Lexmark E460dw, E462dtn Minimizing your printer's environmental impact

Minimizing your printer's environmentalimpact

Lexmark is committed to environ mental sustainabili ty and is conti nually improving it s printers to red uce their impact

on the environment. We design with the environment in mind, engineer our packaging to reduce materials, and

provide collection and recycling program s. For more information, see:

•The Notices chapter

•The Environmental Sustainability section of the Lexmark Web site at www.lexmark.com/ environment

•The Lexmark recycling program at www.lexmark.com/recycle

By selecting certain printer settings or tasks, you may be able to reduce your printer's impact even further. This chapter

outlines the settings and tasks that may yield a greater environmental benefit.

Studies show that as much as 80% of the carbon footprint of a printer is related to paper usage. You can significantly

reduce your carbon footprint by using recycled pape r and the following printing suggestions, s uch as printing on

both sides of the paper and printing multiple pages on one side of a single sheet of paper.

For information on how you can qu ickly save paper and energy u sing one printer setting, see "U sing Eco-Mode".

As an environmentally conscious company, Lexmar k supports the use of recycled office pape r produced specifically

for use in laser printers. For more in formation on recycl ed papers that work well w ith your printer, see “Using recycled

paper and other office papers ” on page 59.

There are a number of ways you can reduce the amou nt of paper and toner you use when print ing. You can:

If your printer model supports duplex printing, then you can control whether print appea rs on one or two sides of

the paper by selecting 2-sided printin g from the Print dialog or the Lexmark Toolbar.

You can print up to 16 consecutive pages of a multiple-page document onto one side of a single sheet of paper by

selecting a setting from the Multipage printing (N-Up) section of the Print dialog screen .

Before printing or making multiple copies of a document:

•Use the preview feature, which you can select from the Print dialog or the Lexmark Toolbar, to see what the

document will look like before you print it.

•Print one copy of the document to check its content and format for accuracy.

Minimizing your printer's environmental impact