Please Help Us Save Paper and Toner

The cost of paper and toner to supply the open computer labs on campus is soaring. Did you know that in Grasselli Library alone, students printed almost 1million pages last year and that it cost over $15,000.00 to keep the printers supplied with toner?

Here are some ways YOU can help cut down on wasted paper and toner:

1. Use print preview before printing from MS Office or Internet Explorer. Be sure that what you’re about to print is what you really want.

2. Printers 1 and 2 in the Grasselli Library Computer Commons and both reference computers are duplexing, i.e. they print on both sides of the page. Please use these printers by default

3. If you are making corrections to a paper, print out only the corrected pages rather than reprinting the entire document.

4. Printer 3 in the Computer Commons will print single-sided copies. You can use this printer to print a final copy of a paper to turn in to your professor if a one-sided copy is required.

5. Please urge your instructors to accept assignments electronically through Blackboard so you don’t have to print them in the first place.

6. Urge your instructor to post your PowerPoint presentations on the class Blackboard site rather than printing multiple copies in the computer lab as class handouts.

7. If you must print PowerPoint slides, be sure to print them six slides per page and duplexed (2 sided printing).

8. If you are downloading articles from Grasselli Library Electronic Reserves or from our online journal collections, consider downloading the electronic file to your laptop, flash drive or network folders rather than printing them out. You can keep these copies for personal use and they will be much easier to carry around. You can also email copies of these articles to yourself to retrieve or download later.

If you need help understanding any of these, see the student assistant in the Computer Commons or ask one of the reference librarians.