{"id":46523,"date":"2013-11-11T22:52:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T22:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=46523"},"modified":"2013-11-11T22:52:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T22:52:17","slug":"alternatives-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/alternatives-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h4>Alternatives to Printing<\/h4>\n<p>By Bob Rankin<\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">Save money, save paper and stop printing.&#8211;PC Pitstop<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>How often do you use your home printer? If it\u2019s more than just occasionally, I&#8217;ve got some tips to simplify your life and save you money. Aside from wasting paper, killing trees unnecessarily, and spending more than $300 a gallon on printer ink, you&#8217;re also creating a stack of pages that you&#8217;ll have to do something with. Here are some ways to minimize those hard copies, as well as the associated filing, and tedious searching tasks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Put Down that Cartridge and Back Away Slowly From the Printer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Printing is a habit, and it can be a costly one. We print documents, emails, bills, receipts, photos and other types of files. All of these things come to us in digital form, so the trick is to realize that converting them to paper just makes it harder to manage and find them later.<\/p>\n<p>Many things are printed for record-keeping purposes. But the best record-keeper available may be your email server. Instead of printing a Word document or PDF, email a copy to yourself, and Gmail (or whatever email service you use) will keep it safe forever. You can also find it again with simple search, or tag it with keywords so that you can easily find all documents that relate to a given topic. If you use webmail, you have the added benefit that your important documents are stored online, and won&#8217;t be lost if your hard drive fails.<\/p>\n<p>Bills, receipts, monthly statements, correspondence, jokes and pictures of cute puppies will flow into your inbox. Let them stay there! Printing these things is old-school thinking, and ultimately makes it harder to find the information at a later date.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/askbobrankin.com\/save_time_and_money_with_alternatives_to_printing.html?pcp\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Excerpt shared with permission from Bob Rankin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stop-printing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"stop-printing\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-46527\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Save money, save paper and stop printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2070],"class_list":["post-46523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bob-rankin","tag-printing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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