The University of Colorado at Boulder Imaging Services strives to become a “Sustainable Campus Printer”

By Bob Neubauer

The copy center was repainted with environmentally friendly (green) paint. The shop uses only recycled paper. And most importantly, the in-plant recently replaced two Xerox printers with a pair of Océ VarioPrint 2110s, which are reportedly more environmentally friendly than other major brands.

“They use 47 percent less energy than anybody else out there,” Tozier contends, noting that this was shown in third-party tests. To market this fact, he converted the copiers’ annual power usage into CO2 emissions and created a chart showing how much less CO2 the in-plant’s copiers produce than other copiers. He even showed the CO2 emissions from a Ford Explorer, a Toyota Prius and a flight to Amsterdam, for comparison’s sake.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

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