NTU Environmental Guides

How To… Print Sustainably

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Summary

•This guide is designed to help you reduce waste and conserve energy simply by altering your printing habits. The guide will show you how to:

• Find the nearest printer that will print double sided

• Default all printing to that printer

• Alter the print settings to print double sided

• Utilise other features to cut down on printing wastage

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Finding the Right Printer• From your start menu click on ‘Printers and Faxes’

Click on ‘Add a Printer’ in the top left of the window

Follow the instructions in the Add Printer Wizard. Select to set up a network printer and click next.

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Finding the Right Printer

Select ‘Find a printer in the directory and the following box will appear. Click on the Features tab

Select the feature ‘Can print double-sided’ and go back to the Printers tab

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Finding the Right Printer

If you know where your nearest printer is type in the location and click on ‘find now’ to narrow your search.

If you know the make and model of the printer you need enter this to narrow your search

Select the right printer for you and click on OK

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Finding the Right Printer

Set this printer as your default printer so you will always have the option to print double sided

Click on Next and then on Finish to complete your printer set-up

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Changing your print settings

Click on the Start menu and then on ‘Printers and Faxes’

Right click on the printer you want to use and select ‘Properties’

To set your chosen printer as the default right click on the icon and select ‘set as Default Printer’

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Changing your print settings

When the window opens click on ‘Printing Preferences’

Click on Ecoprint to automatically print on both sides of the paper. Click OK and this will become your default setting.

N.B. Different printer makes and models will have different preferences. Look out for ‘duplex’ or ‘double-sided’ printing options

Other waste-cutting features

If you don’t need to worry about presentation, printing two or more pages per sheet can halve your printing.

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This also works when printing PowerPoint hand-outs. You have options to print 1,2,3 or 6 slides per sheet.