Green Printing in Denver
I’ve been writing a lot of articles on how to print green here in the Mile High City. A lot of people are extremely interested in being more green in their everyday lives, but the transition to being greener in ALL parts of our existence can be difficult. Let me give a personal example: I recently stopped drinking bottled water completely. I like bottled water. It is convenient, guaranteed to meet minimum health standards, easy to transport, and it’s a breeze to recycle the bottles. However, I started thinking about how much unnecessary waste I was generating due to my love of convenience. I tallied up how much water I like to drink per day (about 4 bottles). At $.06 per bottle (for the least expensive brand I like), it penciled out to over $87 dollars per year. For $50 I was able to buy a water-filter pitcher and two filter cartridges, which enable me to purify twice the amount of water. It is greener, and it costs me less than half to drink a similar standard of water. Generally, being green in your printing, and being green in your life are like this. It may take one little extra [...] read more
Printing Green Helps Your Bottom Line
I was thinking this afternoon about business and environmental responsibility. Why it is people are so resistant to “being green?” The problem, I concluded, is that most business people who think this way (from any generation) equate being “environmental” with being extreme or expensive. So, I’m making it my mission to convince people that being green (at least in their printing) actually SAVES money and doesn’t require you to stop shaving or live in trees! While taking more extreme measures to minimize your impact on the earth is noble, I completely realize most people aren’t going to do it unless it’s painless. So, what I have been doing (and am going to continue doing) is giving you ways to save money AND help minimize your impact on our landfills and petroleum reserves. Here are some examples so far: 1. By printing with the most efficient printers, you reduce your cost per print (see some of my Xerox Phaser series articles) and use of petroleum based products, which saves you money. 2. By doing more duplex printing, you save paper…you got it, AND money. 3. By switching from OEM HP cartidges to SoyPrint compatibles, you save several pounds of petrolum based [...] read more
SoyPrint Article from Idiana Soybean Alliance
Here’s an article from the Indiana Soybean Alliance web site about their partnership with SoyPrint. There is a lot of excitement here in Denver (and the printing community overall) about this new product. We here at Pahoda Image Products recently became distributors of SoyPrint cartridges here in Denver! I boldfaced the type on Rick’s statement at the end of the article. His points are extremely important, and they make so much sense for the hesitant buyer. Even the most staunch anti-environmentalist can’t help but be impressed by the localism of the product. It’s made here in the US (for HP and Cannon brand printers), so all manufacturing must be at least up to our environmental standards! Enjoy: –Everyone can print black, but now consumers can make the choice to print green. SoyPrint is an environmentally-friendly, soy-based printer toner cartridge that is making its way into the marketplace thanks in part to funding from the Indiana Soybean Alliance’s (ISA) Indiana New Ventures and Enterprises in Soy Technology (INVEST) program. “The award of this grant, and the creation of the INVEST program itself, speak volumes about ISA’s leadership and ingenuity in the industry,” said Rick Greenlaw, vice president of SoyPrint. “Once again, [...] read more
HP Compatible Soy Printing
We are just getting our green partnership started here in Denver with SoyPrint products. It’s exciting to carry products that assist our customers being green (without making it brutally expensive!). SoyPrint’s cartridges are designed primarily for the business or school using HP OEM cartridges. They are more expensive than compatibles, so if price is your determining factor, you’ll probably want to look at our compatibles. If you still want to be green in your printing and you do a fair amount, buying the HP X cartridges saves plastic by putting more toner in a similar cartridge. Here’s a Denver Post article about soy printing if it’s something you find yourself interested in: http://www.denverpost.com/technology/ci_12199498 It’s a pretty fair piece on the subject, and it’s cool to see Denver interested in more sustainable printing practices. If you’re on the fence with soy printing, it’s a good idea to do your own research. It’s funny being in sales, because people don’t believe something unless they have read it online first. It’s so much easier selling to knowledgeable customers. Most of what this blog is about is giving Denver IT and business people information about green printing, the toner industry, and getting the most [...] read more
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