Courtesy In 2004, the U.S. used 8 million tons of office paper (3.2 billion reams). That's the equivalent of 178 million trees.

Unless you're a slave to the preview option, you probably print unwanted Web pages with mostly white space and just a footnote of text or a miniscule banner ad. For shame. How do you live with such waste?

Here's an idea: Don't. Go GreenPrint instead.

GreenPrint software (printgreener.com) minimizes wasted ink, wasted paper and, ultimately, wasted trees by letting you remove unwanted or unnecessary pages, text or images before you print. See a page with only one line of useless text? Skip it. Want a Web page without images?

Zap the pics and keep the words. GreenPrint easily works with any printer, so it's like a greener print preview.

GreenPrint also offers easy PDF creation, as well as a tracker that tells you pages and money saved. And yes, you can configure GreenPrint for your personalized green printing.

Try GreenPrint World, which is free for home use. World might be ad-based and have fewer features than the licensed versions, but it still more than does the job of reducing wasteful printing.
 
Trees and toner cartridges will thank you.

René A. Guzman | 210SA Contributor