Pointless printouts lay waste to profit

The organisation has identified five types of print junkie, including "old school" printers who feel they cannot deal with email requests without printing a hard copy, and "competitive" printers who believe the more paper they have on their desks the more important they look. "Trigger happy" staff who fail to check the number of pages in lengthy documents not only cause queues of frustrated colleagues at the printer but also contribute to the failure of the "paperless office" dream and are cost-ing companies dear. 4% is an average but the research found some manu-facturing companies can save as much as 10% of their turnover by reducing paper wastage. A typical office worker prints 22 pages of paper every day, according to the organisation, many of which may be documents and messages that do not need to be printed out and are needlessly adding to mountains of waste.