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January 03, 2007

Save Some Trees - Try GreenPrint

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to tread a bit more lightly on our planet, you could start by painlessly saving some trees using a plug-in reviewed in the Wall Street Journal Personal Technology Column by Walter Mossberg (Dec. 7, 2006) called GreenPrint.

The basic idea behind the product is this; when you print a web page, you'll get the information you need, but typically you also end up with a page with some unnecessary stuff such as, say, the copyright notice. ( Okay, maybe the copyright owner doesn't think it's unnecessary, but the rest of the world could live without it.) GreenPrint is dedicated to reducing the number of wasted pages printed from a web browser by analyzing your print jobs, and offering to eliminate things such as the last page with just a URL, banner ad, logo, or legal jargon.

Greenprint isn't free, but it is cheap; a mere $35 will help you feel like you're doing your part for the environment.

Posted by Cindy L. Chick on January 3, 2007 09:41 PM

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