Sustainable Practices For Businesses to Ensure Printing Efficiency

As businesses continue to find ways to reduce their environmental footprint, their knowledge of sustainable printing methods should grow. After all, it’s in their best interests to follow eco-friendly protocols and achieve advanced printing efficiency. Inefficient copiers are associated with higher operating costs, wasted resources, and a negative environmental impact.

Sustainable Printing is Efficient Printing

Sustainable printing involves practices and printing technologies that minimize cost and dampen the environmental impact of business-grade printing. Your organization can become more sustainable using more advanced eco-friendly printing technology. Eco-friendly print equipment will save you money, lower your expenses, reduce waste, avoid misprints, save electricity, and streamline your toner or ink usage.

With that said, shouldn’t printing advancements alone ensure an eco-friendly future for printing? All you need to do is get more advanced tech, right?

Not necessarily.

Simply using advanced printing technology isn’t enough to achieve true sustainable printing. Advanced technology will always be used because printing is a critical function for many businesses.

Printing improvements naturally increase efficiency and result in sustainability. Still, to ensure sustainable printing and meet your organization's goals, it’s best to apply sustainable practices in tandem with modern equipment.

The future of the “paperless office” has not come to pass, and the offline reality is that paperwork still exists. Traditional printing practices consume large amounts of renewable resources.

Adopting sustainable printing practices is more beneficial than ever, offering multiple business advantages such as faster work, less waste, and reduced costs.

Have Not, Waste Not

Paper isn’t the only resource used in traditional printing. There’s also electricity consumption, ink and toner cartridge usage, and machine parts that wear down on every single printer unit.  Making sustainable policy changes is essential to conserve these resources.

Traditional printing can involve inefficient practices, such as using different models of printing and photocopier machines, even if they’re the same brand. This poses challenges to the workers, resulting in different paper standards and the costly use of different toners.

In addition, outdated or obsolete machines have different requirements than new machines, resulting in differences in storage, maintenance, and even electrical consumption.

Simple Solutions to Promote Sustainability in Printing

More efficient printers, combined with reliable service, can help your business dramatically reduce costs. For example, SumnerOne has saved the Hickman Mills C-1 School District around $1 million by eliminating single-function desktop printers and supplying better hardware and software.

Your business, too, can enjoy huge savings with our expert advice on print technology and sustainable print solutions, which include Konica Minolta bizhub MFPs, PaperCut MF, HP Latex Print and Cut, Laserfiche Software, and more. It’s also important to train users on sustainable practices, which the district did.

SumnerOne also helped St. Louis Community College to consolidate four print shops, streamline its 180-device fleet, and optimize its staff. We enabled them to reduce their fleet while enhancing service and usability.

Other eco-friendly printing practices we recommend include:

• Using materials that are more environment-friendly
  
• Changing your printing processes to reduce mistakes and waste production
• Adopting state-of-the-art printing technology that increases efficiency

The good news is that technological advancements will naturally make printing processes much more efficient and less wasteful, leading to eco-friendly, sustainable printing.

We also recommend using trusted brands like Xerox, HP, Canon, and more. For example, Xerox toners are non-toxic and don’t produce hazardous waste. Xerox achieved its objective of reducing water consumption by 35 percent as early as 2017, much earlier than its 2020 target.

HP's print products are made using recycled materials and ocean-bound plastics. Meanwhile, Canon’s inkjet presses offer various environmental benefits due to their use of ultra-long life piezo print heads as well as water-based pigment inks.

Take The Step Toward Better Printing Efficiency and Sustainability

Sustainability in printing pays enormous dividends, eliminating hazardous materials, decreasing waste, improving printing efficiency, improving cost-effectiveness, streamlining the printing process, and making everything environmentally friendly.

Efficient printing means achieving compliance with environmental regulations and meeting your environmental goals as a business.

If you’re looking for advanced print solutions that promote money-saving and environmentally friendly​​ printing efficiency, get in touch with us today!