I make a point of not printing anything unless it’s really necessary – I don’t like using the paper, or the ink.
Today I needed to print out several pages for an online class I’m taking – and I was reminded again of the value of a software program I’ve been using for many years. It’s FinePrint, and if you do much printing at all this one can save money for you.
How many times have you printed something from the web, only to find that the last page has no information on it but maybe one line of print at the top with the web address, or something similar?
Or what about those times where you have several different things to print, each of which only takes up a few lines on a sheet?
How about when you’re web surfing, find something you want to print, then just a few mouse clicks later find something that suits what you were looking for better, so you want to print that too – now you’ve used several pages for nothing!
These instances and more are where FinePrint comes in handy. Now I just realized it sounds like I’m doing a commercial for this product, but really it’s a good product and it will save you money. The document I just printed this morning started out being 42 pages, and after I went through it and eliminated unnecessary pages with FinePrint, I wound up printing only 36 pages. Now I think that’s a pretty significant savings.
A license for FP is not cheap; it’s $49.95, but – there is a free trial version you can use as long as you want and it’s fully functional. The only drawback to the trial is that whenever you print something there is a line across the bottom of the page announcing that the page was printed with the trial version. If all you’re printing is something for your own personal use, who cares if it’s announced at the bottom?
And if you do care, you can get the license and remove the line; I think it would easily pay for itself with the savings you get. Take a look and give it a try. Find it at fineprint.com
