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Learn how you can print more efficiently and reduce waste with shopping tips, printing practices, and programs from HP. |
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Determine your current carbon footprint |
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| The HP Carbon Footprint Calculator for printing lets you compare the energy efficiency of HP printers and competitive products. |
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Before you can begin to print more responsibly, it’s helpful to know what impact your current printing habits have on the environment.
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HP Carbon Footprint Calculator for printing is a free online tool that evaluates your current printing system and suggests steps you can take to reduce your power consumption, energy costs, and paper expenses.
You’ll be amazed by the difference a few simple changes, such as powering off daily or installing a universal print driver, will make in your carbon footprint—and your energy bills!
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Reduce your printing carbon footprint with help from HP |
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| Check the Eco Highlights label for important, environmentally relevant information on the HP products you buy. |
| Look for the ENERGY STAR® logo to ensure your product is ENERGY STAR® qualified. |
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If you’re thinking of replacing a printer, either to update your features or to improve your energy profile, use helpful tools from HP to help you make an environmentally thoughtful choice:
- Look for the Eco Highlights label
HP’s Eco Highlights label makes it easy to select a product with key environmental attributes. Simple, straightforward, and easy to read, the HP Eco Highlights label often gives information about how products were designed, packaged, manufactured, and shipped—additional factors to consider when making a product choice.
Check out
HP printers with HP Eco Highlights information to find one that fits your needs.
- Choose ENERGY STAR® qualified products
One of the primary features to look for on an Eco Highlights label is whether or not a product is
ENERGY STAR® qualified, meeting rigorous energy efficiency standards set by the EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Consider factors beyond a product’s energy use |
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The HP Eco Highlights label often gives information about how products were designed, packaged, manufactured, and shipped—additional factors to consider when trying to make an ecologically conscious product choice.
- Purchase products with environmentally conscious packaging
Check the HP Eco Highlights label of an HP product to see if it’s packaged in recyclable materials, rather than bulky waste destined for the landfill.
- Consider the product’s engineering
HP realizes that a product impacts the environment long before you purchase it. That’s why HP’s company-wide Design for Environment Program (DfE) aims to:
- Reduce the energy needed to manufacture and use HP products
- Develop materials that have less environmental impact and more value at end-of-life
- Design equipment that is easier to upgrade and recycle
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HP Eco Highlights label for details on the amount of recycled materials used to make your HP product.
- Choose products transported by SmartWay
A collaboration between the EPA and the freight industry, SmartWay Transport aims to ship and deliver materials in the most sustainable way possible, improving energy efficiency, reducing fuel consumption, and lowering greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions.
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| Using HP inks ensures long-lasting, quality results. |
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Once you’ve chosen a printer that meets your printing and environmental needs, there are ways to use your equipment more efficiently, too:
- Use HP original inkjet print cartridges
In a recent independent test by QualityLogic, HP original inkjet print cartridges printed an average of 65% more pages than bargain ink cartridges*. Long-lasting ink means less cartridge waste for the environment and more value for you.
- HP Smart Web Printing is a free, downloadable program that lets you select, store, and organize text and graphics from multiple Web pages, then crop, resize, or delete content you don’t need. You print exactly what you see onscreen, saving ink and paper, and reducing waste.
- Double-sided printing can reduce your paper usage by up to half. Learn how to Print two-sided automatically.
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Recycle your used supplies, printers, and other hardware |
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HP is working to facilitate more responsible use of resources throughout a product’s lifecycle, all the way through the end, offering recycling options for supplies, such as ink and toner cartridges, and the printers themselves (even those made by other companies!).
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The HP Trade-In Program lets you exchange your old hardware for credit towards your next HP purchase. Trade in any product of any brand!
- The HP Planet Partners Recycling Program allows you to recycle used ink and toner cartridges with ease. Check out this article to learn more about how to
Recycle your printer supplies.
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Find HP printers designed with the environment in mind |
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Below, you’ll find a variety of HP printers and All-in-Ones with
Eco Highlights features that will help you print responsibly.
For more printers and All-in-Ones from HP, visit the
Buying Guides for HP Printers, and check out the comparison charts to see which models are ENERGY STAR® qualified and feature duplexing.
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$149.99
HP Officejet 6500 All-in-One
- HP All-in-Ones give you the performance and efficiency of four machines in one
- ENERGY STAR® qualified
- Automatic document feeder and Ethernet networking
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$99.99
HP Officejet Pro 8000 series
- ENERGY STAR® qualified
- Individual ink tanks let you replace only the ink you need
- High-speed, laser-quality text and professional color output
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*Based on 2009 Quality Logic Inc. study commissioned by HP. |
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![Eco highlights label with SmartWay info]](/hho/images/EP_print_green_6.jpg)
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