If you can build houses out of recycled ink cartridges, why not make an eco-friendly bike path? According to Inhabitat.com, that’s exactly what developers have done at the West MacDonnell National Park in Australia, where a new bike path has been made with recycled [...]

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Looking for new ways to conserve ink and save money? Besides buying compatible ink cartridges or printing in draft mode, a 2009 study from Printer.com suggests that you can save ink by choosing the right font. The test uses Arial as the default popular [...]

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Apparently the green movement is in full effect in the printer industry, as evidenced by the recent emergence of products like reusable paper, biomass toner, soy-based ink and toner, and a printer that uses coffee grounds as ink. Now you can add one more [...]

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Not too long ago, we talked about how Xerox was developing erasable printer paper that you can re-use over and over. Since then, Sanwa Newtec has introduced PrePeat, a printer with a thermal head that uses heat to print and erase text and images [...]

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Gasoline isn’t the only widely used consumable that uses petroleum. Laser toner uses it as well, although companies like SoyPrint are replacing petroleum with renewable substitutes that release lower emissions and take less energy to remove during the paper recycling process. Now we get [...]

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HP has been recycling ink and toner cartridges for awhile now, but it’s hard to verify the eco-friendly claims without hard evidence. Interestingly enough, a recent article in the Sacramento Bee talks about the cartridge recycling partnership between HP and the California state government, [...]

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Does anyone know what green means anymore? It seems like every company under the sun is finding ways to say its products are good for the environment. But how do you decide who’s serious about their claims? The best you can probably do is [...]

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If you read a news story online, you’ll probably see a “Printer Friendly Version” button that formats the page for a neater, more readable printout. But what if you want to customize how your printed webpage looks based on your personal needs? Print What [...]

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Consumer printers are going greener all the time with features like auto-duplexing and reduced energy consumption. Now the government is getting into the act by saving ink and paper as it prints nearly 120 million forms for the 2010 Census. These are the main [...]

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As we noted over a year ago, HP has its Planet Partners Program where you can bring empty cartridges into your local retail store to get recycled, then buy replacement cartridges to take home. But for those looking to streamline the recycling and replacement [...]

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