Photocopiers
The cost of new photocopiers can be very high for businesses and the environmental cost of manufacturing new copiers can also be great. There are a number of steps that can be taken to reduce the financial and environmental cost of photocopiers and most of them can be followed very easily.
Energy-saving tips - Photocopiers
- Buy photocopiers second hand. This reduces their cost and the environmental impact of manufacturing new and disposing of old copiers.
- Find out the functionality of the photocopiers used currently. New photocopiers often incorporate printing, scanning, faxing and are internet connected if used correctly these multifunctional devices can save on the amount of photocopies and prints that are done and often cost less when compared to running several devices separately. Once the capabilities of the current photocopiers have been noted it will be much easier to work out which steps to reduce photocopying costs can be followed.
- Making sure that everyone in the workplace only use photocopiers or printers when necessary is very important. This seems a very obvious tip, but wasteful photocopies are made frequently in most businesses and just getting everyone in the workplace to think before they photocopy could make a substantial difference in cost both financially and environmentally.
- Numerous people use photocopiers to make a copy of a document they need to work on. Where possible employees should be encouraged to use photocopiers to scan documents and send them to themselves electronically, meaning any draft changes being made may be done on their computer rather than on a hard copy.
- Everybody in the work place should also take responsibility for switching photocopiers off properly every night to save energy. A number of photocopiers automatically switch into stand-by mode when not in use so energy can also be saved during the working day, potentially reducing energy bill costs.
- Use photocopier’s duplex function for double sided printing. This should be set to default, greatly reducing the amount of paper used and thus reducing costs.
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