1. Minimising the Environmental Impacts of Printing Driving sustainability to improve IT skills, pedagogic quality and reduce costs Alan Lee Document & Copyright Services Manager Centre for Learning Support & Development 020 7815 7840 – leear@lsbu.ac.uk

2. About LSBU LSBU - 22 buildings, 3 campuses, 2,000 staff & 23,000 students 50,000,000 prints per year (inc. marketing) Print = 3% turnover = £5 million pa One print room in Southwark (M2Digital) 170 multifunctional devices (MDFs) machine clusters in 4 Faculties 1,000 desktop printers (500 active)

3. Sustainable Development Group Established 20 years Web site: Why sustainability? Current initiatives - News - SDG membership - Plans and policies - How to go green - Posters All office paper 80% post-consumer recycled by default switch with Office Depot (cost neutral) Serviced printing from 5% to 75% on-line

4. Culture mainly tangible hardcopy paper use Technophobia Born digital files, reuse & copyright Document Management System (reuse and audit) The challenges

5. What we did Reduce DIY photocopying, DIY desktop printing and minimize paper Increasing academic jobs on-line and file reuse so improving quality and student experience How & why we did it Price differential (on-line is cheaper than DIY) Education Capture our IP, copyright, cost and fit for digital document reuse. E.g. Unit Guides

6. Madhouse Mathematics of DIY Desk top printout of hardcopy “originals” lost digital copy Total copies between X & Y / average speed = DIY Time at Z cost per hour Average = Two FT Academics staff per year per Faculty

7. The paradox of generation loss refers to the loss of quality and potential increase of file size between subsequent copies of data.

8. Process, Tools, People & Communications On-line print ordering system in 1994 Awareness marketing, hand holding, training, education, IT experts, bribes An idiots guide, process walk-through LSBU Sustainable Development Group LSBU student People & Planet society Budget holders Top down (VC, Pro VC, Deans) – bottom up (Students) – sideways (SIG) – all media inc print & posters

12. Next Phase 2010 to 2012 Educating stakeholders in sustainability Further reducing paper (10 top tips) Toner & Printer replacement programme Increasing ICT usage on-line Testing MFD devices linked to Pcounter Testing print routing software Free student photocopier & printer

13. On-line print ordering 10 ideas to support meetings which use less paper

14. Over 70 other open access online quick briefings on topics like Copyright, Office Productivity, Learning and Teaching Tools http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/sdu/elearn.html

15. Questions