Defeating the Desktop Menace

"We've found agencies with 500 to 600 employees going through 14 to 15 pounds of paper every two months on walk-up copiers and printers," Tucker adds. "It's a tremendous waste."

It's a boon, though, for makers of ink-jet and laser printers. Hewlett-Packard, for example, is reporting record profits thanks to the desktop printers and supplies it sells.