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Sustainable Printing Practices for Modern Businesses

The most effective sustainable printing practices: duplex by default, secure print release, shared fleet printers, and equipment recycled at end of life.

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Sustainable Printing Practices for Modern Businesses - Sustainability article about printer leasing
Published 5 August 2024Updated 12 June 20266 min readCyrus DickieSustainability

The most effective sustainable printing practices are default duplex printing, secure print release, and shared multifunction devices. Energy efficient equipment that is responsibly recycled at end of life completes the set. Secure print release stops abandoned jobs piling up in output trays. Consolidating personal desktop printers into shared devices cuts both energy use and toner waste.

Environmental Impact

  • Reduced paper consumption
  • Energy efficient devices
  • Recycled materials
  • Carbon footprint reduction
  • Waste minimisation
  • Circular economy principles

Smart printer leasing choices support each of these practices, because leased devices are kept current, serviced and refreshed at the end of the term.

Understanding Environmental Impact

Traditional printing practices have a substantial environmental footprint that extends far beyond paper consumption.

The entire lifecycle of printing operations impacts our environment, from paper production and waste management to energy consumption.

The disposal of toner and ink cartridges presents another environmental challenge, while equipment lifecycle management requires careful consideration to minimise environmental impact.

Understanding these factors is the first step toward implementing more sustainable practices.

Our managed print services help organisations track and reduce their environmental impact through detailed usage analytics.

Those analytics drive the waste side as much as the cost side.

Consolidating devices and setting duplex as the default cuts both pages and cartridges before anything reaches a recycling stream.

Businesses working through that locally can see print usage tracking for Esperance businesses and print waste reduction in Ellenbrook.

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Sustainable Printing Solutions

Our eco friendly printing solutions represent the cutting edge of sustainable technology.

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*Based on comparison of total cost of ownership over 60 months for typical SME print volumes (2,000 to 10,000 pages per month). Individual savings vary.

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Kyocera ECOSYS technology is particularly noteworthy, featuring long-life ceramic drums rated by Kyocera at up to 600,000 pages on select models, which reduces consumable waste.

Those long-life drums matter most where service visits take longer to arrange. A regional example: a Kyocera printer lease in Kempsey includes the drum and toner in the monthly amount, so the low-waste consumable design and the servicing sit under one agreement.

Energy efficient equipment significantly reduces power consumption while maintaining high performance.

Automatic duplex printing becomes the default, instantly cutting paper usage in half.

We source high quality recycled paper options that meet professional standards while reducing environmental impact.

Our comprehensive cartridge recycling programs ensure proper disposal and recycling of consumables.

Advanced digital workflow solutions minimise unnecessary printing and optimise resource usage.

Benefits of Sustainable Printing

Implementing sustainable practices delivers multiple advantages that extend beyond environmental benefits.

Your organisation will see immediate reductions in operating costs through decreased resource consumption. Understanding the benefits of printer leasing and printer lease pricing across Australian device tiers helps you build a defensible business case for sustainable equipment.

Your corporate image benefits from demonstrable commitment to environmental responsibility.

Workflow efficiency improves as digital solutions streamline document management.

Perhaps most importantly, you'll ensure compliance with increasingly stringent environmental regulations while positioning your organisation as a leader in sustainable business practices.

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Transform Your Printing Impact

Make the switch to sustainable printing practices and join organisations in reducing environmental impact while improving efficiency.

Our offerings make eco friendly practices easy to adopt without sacrificing quality or productivity.

Choose eco friendly printer leasing in Sydney, low energy printer leasing in Perth, sustainable printer leasing in Adelaide, or green printer leasing in Canberra.

Regional operators in tourism, hospitality and agriculture often care most about the waste side of this.

Consumables and end of life devices are harder to move once they are on site.

Cellar doors, tour operators and local professional practices can start with low waste printer leasing in Margaret River, where returned devices and toner cartridges go back through the supplier rather than into local landfill.

We also deliver sustainable printing solutions anywhere else in Australia.

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With the right combination of technology, processes, and support, your organisation can achieve significant environmental benefits while reducing costs.

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Cyrus Dickie, Founder at Global Document Solutions

Cyrus Dickie

Founder, Global Document Solutions

You deal with the founder directly, from first quote to ongoing support, since 2010.

Authored by Cyrus Dickie, Founder at Global Document Solutions. In the industry since 2010.

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