Johannesburg, Tuesday 3 June 2008. HP recently unveiled a broad effort to help make it easy for customers to reduce the environmental impact of their imaging and printing.
Targeting customers spanning individual consumers to large businesses, the wide-ranging initiative includes elements such as:
• an enterprise printing assessment service and a carbon calculator that together comprehensively address energy and paper use, related carbon emissions and projected cost savings for optimised printing environments;
• a global paper policy governing the sustainable manufacture and use of paper HP sells to customers and uses for packaging, collateral and its own office printing;
• a new HP inkjet printer made almost entirely from recycled materials; and,
• an HP Eco Highlights label that will help customers identify environmental attributes of a given HP product or service.
Many of the announcements are part of the new HP Eco Solutions program, which helps customers identify HP initiatives, products and services designed with the environment in mind.
“HP is focused on helping all of our customers – from consumers to enterprises – reduce their environmental impact,” said Thierry Boulanger, Country Manager Imaging and Printing Group, HP.
Furthering its commitment to environmental responsibility in the area of imaging and printing, HP also pledged to:
• improve the overall energy efficiency of its ink and laser printing products by 40 percent(1) by 2011;
• increase the amount of recycled materials used in its inkjet printers by three times by 2010 (relative to 2007);
• quadruple the number of HP Halo Collaboration Studios at company sites worldwide by 2009, resulting in an expected reduction of more than 20,000 trips and millions of dollars saved in travel annually; and,
• surpass 250 million cumulative HP inkjet and LaserJet cartridges recycled in 2008, helping the company reach its goal of recovering 2 billion pounds of computing and printing equipment by 2010.
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HP and the environment
For decades HP has been an environmental leader, driving company stewardship through its holistic design for environment strategy. HP influences industry action through its long-standing commitment to maintain supply chain responsibility, sustain energy efficient operations, reduce its climate impact and offer product reuse and recycling options. HP also makes it easier for customers to recognize environmentally preferable features through HP Eco Solutions, a program that helps customers identify products and services designed with the environment in mind. More information is available at www.hp.com/environment.
About HP
HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers – from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world’s largest IT companies, with revenue totalling $110.4 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2008. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.
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(1) Average energy efficiency per unit shipped for 2005 using industry-standard measurement benchmarks. Efficiency is defined in terms of kilowatt hours (using the Total Electricity Consumption Method)/pages per minute. These families represent more than 32 percent of HP inkjet printers and more than 45 percent of HP LaserJet printers shipped in 2005.
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