Tips and Tools

Whether you’re at home, in the office, or managing IT for an entire enterprise, it’s easy to save energy, cut costs, and reduce the impact your technology has on the environment. Learn how making just a few simple changes can help make a real difference.

CHOOSE

Establish green procurement guidelines.

Learn about environmental procurement criteria for technology products, and find recommendations for applying green procurement practices with the HP Green Procurement Guide.

Seek out environmental labels.

Choose technology products that meet stringent eco-guidelines such as ENERGY STAR^® or EPEAT^®. Also look for the HP Eco Highlights label on more than 200 HP products for information about environmental attributes like energy efficiency or recycled content. Learn more at www.hp.com/environment.

Measure your baseline.

Estimate the energy and carbon footprint of your HP computing products and printing devices with the free, online HP Carbon Footprint Calculator.

HP Carbon Footprint Calculator (demo by GetConnectedTV)

CONSOLIDATE

Shift to solutions that streamline or displace inefficient technology.

Retire old and redundant devices in favor of fewer, more energy-efficient printers and imaging devices. HP Managed Print Services has helped customers like Viacom, 3M, and others cut energy use and costs significantly. See for yourself about the HP Printing Payback Guarantee.

Cut energy use, create efficiencies by going thin.

Switch to HP Thin Client solutions to reduce energy use by up to 90% over traditional desktop PCs. With no hard drives, fans, or other moving parts, they generate virtually no heat, which means less A/C. The potential for energy and cost savings across an enterprise is huge.

Make a plan for your printing environment.

Get practical advice for reducing the environmental impact of your enterprise’s printing and imaging fleet with the HP Green IT Action Plan. For your office, refer to the HP Green Action Plan for Office Printing.

Have frequent, meaningful collaborations without the impact of travel.

With immersive, real-time video conferencing, HP Visual Collaboration offers the benefit of meeting face-to-face with a fraction of the energy use and carbon emissions. In a 36-month period, HP Visual Collaboration Studios have saved nearly 175,000 tonnes of CO2e—equivalent to the electricity used by nearly 23,000 U.S. households in a year.

CONTROL

Make your office more energy efficient

Learn how to set up office equipment to take advantage of power settings that can reduce energy use through this enlightening video:

Control your printer's energy, paper, and supplies settings.

Use your HP PC to control your printer's settings. Plus, get access to information about how to save energy and shrink your carbon footprint. Learn more at www.hp.com/go/printconsole.

Identify and control hidden energy waste and costs.

Computers are often left on overnight and over weekends in most companies, wasting electricity while no one is using them. HP Power Assistant works much like a programmable thermostat. Set it to automatically switch a PC to a low-power state after a defined amount of idle time, or to a preset schedule, maximizing energy efficiency.

Save time, energy and money with HP Web Jetadmin.

Stop managing imaging and printing setting device by device. With HP Web Jetadmin, IT managers can centrally configure and manage devices across your office or enterprise-wide, and take advantage of energy-saving features like automatic sleep and wake modes.

Prevent overcooling, save wasted energy and money.

Cooling a data center can represent up to 50% of operating costs. One reason: Overcooling an entire facility to prevent a few hotspots. HP Thermal Zone Mapping creates a 3D view of temperature in your data center so you can fine tune it according to area. Learn more about HP’s Energy Efficiency Services.

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