Print Greener by Cutting Waste and Reducing Unnecessary Printing

To a large extent, green printing is less printing. The page that never gets printed is the greenest page of all. Pharos Systems offers both technology and services to help your organization print less. We take a holistic, integrated approach to print optimization that goes far beyond monitoring devices or users; it’s about doing everything possible to change behavior and business processes, away from a reliance on paper.

A key component of our approach is Pharos Blueprint® Enterprise software, which offers a number of applications to foster green printing. One of them is Policy Print™, which enables organizations to communicate with users at the time of print to encourage (or require) eco-friendly printing decisions, such as printing 2-sided or not printing particularly large documents. Another is Secure Release Here®, which gives employees a second chance at the printer to decide what they really need to print.

But software is not sufficient to achieve or maintain a sustainable printing environment. This is why we offer services as well as technology. Pharos dedicated On-Site Print Specialists are change agents for eco-friendly printing. They use fact-based reporting at the user, job, and device level, in concert with Lean Six Sigma process methodology, to continuously identify ways to reduce print volumes, improve workflows, and influence end user printing behavior. They have implemented successful "intelligent printing" campaigns for many of our customers that have significantly reduced unnecessary printing and waste.