Use Environmental Friendly Printers to Save Earth

In almost all the companies, printer is required to print important documents or letters. For printing purpose, if recycled paper, natural inks and cartridges are used it will not only reduce power usage but also cut down companies cost.

From ages, people are following the same old printing methods which have created adverse affect to the environment. Usage of certain heavy metals like lead, cadmium and mercury can pollute the environment. Usual printing methods are non-green, produces volatile organic compounds which can create adverse affect on the environment. For making paper, trees are cut and toxic chemicals are used which are harmful to the environment. But if recycled paper is used for printing purpose less trees will be cut which can save Mother Nature.

Throughout the world, all the companies should print green. To print green, they should use natural inks (vegetable or soy-based) and recycled paper. Environmental friendly printers are certified by certain agencies like Forest Stewardship Council.

Usage of soy or vegetable based inks
For printing purpose, companies use petroleum based inks which is a bad option as it can create health problems. Natural ink like soy beans or vegetable are used for newspaper printing, business cards and product catalogs. This natural ink can be used for printing your day to day documents also. Benefits of using natural inks are it can be deinked easily which becomes easy to recycle. Soy based inks discharge zero volatile organic compounds and it is available in various colors that enables bright printing.

Use recycled paper:
Go green by using recycled paper which has at least 30% post consumer waste. By choosing recycled paper you will create less strain on forest resources. Major advantages of using recycled paper over virgin (non-recycled) paper are it creates less air & water pollution, less water & energy consumption and less solid waste.

Use recycled cartridges
Most of the people, throw their inkjet cartridges in the garbage instead of recycling it. In U.S, every second, nearly 13 cartridges are discarded, according to a survey.  There are certain inkjet cartridges that can be refilled more than one. If you’re not interested in buying such type of cartridges, take your empties to your drop off center where it can be reused or recycled by others. There are certain companies like Hewlett- Packard that take back for free. Remanufactured plastic can be produced quickly when compared to a new one. In addition, remanufactured laser cartridges take half the amount of oil instead of a new one. So if you buy recycled cartridges you can save pollution.

These are just some of the ways to go green and save the environment. While using a printer, if you use recycled paper, recycled cartridges and soy based inks your printer will last for a longer period of time.