GreenPrint is designed to save you money and help the environment by preventing waste pages from being printed. GreenPrint analyzes the content of each print job for pages that have wasteful characteristics. These are the pages with just a banner ad, URL footnote etc. It also allows you to very quickly add and remove pages from your print job, without having to return to the original application.

After installation you will notice that you have a new printer called GreenPrint, this will automatically become the default printer. To use GreenPrint simply print the document as usual using GreenPrint as your printer. If for any reason you want to bypass the GreenPrint filter, and print directly to the printer, you can simply select your desired printer in the application from which you are printing.

Once you click print GreenPrint will analyze the document, and display it as it will be printed. If GreenPrint detects any unnecessary pages, it will highlight them in red and they will not be printed. If you want to print a page that has been detected as unnecessary, simply double click on the red page and it will be included in the document. If you wish to remove a page that is currently included in the document, you can double click on it, and it will be turned red and not printed. (Alternatively you can right click on the page to include or remove it.)

By default GreenPrint will display all your pages on screen at once, allowing you to rapidly see any wasteful pages in the document. You can change the view by clicking the view buttons in the toolbar.

Once you have confirmed which pages you want to print, click Print, on the button bar.

You can choose which printer the document will go to using the drop down dialog at the right end of the button bar.

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If you want to remove the images from a page to save ink, you can simply right click on the page and select Remove Images. You can remove all images from a document by using the Tools -> Remove All Images command.

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You can create a PDF file of the document simply by clicking on the PDF button on the GreenPrint Toolbar.

You will then be prompted to choose a location where you would like to save the file.

GreenPrint does not have a PDF viewing feature. To view PDF files you will need to download the free Adobe Acrobat from www.adobe.com .

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You can customize many aspects of GreenPrint through the GreenPrint configuration window. You can launch the configuration tool from the Start Menu -> All Programs -> GreenPrint -> GreenPrint Configuration or from the GreenPrint preview window by selecting Tools -> GreenPrint Configuration.

The GreenPrint Preview Tab lets you set when you want the preview to appear. You can have it only appear when GreenPrint detects waste, every time you print, or simply display a warning when GreenPrint has detected waste in your print job.

The GreenPrint Logic Tab allows you to tailor the filters that detect unnecessary pages.

The Printers Tab allows you to select the default printer to which GreenPrint sends print jobs. In the Enterprise version it allows you to designate a printer for using recycled paper.

The Reports Tab allows you to set the cost of printing on a per printer basis.

You can set the cost of each piece of paper saved and the average cost of ink per page. Enterprise users can also set the details of a central network reporting server that will collate the results from all network print users.

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GreenPrint Crashes on install: GreenPrint requires the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework, which can be downloaded from Microsoft here.

Flash Performance Issue: In pages with large flash elements the time to preview can take longer than expected. (This is due to the conversion of the swf to bmp then to PS). We are aware of this issue and are working hard to reduce the time taken.

The Logitech QuickCam causes GP errors: The Logitech QuickCam has a DLL file which interferes with GreenPrint and can cause error messages. The issue may be fixed by renaming the file C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logitech\LVMVFM\LVPrcInj.dll to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logitech\LVMVFM\LVPrcInj.dll.old.

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