Print Greener by Cutting Waste and Reducing Unnecessary Printing

Colleges and universities have taken a leadership role in environmental initiatives, conserving energy and water, using renewable energy sources, integrating native ecosystems into campus landscaping, building green buildings, and making recycling part of everyday life.

Still, the average college student generates over a hundred pounds of paper waste per year. Recycling this waste is very important, but it’s only part of the solution. The other part is preventing paper waste from being generated in the first place.

This is where Pharos Systems comes in. Our print management and optimization solutions enable students, faculty, administration, and staff to make responsible printing decisions — to print only what they really need. As a result, campuses generate dramatically less printing waste, eliminating the mountains of unclaimed printouts and overflowing blue bins that are associated with unmanaged printing.

Here’s a typical Pharos success story. One of our college customers reported a 93% reduction in paper usage in their main computer lab the day after Pharos Uniprint® was rolled out: from 20,000 sheets of paper per day to 1500 sheets.

Pharos solutions can foster green printing anywhere print happens on campus: not only in computer labs and libraries but also in administrative offices and academic departments.