With these 12 tips to spend less on paper (and. ..

When it comes to paper, not just recycle - reduce and reuse as well - and save on the cost of paper and printing. Note that every time you use your printer not only spend money on paper, but the ink and inkwell. So if you save paper, save money on printer cartridges. And anyway, even a home office creates more environmentally friendly.

I know it sounds a little simplistic, but to save paper, printing less stuff. It takes a certain discipline and rethinking to put this into practice. Try these 12 tips and spend less on paper and toner.

1 Do you know your printer.

Learn to use the most efficient printer to save paper. Before printing, select "Print Preview" to check if a line is to print another full page.

Do not trust blindly displayed OK when the Print dialog box. See if you can reduce the area of printing pages that you need. If you really need on pages 2 and 3, 1 and 4 do not print as well. You can also select the text need and choose "print selection". This is particularly useful when web pages, and you can remove ads.

If you have difficulty printing, delete the printer pooling once you have solved the problem. Thus, the printer will spit you made six attempts before he realized that it was no more paper!

Two. Use a tablet or e-reader.

When you print documents, because it is easier and more convenient to read anywhere, investing in a tablet or e-reader. It can be used to read PDF and Word documents and recycle even notes in many cases, but when you are done out of paper.

Three. Take notes, web pages and bookmarks.

When viewing a web page, rather than printing an entire page only important for a phone number or address information record. You can also copy the information and in a Word document or other organization software like Microsoft OneNote. Or, if this is something you want to keep for the future, only one marker. (Keep organizes your bookmarks into folders so you can locate it later.)

April. Check carefully!

Be sure to check your work before you begin printing. But if you find an error cancel, press quickly, so that you only print one side wrong. If all copy before finding the error, then print the page with the error, not the whole document.

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This will save on postage. Do not use a copy for your records do not print. Electronically filed on your computer (but do not forget to save your recordings). While you're there, request electronic statements for your accounts and make your office paperless as possible.

6 Share documents online with free online Office tools.

Use to send and receive these free on-line documents on the web office tools. These can be downloaded and saved on the hard disk or online for you and your clients or colleagues can change without a sheet of paper to leave.

Put your fax memory 7 ..

Send and receive documents in PDF format instead of a fax. The quality is better, and is much easier, especially if you have a second line for fax. And if you have a second line, it is much cheaper because you get rid of that monthly bill. But hold on to your machine, just in case

8 Use the E-mail more. to print less.

Effective Email Writing is an important skill for a teleworker, but a good filing system for e-mails is almost as important. When this is done, and stored on the hard drive or the internet, e-mails rarely need to print. Creating folders in your email client and your email automatically classified. You will not save on paper; Also save time.

9 Set margins.

Use higher margins, smaller font and line spacing closer to more than one page. In the same vein, a ploy to save ink cartridges the printer is to use the "draft" setting or grayscale print quality.

10 advantage of family photos on a digital photo frame.

Time that I was not the practice of family photos print abandoned. I'd rather see a lot of pictures that take my digital frame, how little I could have chosen to turn into an album. And frankly, I do not have time to put them in a photo album. So I see my photos all photos of the time, that is, when I sit at my desk, working on homework with the kids, cleaning, etc., and it just will not let me WNE photo album.

11 printing on both sides of the paper.

This may mean creating a work duplex printing (sometimes called "duplex printing"), which could be a bit longer, but not really difficult (especially if you have learned to know your printer, as recommended in # 1).

It can also mean a new print job on the back of the old paper. Fill the bowl with misperceptions of age or ruffles files of children, to ensure that they provide the right path. After printing is completed, return the document to the wrong side and put a solid line, so that in the future, do not waste no time running around to find the correct page.

Of course, you may not want to discuss this technique to something that you send to the customers who use also works for internal documents or projects for children who are stuck on a poster.

12 Reuse old paper.

Despite all the efforts of our home to save on paper, we still have a lot of that at home. Wherever possible, the reuse of paper. You can not only print on the back, as explained above, but can also be used for other purposes:

• Halving the scrap paper for lists to make. (Cup, prevent them from mixing with the existing documents, but you can also have a line through it.)
• Form Staples recycled paper notebooks.
• Children enter, for drawing or scrap paper to make math homework.
• Shred for packing materials.
• If you use the electronic bill payment, store return envelopes that come and use their accounts for lunch money from children or small objects to send.