It may not surprise you, but nobody on campus prints more than the students.\u00a0 So at the request of students and in an effort to make a significant reduction in the amount of paper printed in the N250 Open Lab, Computing Services has recently set up duplex printing (ie double sided)\u00a0as an option for all printers in N250.\u00a0 Previously, the printers in N250 could not print in duplex mode; in\u00a0October, 2009 we acquired new\u00a0hardware\u00a0to enable this feature.<\/p>\n
To give you a sense for how much printing is done in N250 each quarter, consider this:\u00a0since the new hardware came online at the end of October, students have printed 1,132,903 pages.\u00a0 In the first two weeks<\/em> of Winter quarter 2010, students printed 250,000 pages.\u00a0\u00a0 The duplex feature was installed on February 3rd, 2010 and since then students have printed 59,282 pages in duplex mode – obviously usage of this feature is rapidly catching on and during the first two weeks of Spring quarter, hopefully students will utilize this feature to do most of their printing.<\/p>\n By using duplex printing, we can dramatically reduce the amount of paper we use.\u00a0 Some students have asked for duplex to be set as the default printing mode, but this hasn’t actually been put into effect yet because greater awareness of the feature should be increased first and dialogue should occur about the default use of this feature.\u00a0 Issues of concern were raised; for example, some faculty apparently do not want their students to submit work printed double sided and some students might need some training or assistance using this feature as well.\u00a0 Of course, students will not always want to print in duplex mode, too.\u00a0 So, for the time being, lab managers plan to create awareness of the option through signage and\u00a0notices posted on the informational LCD screens in the lab.<\/p>\n Additional efforts to reduce the amount of paper and toner used are also being researched for possible implementation in the near future.\u00a0 These additional efforts include software that provides an easy to use, customizable interface to prompt users and help them make better choices about their specific printing tasks.\u00a0 For example, one piece of software we are currently evaluating allows users to easily remove images and delete blank (or mostly blank) pages from their document before sending to the printer.\u00a0 Another allows users to print in an \u201ceco-mode\u201d and thus use less toner without impacting print quality.\u00a0 Further discussion is also being encouraged with other strategies, like decreasing the default width of margins, decreasing default font sizes, better reuse of paper, etc.<\/p>\n Wider implementation of these settings and any software solutions we might employ will be the topic of future postings.\u00a0 But if you are interested or concerned about this, let us know!<\/p>\n – Justin Hart, Chair<\/p>\n Green IT Subcommittee, Environmental Advisory Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It may not surprise you, but nobody on campus prints more than the students.\u00a0 So at the request of students and in an effort to make a significant reduction in the amount of paper printed in the N250 Open Lab, Computing Services has recently set up duplex printing (ie double sided)\u00a0as an option for all ...more about Duplex printing in N250<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[143,173,212],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waste","tag-information-resources","tag-paper","tag-student-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10412,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions\/10412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}