CcPrint & CcMail for Microsoft Exchange

CcPrint is a print capture product which intercepts printed output on the way to a printer, renders it to an image and automatically stores it in the document management system. The product can be configured in numerous ways and is capable to extracting information from the printed material and using that information to index the document. It is also capable of processing forms and extracting information from them.

CcMail for Microsoft Exchange is an email capture product which intercepts emails as they are sent or received and indexes them in to the document management system according to a user-defined set of rules which control the inclusion or exclusion of each email and how it is stored. Requires IMAP4 enabled Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later.

Good Green IT Reading

You may not know that the IT industry is currently responsible for the same level of carbon emissions as the aviation industry, and experts predict that these emissions will actually double in the next few years. This is some great reading on the wider issues of why we should green IT (and the related printing output)

Green Computing and Green IT Best Practices on Regulations and Industry Initiatives, Virtualization, Power Management, Materials Recycling and Telecommuting

Green IT For Dummies

Green IT in Practice: How One Company Is Approaching the Greening of Its IT

Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line

Green IT for Sustainable Business Practice: An ISEB Foundation Guide

How Paperless Home Offices Work

Inside this Article

1. Introduction to How Paperless Home Offices Work
2. Going Paperless
3. Paperless Technology

4. Paperless Document Management

http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-paperless-home-offices-work.htm

BUSINESS GUIDE TO PAPER REDUCTION

Lots of information and guidance on how to reduce paper and printing in this 67 page guide by the ForestEthics, published in in the USA in 2002

BUSINESS GUIDE TO PAPER REDUCTION

A Step-by-Step Plan to Save Money by Saving Paper

Including Case Studies of Bank of America, AT&T, Nike, Alameda County, and the Moore Foundation

Heather Sarantis

September 2002

http://www.environmentalpaper.org/documents/REDUCE-BUSINESS-GUIDE.pdf

Minimising the Environmental Impacts of Printing Workshop at UEL

Minimising the Environmental Impacts of Printing Workshop at UEL.

Nicola Hogan Sustainable ICT Project Manager, Environmental Association for Universities & Colleges (EAUC) said “ A special thank you to each of our speakers for their informative presentations and especially to Sara Kassam for hosting the workshop at UEL's Dockland's campus.”

Nicola Hogan has posted the presentations on the EAUC's website (see following link) so please feel free to visit the website anytime as a source of information for reducing paper use at your institution; http://www.eauc.org.uk/shop/mms_single_event.php?event_id=1254

Please log onto the EAUC's website for more updates on the sustainable ICT project.