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September 19, 2006

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GreenPrint, Xerox Solid Ink Printers get together

Two companies I've blogged about this year have come together in a partnership that apparently is designed to help Xerox owners print less! Buyers of Xerox's Phaser 8560 and 8860 printer/all-in-one solid ink jet color products will be entitled to a free download of the popular GreenPrint software, which actually makes perfect sense combined with the strong Xerox (NYSE XRX) "Green" message. It's been quite a year for Portland-based start-up GreenPrint (see "Making it to the Top of the PR Mountain" ), and Xerox has been getting a lot of "ink" as well (see "Note to Xerox: You got HP's attention" .)

GreenPrint introduces TreeMail

In honor of this year's Earth Day, GreenPrint has announced (see iPaper window below) "TreeMail" , a series of signatures for emails that are designed to convince readers to think twice before printing. Readers may recall last month's post about a similar email signature message I'd been seeing. (See "Please Consider the Environment" .) GreenPrint has gone an interesting step further with a tracking/linking connection, at least for users of Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, and Yahoo Mail. Read this doc on Scribd: Treemail Press Release 4 21 08

Observations: Printing Less While Printing More

by Jim Lyons The Hard Copy Observer , March 2007 In last month’s column, I highlighted the early and fast success of burgeoning printing software company GreenPrint and its product GreenPrint. (Reminds me a bit of the rock-and-roll groups of my youth, which typically debuted a self-titled album first—for example, Santana by Santana—and then came up with a more creative name for the next album.) As noted in my monthly column, I am fascinated by any company in any industry, big or small, that identifies an unmet user need or customer pain point and then develops a product or solution to address that need. GreenPrint’s discovery was the wasteful printing of extra, nearly blank Web pages, something that has been accepted for too long among the printing user community. This issue is one that neither hardware nor software vendors have managed to address satisfactorily but that GreenPrint’s software utility aptly takes on. A broader but related issue that has long been a sore point for custo

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