Paper-less Tigers

I was impressed to see Dennis Howlett mention in this post he has been paperless for 3 years. I had a manager at Gartner, Dave Taylor who had disciplined himself to electronic documents 10 years ago!

I admire such folks. In an on-going crusade against the cost of printer ink, I wish I could do as well as them, but I must admit when I review legal and other negotiation documents for my clients I like to spread the pages around so I can see patterns easier, and go back and forth across pages quicker. It also makes airplane reviews easier.

My solution has been to lower the cost of print. My friend there has been a tireless Brother HL-1440 laser which has over 4 years yielded 6,000 copies (at 5% coverage) for each $ 60 high-yield cartridge and needs a drum every 20,000 copies for around $ 100.  I also tend to print 2 pages on one piece of paper - what the heck, the PDA has even smaller fonts.

It will be a sad day when the Brother finally dies of exhaustion - as it almost did when it started acting up a couple of weeks ago, but my interpid wife found a workaround to keep it going.

Now, if I can only get her to slow down her use of the color HP2605 for brochures and other stuff for her business. That thing requires 4 cartridges that cost about $ 300, and each has a yield of only 2,000 pages (the black one does somewhat better at 2,500 pages).

I even offered to call her a Paper-less Tigress, and she just growled :)