing when we can print on both the sides? Do we
also use one hand even after having gifted by two hands by god}
6. Recycle the office
papers. Organize a meeting on this topic for the awareness of everyone in your
office.
7. Go Digital – You can
store your files online also, only most important documents can only be
printed.
I don’t know that how much the above article will impact on you
and your understanding but definitely we
need to change to make a change.
Finally it’s a fight between what you believe and what you do.
Thanks & Regards,
BS
