Keeping it Green!!!

The University of Virginia's College at Wise is committed to taking care of our environment and helping our campus to be environmentally aware.  

This is why we have installed a software solution for print management for the campus called Print•Limit Pro from Netop.  This system gives students a generous supply of free paper at the beginning of each Fall and Spring semesters.  The system helps students track their quota and print usage and allows student to share their paper quotas with other College students.  

If students need to add paper to their quota, they can purchase pre-paid code cards in the Campus Bookstore and enter the code into our Print•Limit Pro web system for an immediate boost in quota.  Students, visit this site by clicking here!

Print•Limit Pro even shows students the environmental impact of their printing.  The screenshot below shows the display of printing environmental impact right in their account balance control panel.

Our program details...

UVa-Wise students receive $30 of print paper free per year.

To add pages to your account, just purchase code cards at the UVa-Wise Bookstore to refill your account at .10¢ per page (available in $5, $10, and $20 refill cards). 

Double-sided (duplex) printouts cost no more than one-sided printouts for our students.

Track all your print activity through our Print•Limit Pro web control panel.

See your environmental impact through the control panel and see what difference you are making to the environment.

Did you know?

• Every ton of paper made from recycled materials saves about 17 trees.
• Recycling paper uses 60% less energy than manufacturing paper from virgin timber.
• Nearly 81.3 million tons of paper and paperboard waste was generated in the U.S. in 1994.
• Americans throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.
• Paper and paperboard constituted the largest portion of the U.S. municipal solid waste in 1999, representing 38.1% of the total waste by weight.

Sources: Environmental Protection Agency,
http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/housewaste/src/paper.htm and 
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/facts.htm, and Draw Enterprises Inc.,
http://www.recyclingit.com/recyfact2.htm

Here are some helpful tips you can use to reduce paper waste:

• Preview your document. Almost every program has a print preview feature. Make sure you are getting what you want before you send the job. Print preview can catch mistakes that are easy to make, like printing with the wrong orientation (landscape or portrait) or printing on the wrong size paper. You can also spellcheck your document the spell checking tools included with most word processors, including Microsoft Word.
• Print only one copy. The printers are not intended to be used as copy machines. Please do not abuse your free printing privileges by printing multiple copies of a document.
• Be patient for your printouts. Some documents, especially those with large or detailed graphics, take a long time to print, it can sometimes seem that your job didn't make it to the printer. You may also have your document stuck in the queue behind another person's job that is taking a while to print. You can ask the cluster consultant on duty to check the printer queue for the status of your print job in Trumper.
• Talk to your professors. Some professors may allow you to e-mail assignments to them in order to reduce paper waste. In classes where you have to provide handouts for a project, send copies to a class e-mail list or listserv.
• PowerPoint handouts can be made with three or more slides per page. This option is available under the printing menu on both Macintosh and Windows computers. To conserve paper, do not print out PowerPoint presentations with less than three slides per page.
• Print drafts out double-sided. Many printers on-campus can print on both sides of a sheet of paper. This option is available under the printing menu on both Macintosh and Windows computers.
• Use scrap paper. Paper that has already been printed on is not suitable for use in the printers again. Use the back side of printed paper to take notes or write messages.