Our commitment to sustainability at Xerox includes helping you find ways to work smarter and, faster, while improving your bottom line and the environment. Share ideas with co-workers and management in your company to create a green office and make sustainability part of your company’s DNA.
Ten Steps to a Green Office
#1
Use default and optional settings to make it automatic
Adjust your print driver default settings to duplex, which automatically will print on both sides of the sheet. Deselect the cover sheet and you’ll avoid printing a sheet unnecessarily. If you want others to know it’s your print, select the watermark option and you can place your initials or some other identifier on the sheet in a conspicuous fashion. Set draft modes and toner-saving modes for prints that don’t require high-quality output.
#2
Select energy-efficient printers and multifunction printers that bear the EPA Energy Star and EPEAT labels.
Print on both sides of the page, which is called “duplexing.” Print multiple images per page and print only the quantity you need at the time you need it. Print on paper certified to sustainable forestry standards or use paper with recycled content.
#3
Choose innovative printing technologies,
such as Xerox-proprietary Emulsion Aggregation (EA) Toner. EA Toner offers sharp image quality, great reliability and low total cost of ownership because it reduces the amount of toner needed for printing a page and requires lower fuser temperature. That means reduced electricity consumption and CO2 emissions compared to conventional toner.
#4
Recycle office paper, and print on recycled papers
or FSC certified paper.
#5
Engage your employees in fun ways.
#6
Use scanning to enable digital workflows
By turning manual, paper-based processes into efficient, digital ones, you’ll save paper, time and money and reduce the number of errors.
#7
Send used toner cartridges back to Xerox
through our Green World Alliance recycling program, which prevents millions of supply items from entering landfills each year. You can even consolidate returns of five to 30 used supply items in a single box and ship them to us.
#8
Implement secure printing to hold print jobs at the device
until a user enters a PIN to claim them. A time-out feature deletes unclaimed jobs. This prevents forgotten prints from piling up at the device.
#9
Look for pre-owned or remanufactured equipment
produced to meet original factory specifications. It’s tested and checked by Xerox technicians and comes with a warranty. Buying remanufactured saves you money, and saves millions of pounds of material from entering landfills.
#10
Trade in your old device
for cash toward a new Xerox printer or multifunction printer. We can dispose of your old device properly, or remanufacture the parts to reduce waste.