Conservative to use printing paper
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Just curious to know how many of us are conservative about using printing papers ? I noticed in last one year I hardly use one pack of printer paper.I try to avoid printing paper as much as I can. I even reuse the margin of printed paper to do some note taking or calculation to make sure I don't waste it. Whenever I print something I feel guilt of cutting down more trees. Am I being too conservative to use paper ?
I go through a ream or two a day at work, perhaps a quarter of that at home. Reading and understanding 1000 page technical documents on a computer screen is something I find impossible to do. Of course I print all emails, in case I forget where I left them in my inbox. And I print all the spam I get before I delete it, just in case I might one day need Viagra or a Russian bride. Where I really score highly is in printing my own designs - D and E size prints of electrical substation construction drawings, transmission line plans and profiles, topographical maps, grading plans, sewer lift station drawings, water line and well details, control building plans and control system electrical and mechanical designs - why, one good sized project can level a smallish deciduous forest! Environmental, biological, and cultural site assessments - all required by Federal law - consume even more, and copies must be distributed to about 30 different offices (with multiple copies). Have you ever seen an Environmental Assessment Report (the baby brother of the Environmental Impact Statement)? Those can easily reach a few hundred pages for a simple project. Then there are the required paper reports for every water sample, taken weekly from dozens of sites, that have to be sent to the US EPA and AZ Dept of Environmental Quality. Can't forget those... By the time I retire I fully expect to completely denude the state of Maine and turn it into a pristine grassland. So go ahead and print to your heart's desire; it won't be noticed. I might even leave you a tree or two in Maine.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yep, once he reached that age, he attained everything he could ever dream of... an entire world of legal alcohol. So it was no use counting anymore. :)
He must have been a bit slow, then. It's 18 in the UK.
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Yep, once he reached that age, he attained everything he could ever dream of... an entire world of legal alcohol. So it was no use counting anymore. :)
I was thinking more along the lines of available, accessible appendages for keeping track of his sums.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I was thinking more along the lines of available, accessible appendages for keeping track of his sums.
Will Rogers never met me.
Ah! Did not need that mental picture*! :laugh: *Of DD counting with his fingers, toes, and tongue.
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Just curious to know how many of us are conservative about using printing papers ? I noticed in last one year I hardly use one pack of printer paper.I try to avoid printing paper as much as I can. I even reuse the margin of printed paper to do some note taking or calculation to make sure I don't waste it. Whenever I print something I feel guilt of cutting down more trees. Am I being too conservative to use paper ?
JOKE PART Well, definitely you are: I have a script that automatically prints all the e-mails that I receive. In that way I have our secretaries fully employed on organizing papers and putting coloured post-its to them. Also, some other secretaries are always making copies of ALL the documents and in that way I have replaced the expensive backup solutions out there: I have seen that a scanner armed with OCR can do it wonderfully... You should see the secretaries looking for the right post-it note when they have to recover one document... Ah... the joy of paper... SERIOUS PART I even don't have drawers in my office... so I don't use paper... only when we print some product manuals...
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You should use more. Some trees are grown specifically for processing into paper. If nobody uses paper, their very existence will have been in vain. They will become depressed and as a result will become more susceptible to diseases. Living so close to each other, as they do, these diseases will spread extremely rapidly, decimating entire forests. All because you were too frugal in your use of paper. You should be ashamed of yourself! :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Just curious to know how many of us are conservative about using printing papers ? I noticed in last one year I hardly use one pack of printer paper.I try to avoid printing paper as much as I can. I even reuse the margin of printed paper to do some note taking or calculation to make sure I don't waste it. Whenever I print something I feel guilt of cutting down more trees. Am I being too conservative to use paper ?
I don't even have a printer, I occasionally print stuff to PDF though. It's very rare that I ever need to print anything outside of work, maybe once every 3 years or so? On those occasions I use someone elses.
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You should use more. Some trees are grown specifically for processing into paper. If nobody uses paper, their very existence will have been in vain. They will become depressed and as a result will become more susceptible to diseases. Living so close to each other, as they do, these diseases will spread extremely rapidly, decimating entire forests. All because you were too frugal in your use of paper. You should be ashamed of yourself! :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Me..Duplex. Two pages per sheet. Save paper that has a blank side for scratch work with pen. I print a heck of a lot of articles from cp actually which comprises the largest plurality of my printing.
puromtec1 wrote:
plurality
"Proportion"?
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I was thinking more along the lines of available, accessible appendages for keeping track of his sums.
Will Rogers never met me.
Why did you think of nose and forgot the ears? :rolleyes:
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Those evil little squirrels with their twitchy little noses! :mad:
Ali
I've just realized. Are you on the night shift, or what?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I've just realized. Are you on the night shift, or what?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I know! Woke up early! :rolleyes: I was worried about your Wotsits really! :-D
Ali
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puromtec1 wrote:
plurality
"Proportion"?
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I know! Woke up early! :rolleyes: I was worried about your Wotsits really! :-D
Ali
Alison P wrote:
I was worried about your Wotsits really!
They were nice and warm and cosy at that time. I look forward to your continued support though.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Alison P wrote:
I was worried about your Wotsits really!
They were nice and warm and cosy at that time. I look forward to your continued support though.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Henry Minute wrote:
They were nice and warm and cosy at that time.
Right where they should be ..... :) :thumbsup:
Ali
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Why did you think of nose and forgot the ears? :rolleyes:
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | WhoIncludes - Analyzing C++ include file hierarchyHmmm... I have no idea how I missed that possibility. ;)
Will Rogers never met me.
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Not sure where you live, the part of the California that I live in, most of the houses are build like that. The only thing non-wood is the fireplace.
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Not sure where you live, the part of the California that I live in, most of the houses are build like that. The only thing non-wood is the fireplace.
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But wood is flimsy, it burns, and you can hear the people walking on the floor above you. It also smells funny. But most importantly, it's flimsy.
yes, it burns very well. That is whey whenever a house burns only thing that remains is the fireplace that looks like someone is showing a middle finger. Yes sound is a problem but a well constructed wood house might not have it but that is rare unless you are ready to spend big dollars. No smell problem, the wood is painted quite well. Flimsy?
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Hmmm... I have no idea how I missed that possibility. ;)
Will Rogers never met me.
A shapely redhead with huge... ears did distract you?
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