In a key finding released by Singapore Compact for CSR, there has been a 25-per-cent increase in the number of Singapore Exchange (SGX) Mainboard-listed companies
engaging in sustainability reporting in 2011 compared to the previous year.
The Fuji Xerox Eco-Print Dashboard not only showcases Fuji Xerox’s multi-function device data, but it further provides tips, advice, case studies on how businesses
can better supervise office device systems and workflow to attain financial and environmental benefits.
2. In a key finding released by Singapore Compact for CSR, there has been a 25-per-cent
increase in the number of Singapore Exchange (SGX) Mainboard-listed companies
engaging in sustainability reporting in 2011 compared to the previous year.
The Fuji Xerox Eco-Print Dashboard not only showcases Fuji Xerox’s multi-function
device data, but it further provides tips, advice, case studies on how businesses
can better supervise office device systems and workflow to attain financial and
environmental benefits.
The Reality of Your Office
Print Environment
Printing is an everyday, taken for granted
business operation.
Whilst we do not advocate a world without
printing (that would just not be possible), it
is important to recognize the need to control
consumption. The trick is not to stop printing
but to print responsibly.
Market research firm, InfoTrends report that
businesses continue to print, copy and fax
more than a trillion pages of office paper
each year1
. The paperless office is far from
becoming a reality as most businesses
continue to rely on paper documents for
contractual and legal reasons, physically
archiving these important documents at the
same time.
Your Company’s
Green Report Card
So what can be done to ensure we optimize
our printing practices to reduce the wastage
of paper in the office?
In 2011, Fuji Xerox introduced the Electronic
Partnership Broadband (EP-BB) service, a
proactive service that monitors faults and
consumables to help minimize the downtime
of machines.
It also provides usage and eco reports for
centralized control and visibility of multi-
function devices (MFDs) carbon output,
power consumption and paper usage.
This data is essential to providing insights
to each individual company’s print
environment.
Eco-Print Dashboard
Organisations large and small strive to
drive efficiency, lower operating costs and
reduction in the usage and wastage of office
consumables.
Leveraging on the EP-BB platform, Fuji Xerox
has developed the Eco-Print Dashboard,
a system that customers can use to gauge
their print related eco-performance. This
helps them make result-oriented decisions,
supported by eco-print advice from Fuji
Xerox experts.
The Fuji Xerox Eco-Print dashboard
aggregates the data collected from the
EP-BB green report. Using the Eco-print
dashboard not only allows users to view
monthly paper and electricity consumption
within their company, but to also directly
compare consumption against industry
average data based on peer companies
of similar size.
On top of that, trending capabilities in
the Eco-Print Dashboard allows customers
to compare their current and past print
behaviors against industry averages over
time. This provides long term visibility of
their position among their peers and serves
as a reference point to enhance eco-print
efforts and goal setting in a targeted
manner.
Eco-print Dashboard
The dashboard provides the first
trend analysis in the country that
polls actual data of the paper and
electricity consumed by Fuji Xerox
printing devices and measures your
print efficiency in the office vs the
industry average. The objective
is to provide transparency and let
Fuji Xerox customers have a way to
benchmark their own performance
over a 12-month period and to
manage it. This allows for active
management with new company-
centric print management initiatives.
Benchmarking against an industry
average would also be the next
logical step in eco-management.
Data supporting the underlying print
efficiency is also provided. Print efficiency
is calculated by measuring pages printed
over sheets of paper used. The higher the
ratio means that each single sheet of paper
is being efficiently used by printing on both
sides using duplex or multi-up printing.
Experts’ Views
Having the consumption and industry
average data is but half of the story. How
can your organization lower consumption
levels further? What processes and initiatives
can be introduced to further reduced power
and paper usage?
Signing Up
To get access to the Fuji Xerox Eco-Print
Dashboard, simply sign up for EP-BB.
More details of signing up can be found
on http://fujixerox-epbb.com/
Embedded in the dashboard are the experts’
views, tips, case studies and other tools.
The dashboard further connects you with
Fuji Xerox in-house and industry experts in
sustainability, environmental practices and
green office solutions to answer questions
that customers post online.
Driving Innovation, Efficiency
and Cost-savings in Print
The Eco-Print dashboard is designed to
help our customers achieve not just energy
savings but more importantly to provide our
customers with the know-how to right print
practices that are beneficial to them.
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CNN Tech “Is the ‘paperless’ office here at last? March 18, 2010