Savings Tip for People Who Print (almost) Everything...
If you regularly print receipts, order confirmations, bank
transactions and other "just in case" pages of information from various
web sites, this tip is for you:
Stop
printing on paper.
We will shortly describe how you can still accomplish what you used to
get by printing on paper - but in a way that not only would save
you
a lot of paper, you could also store your printouts in nicely organized
folders instead of having paper copies everywhere. You will also save
on ink, toner and electricity bill*. In short, you will save money.
Are you ready for the "secret"?
Print to a PDF
file.
In order to do that, you don't need to spend tens or hundreds of
dollars on the fully fledged Adobe Acrobat package. Instead, there is a
freeware package (which happens to be open source as well, thus it is
also free of spyware, nagware, adware or other types "strings
attached" that typically come with free software). It is
called
PDFCreator
and it can be downloaded from the venerable SourceForge.Net website:
Once you download and install
PDFCreator,
you will have an additional printer connected to your computer, a
virtual printer named
PDFCreator.
All you need to do, from now on, whenever you wish to print something
is ask yourself: "Do I really need this on paper?"
If you realize that it is really a better idea to save that information
to-be-printed on a file, simply select the printer instead of
your paper & ink printer.
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