{"id":876,"date":"2011-05-05T19:16:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T19:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=876"},"modified":"2017-06-19T18:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T18:07:26","slug":"print-release-station-saves-trees-c02-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2011\/05\/05\/print-release-station-saves-trees-c02-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Print Release Station Saves Trees, CO2, Real $$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Print Release Stations<\/strong>, which we&#8217;ve tested a bit in McCabe, and have been testing in the <strong><a title=\"Beardsley Media Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/x31674.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Beardsley Media Center<\/a><\/strong> continuously since Spring Break, have led to real savings in resources not used&#8230; \u00a0that is, jobs that people send to the printer, but choose not to actually print (or just forget to pick up).<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>past one month<\/strong> (April 5, 2011 to May 5, 2011) we have saved a total of <strong>8,159 pages<\/strong>, of which, 5,847 were color pages and 2,312 were grayscale. \u00a0They would have been printed on 5,807 sheets of paper (some people choose duplex). \u00a0To put a value on this, it translates to approximately <strong>$1653.29<\/strong> (when you add up the page costs, including electricity, paper, toner, ink, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Possibly more interesting, this translates into <strong>49.9 kg of CO2<\/strong>, or <strong>1,645.3 hours burning a light bulb or 7.214% of a tree!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Print Release Stations, please contact <a title=\"Seth Frisbie-Fulton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/itsstaff.xml#Frisbie-Fulton\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Frisbie-Fulton<\/a>, or <a title=\"Doug Willen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/itsstaff.xml#Willen\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Willen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Print Release Stations, which we&#8217;ve tested a bit in McCabe, and have been testing in the Beardsley Media Center continuously since Spring Break, have led to real savings in resources not used&#8230; \u00a0that is, jobs that people send to the printer, but choose not to actually print (or just forget to pick up). In the past one month (April 5, 2011 to May 5, 2011) we have saved a total of 8,159 pages, of which, 5,847 were color pages and 2,312 were grayscale. \u00a0They would have been printed on 5,807 sheets of paper (some people choose duplex). \u00a0To put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2011\/05\/05\/print-release-station-saves-trees-c02-real\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Print Release Station Saves Trees, CO2, Real $$<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,99,113,127,109,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-technology","category-computer-classrooms","category-facultystaff","category-media-center","category-public-computing","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-e8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}