Guest Blogger — Green Your Printing & Save Green

While my nearly-paperless office uses a high-quality inkjet for my small print­ing needs, I have friends who rou­tinely spend hun­dreds of dol­lars for new laser toner car­tridges. Sure, the out­put may be mea­sured in thou­sands (or tens of thou­sands) of pages, but the cost of the car­tridges is.…well, steep!

It’s steep for the earth as well…where roughly three ounces of petro­leum are used to make an inkjet car­tridge, it takes nearly a gal­lon to make a laser­jet car­tridge. And when you con­sider the man­u­fac­tur­ers’ warn­ings of the risks of buy­ing refilled car­tridges, you can feel you’re locked into buy­ing new each time.

So when Kevin Hedge of  KEH Con­sult­ing intro­duced him­self to me and said that he offers a way to save up to 70% on car­tridge expenses, with no loss in print qual­ity, no printer risks, and major ben­e­fits to the envi­ron­ment, I knew that this was a mes­sage to share.….….…

So here’s his arti­cle as our sec­ond guest blogger!

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Save the Earth AND Up to 70%  of  Print­ing Costs With Reman­u­fac­tured Toner Car­tridges

When you start green­ing your home and office, you’re likely to begin notic­ing a great side ben­e­fit – that sav­ing the earth and sav­ing money come wrapped in the same eco-savvy package.

Reman­u­fac­tured toner car­tridges are one remark­able exam­ple. Since newer toner car­tridges typ­i­cally last longer and have more durable con­struc­tion and elec­tronic com­po­nents, you can reuse them up to 12 times before reach­ing the end of their func­tional lives.  As each laser jet car­tridge rep­re­sents three quarts of petro­leum, you’re sav­ing a total of nine gal­lons of oil over the lifes­pan of the cartridge.

But it gets even bet­ter. Some com­pa­nies now offer reman­u­fac­tured car­tridges at a sig­nif­i­cant sav­ings (20–70%) over orig­i­nal equip­ment man­u­fac­turer (OEM) prod­ucts.  If they’re sell­ing a qual­ity prod­uct, you can reap huge envi­ron­men­tal and cost sav­ings ben­e­fits from buy­ing these products.

Prob­lem is, when­ever a hot new tech­nol­ogy comes along, you’ll also find unscrupu­lous indi­vid­u­als or com­pa­nies that offer sub-standard or poor qual­ity prod­ucts that can cost you more in the long run.

How can you tell if a reman­u­fac­turer is on the level?  Here are a few ques­tions to help you find out.

1.       How do your car­tridges com­pare to orig­i­nal equipment?

2.       How many fail­ures or returns have you had for the par­tic­u­lar product?

3.       What is your return pol­icy if there is a problem?

4.       What do you do to reman­u­fac­ture the toners?

5.       What qual­ity assur­ance and qual­ity con­trol mea­sures do you have in place?

6.       Are the elec­tron­ics and car­tridge parts replaced every time?

7.       Always ask for ref­er­ences of cus­tomers who have used the product.

There are many exam­ples of “green­wash­ing” com­pa­nies that claim to be green, but don’t walk the walk.  Here are a few ques­tions to find out if they are as green as they say they are:

1.       What hap­pens to the parts when they are removed?

2.       What hap­pens to the car­tridges when they can­not be used any longer?

3.       What kind of pack­ag­ing do you use for send­ing cartridges?

4.       How do I return the old car­tridge to you?

5.       Can you track lbs of waste diverted from the land­fill for me?

6.       Can you track how much oil has been saved in a year?

7.       How do you han­dle the toner that might remain in the cartridge?

Sim­ply ask­ing a few ques­tions such as these will allow you to get a feel­ing whether or not the com­pany is rep­utable and what they are say­ing is true.  Once you have vet­ted the com­pany and/or prod­ucts, here are a few of the envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits you may be able to enjoy.

• Every toner car­tridge reman­u­fac­tured and reused saves nearly a gal­lon of oil and reduces your car­bon footprint
• Reman­u­fac­tured car­tridges are diverted from the waste stream and do not wind up in landfills.
• Waste track­ing and reduc­tion save you money and pre­vent envi­ron­men­tal harm
• Eth­i­cal reman­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies prac­tice envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­ity in every stage of the product’s life

If you are inter­ested in learn­ing more about green­ing your busi­ness and opti­miz­ing envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits, feel free to con­tact Kevin Hedge of KEH Con­sult­ing at kevin@keh-enviro.com or 410–203-2270.  KEH Con­sult­ing is proud to offer Print­er­Green toner car­tridges at 20–70% sav­ings over orig­i­nal car­tridge pric­ing.  Con­tact KEH today to get started!

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