Green Printing

You can print green and keep the "green" attitude while accomplishing your printing needs. In addition to using sustainable printing materials, as well as keeping the green attitude alive while commercial printing, it takes a lot of effort on your part and your printer's as well to have an eco-friendly printing process. But it is also worth it when you see that it is not only more affordable sometimes, but you also add to the sustainability of our planet for the sake of our children.

Being green is also one way to market effectively to your target clients. You can make them interested in your business when they see that you are involved in helping the environment become more sustainable. By promoting the "green revolution" in your printing practices, many of your target clients will most certainly respect you for it and even be encouraged to help you cause by buying your eco-friendly products.

So here are simple and easy ways to help you print green.

1. Go for recycled paper.
2. Look for papers made from sustainably harvested fiber.
3. Choose a printer that is also eco-friendly.
4. Use vegetable inks.
   Check if your printer can apply inks that are soy based. By using vegetable inks in your print materials, you avoid damaging the environment with petroleum-based inks that are often traditionally used in most standard printing projects.

The future of printing

To print out a document, you rely on your local operating system, which must have a driver installed for the printer you intend to use. Printing gets more complicated when you want to print something from a mobile device. This is why Google is working on Google Cloud Print, a service that enables any application (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer.

Google wants users to be able to print to legacy printers via Google Cloud Print. This is accomplished through the use of a proxy, a small piece of software that sits on a PC where the printer is installed. The proxy takes care of registering the printer with Google Cloud Print and awaiting print jobs from the service. When a job arrives, it submits the print job to the printer using the PC operating system’s native print stack and sends job status back to the printer.

If print jobs are handled in the cloud you won’t need drivers, and most of the problems users have with printing from devices like smart-phones and tablets will be solved.