Clutter Video Tip: Mean, Green Printing Machine

http://www.clutterdiet.com/freetips Get organized with home organizing tips from professional organizers at The Clutter Diet. Go green and be more productive with your printer. Whether your office is at home or downtown, these printing strategies will increase your productivity, reduce your frustration, and help you be more Earth friendly. In this video Lorie Marrero gives you quick, easy steps to reduce, reuse, and recycle from your desk. You can be more efficient and save yourself time and money by following this advice. These Clutter Video Tips are posted frequently here on our clutterdiet organizing channel. You can search Twitter for #ClutterVideoTip also to find comments on our organizing tips. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and ambassador of the Donate Movement.

Transcript:
Hi, I'm Lorie Marrero and today's Clutter Video Tip is about how to be greener and more productive with your printer. So one thing I like to do is have stackable trays with the printer paper and also [POP] scratch paper that I save. Everyone has fax confirmation pages and other sheets that print with only one line on them, and you can use these over again by feeding them back into the printer, printing on the back, for unimportant documents.

I also like using 100% recycled paper. Staples has this. It's not 25% or 15% recycled, it's 100%. So that makes a difference for the environment as well.

Another thing you can do is on your computer's printer settings, you can set them to draft mode and then you can print using less ink.

A great guideline in organizing is to keep supplies at their point of use. So here we have a stamp that we use for faxing and we have just Velcrod that right to the side [POP] of the printer where we need it.

Another thing about printers is they often come with a universal symbol printed on them to show you how to feed the paper through and sometimes those are illegible or even incomprehensible and what I recommend instead is to print out a label with words on it that tell you how to feed the paper through. That helps so much, especially when you're in a hurry. We have one here that says "Print Side Down, Facing Forward," and we have another one up top that says, "Face Up." So that will help you be a little bit more productive with your printer too.

If you like these tips, you can visit our website at clutterdiet.com/freetips.

See you next time, and may you always be happy and grateful for having more than enough.

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[andylmqs]

Very good. almost perfect :)

[SierraSunsetSky]

When your printer says the cartridge is low, remove the cartridge, tap the cartridge several times on a flat surface to knock ink down into the cartridge. Put the cartridge back in the printer and continue printing. I can usually get 15 to 20 more pages of print from this method.

[veg4life]

Another great one - Lorie!! Another option for printer is "Fast Normal" instead of "Normal" mode. I also recommend to change default from "color" to "black and white," to save color cartridges. Lastly, ldproducts has great re-manufactured cartridges. Clyde Lerner of ITM Computing

[CaublasianMom]

100% recycled paper - that's great!