Save Money with Adobe Lean Print

With the increasing cost of life, everyone is trying hard for cost cutting, whether it is an individual or an organisation.  As a person, you may not be a heavy user of a printer, but daily thousands of papers are getting printed in office. Many of these print-outs are just for temporary purpose e.g. to distribute as hand-outs or just utilised as use and throw. Adobe has come out with an innovative idea “lean print”, where you can cut off much of your printing cost while you print such materials.

How does Lean Print Work

Lean print works on different areas to cut down the printing cost. It works with Microsoft Office, Adobe acrobat and all major browsers. Adobe lean print works in two different modes i.e. Toner Saver and Super Saver. The toner saver prints in original format and only saves toner. In the toner saver mode, it optimizes the colour e.g. colour of the graph and saves the toner. Whereas, the super saver mode prints in optimized layout and saves both paper and the toner. The super saver mode may reformat your content in multi-column format without compromising the readability of the content and optimized the space required for printing.  It may also change the font for an optimized printing.

With web pages, Lean Print is very effective. Its intelligent system can identify the original content that is required to be printed and gets rid of banner, menu, advertisement in the sidebar etc. If there are multiple articles, it can detect that as well and print only the content in interest. As an illustration, if you normally print the home page of universal-post.com, it comes as below.

However, if you print it using Lean Print (see below), the print comes as below. It also shows that the lean print saves closely 3 pages and 87% of the toner. The saving is equivalent to $0.48.

Overall, the Lean Print is a great innovation and an excellent tool to save money and more importantly a way to save trees by saving paper and toner.

Lean Print is available in three modes i.e. Enterprise Edition, Small Business Edition, Individual Edition. You can download the free trial version from Adobe website.  The Lean print tool also provides a dashboard, which helps you to track your savings.

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