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The online HP Carbon Footprint Calculator for printing¹ tool helps customers understand and identify steps to reduce the environmental impact and cost of their printing. The data is based on energy assessments specific to the customer's country or even state—and includes information for 146 countries.

The calculator allows users to either compare product fleets or individual products.

The fleet comparison

The assessment includes three simple steps:

1. Enter your country, region or (in some cases) state.
2. Provide basic data about your organization and your printer fleet so the calculator can estimate your print load.
3. Define your energy- and paper-saving practices, such as powering off printers daily and printing on both sides of paper.

The calculator shows your current energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, paper use and annual cost. It then illustrates how HP business solutions can reduce your impact and save money. Alternatively, customers can opt for an advanced path that allows them to input the exact printers they use, resulting in more precise outputs that better reflect the customer's current situation.

Individual products

Customers can compare current and legacy individual printers from the HP fleet. The calculator shows the estimated energy use and cost and the associated GHG emissions. Sliders on the screen allow customers to vary the pages per year and the time period (from one to ten years) and immediately see the estimated effect on energy use and other factors.

Business customers can also work with HP to build a baseline estimate of their printer fleet's carbon footprint as a starting point for environmental improvements.

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Worldwide, the total electricity consumed by data centers roughly doubled from 2000 to 2005.² In the United States, data center energy use in 2006 was equivalent to that of 5.8 million average U.S. households.³ It's expected that data center energy demands will continue to rise, increasing costs and placing greater strain on already overtaxed power infrastructures.

HP offers enterprise customers a wide range of services to reduce data center energy consumption, reclaim trapped capacity, improve performance and lower operating costs, including:

HP Critical Facilities Services In 2008, HP acquired EYP Mission Critical Facilities, which expanded the company's data center services in the areas of consulting, design and quality assurance. HP helps customers create space-efficient, scalable facilities that reduce the cost of data center operations through energy-efficient power and cooling technologies.

HP Energy Efficiency Services We help customers devise and implement an energy-usage strategy; cut costs by eliminating over-provisioning of power and cooling resources; improve power usage effectiveness; analyze the impact of prospective changes in layout, equipment or cooling capacity; transition to data center operations with decreased environmental impact; and identify the return

on investment of moving to industry benchmark best practices.

These enable customers to maximize the space, performance and efficiency of data centers. HP analyzed a cross section of customers for whom it had conducted energy efficiency analyses. The average first-year ROI was 43 percent for customers with data centers over 30,000 square feet.

HP Data Center Consolidation Services Helps customers reduce the number of their facilities, energy use and related costs and scale their business for future growth. For example, in 2008 HP completed consolidation of 85 of its own HP internal IT data centers into just six locations in three U.S. cities.

After years of research and development, the HP Deskjet D2545 Printer marks a major breakthrough in HP product design for better environmental performance. Eighty-three percent of its total plastic by weight comes from recycled resins. And its outer case parts and trays are made from 100 percent recycled plastic material.

The design advances aren't limited to the printer. The HP 60 ink cartridges the Deskjet D2545 uses are made from newly molded recycled plastics from used HP cartridges collected through the HP Planet Partners Inkjet recycling program and other sources, such as water bottles. The product packaging is also 100 percent recyclable and contains recycled plastic material.

The Deskjet D2545 was one of the first inkjet printers to feature the HP Eco Highlights label that helps customers understand a product's environmental attributes.

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The HP Green IT Action Plan for Imaging and Printing provides IT leaders a practical guide for reducing the environmental impact of their printing and imaging environment while increasing productivity and lowering costs.

The plan recommends a seven-step process (see graphic), which begins with an assessment, and offers a template to capture data about the type, location, age, functionality, service record and other characteristics of each imaging and printing device in use. That baseline data, combined with an evaluation of printing behaviors—such as when and why users print, if they frequently abandon print jobs and whether they print on both sides of the paper—helps identify opportunities to improve efficiency and productivity.

After helping customers prioritize opportunities, the action plan outlines a proven strategic framework to apply to large-office printing:

• Optimize infrastructure. Right-size and standardize with energy-efficient devices in the printing and imaging network to reduce printing costs, energy consumption and waste.

• Manage the printing environment. More efficiently manage—at the network level—printing and imaging to increase recycling of materials and save paper and other resources.

• Improve workflow. Leverage the power of multifunction printers and solutions that streamline document-intensive processes with digital alternatives to reduce environmental impact.

For each area, the action plan draws on best practices across HP's Managed Print Services portfolio, complemented by a case study of how HP helped 3M transform its printing and imaging and save more than $3 million over two years.

Interactive templates are included to help identify opportunities for reducing energy consumption, limiting wasted paper and increasing recycling rates. The action plan also goes beyond technical details, with tips and tools for developing a communications strategy to gain organizational commitment and ideas to help manage the change when implementing new printing and imaging solutions.

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Many employees of businesses and other organizations spend a significant amount of time traveling by plane. In addition to the major financial cost, this also has a sizable impact on the environment due to aircraft greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

HP Halo Telepresence Solutions, a virtual meeting tool and complete end-to-end managed service offering, creates a lifelike encounter and can eliminate the need for much of that travel. Through precisely designed rooms and the Halo Video Exchange Network (HVEN), a one-of-a-kind fiber optic network that enables no-perceived-latency communication, Halo provides an experience with high-quality video and sound that makes remote meetings feel like they're in person. And, with HVEN, meeting participants are able to easily connect not only to rooms within their own company, but to studios used by external partners, suppliers and vendors.

The savings can be sizable: If a team of four people uses a Halo studio instead of flying roundtrip from New York to London, they can avoid the emissions of nearly five tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e).⁴

If a global company eliminates 1,000 similar round trips for teams of four people, it avoids adding nearly 5,000 tonnes of CO₂e to the atmosphere—equivalent to taking 90,000 cars off U.S. roads for a day.

The amount of energy Halo itself uses is small relative to its benefits—the GHG emissions from one Halo studio in a year equal about 10 tonnes CO₂e on average.

Halo is available for use by up to 12 people in each of four studios. This number can substantially increase if a Halo Collaboration Meeting Room is used, or decrease with a Halo Collaboration Center (HCC). HP Halo is currently in 27 countries on five continents.

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The HP Handheld sp400 All-in-One is a scan-and-print solution that integrates a 2D barcode imager, a paperless inkjet printer and wireless communication into a single device.

HP developed the device in collaboration with UPS, the world's largest package delivery company, where it is already in use in the network of package centers. UPS uses the device to scan packages, send data wirelessly to a server, and print handling instructions directly onto packages without the need for a paper label. It is small and light enough to wear on the hand—much more convenient than moving trolleys loaded with thermal printers, PCs, monitors and keyboards, as was necessary previously.

By 2010, UPS expects to process more than three million packages per business day in the United States using the HP Handheld sp400 All-in-One. This device stands to save UPS more than $30 million in labor, capital and consumables costs over the next five years alone, while saving more than 1,200 tonnes of paper per year once it is fully deployed.

The HP Handheld sp400 All-in-One is ideal for distribution centers but has many other applications as well, such as airline services.

It is powered by a rechargeable lithium ion battery that delivers more than 5,000 scans and prints per charge.

Dave Barnes, senior vice president and CIO of UPS, said: "The new HP handheld device means increased efficiency and effectiveness at a lower cost, with less waste. This is a perfect example of how technology helps to drive business solutions at UPS."

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HP announced an industry first in 2008: an innovative recycling process that makes it possible to use recycled plastics in many of our new Original HP inkjet print cartridges. The proprietary process utilizes multiple sources of plastic resin, from used water bottles to HP inkjet cartridges returned through our recycling program. The amount of recycled plastic in HP inkjet cartridges may vary from 50 to 75 percent of the total plastic used depending on product type.

Using recycled materials saves energy, avoids waste and keeps plastic out of landfills. Although it can be difficult to achieve consistent quality and reliability when using recycled plastics, HP's managers challenged the project's engineers, chemists and partners to develop recycled materials that met HP's high performance standards. After years of effort and dozens of trials, they achieved that objective.

Our goal for 2008 was to use more than 4,500 tonnes (10 million pounds) of recycled content resin (which is 75 percent recycled content, minimum 95 percent post-consumer) in our new Original HP inkjet print cartridges. We used 4,800 tonnes (10.5 million pounds), more than twice the amount in 2007, as well as an additional 680 tonnes (1.5 million pounds) of 50 percent recycled content resin.

Since HP began the pilot process in 2005, through the end of the 2008 fiscal year, HP used more than 14,500 tonnes (32 million pounds) of recycled plastic resin⁵ in over 565 million inkjet print cartridges.⁶ Our goal is to maintain our recycled content resin use at more than 4,500 tonnes in 2009.

The Society of Plastics Engineers, a trade organization, recognized this breakthrough by presenting HP with its most prestigious environmental stewardship award in 2008.

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The toner in laser printers requires heat from a fuser to adhere properly to the paper. Instant-on Technology in HP LaserJet printers saves energy and avoids greenhouse gas emissions because it heats up quickly and avoids the need to maintain power when the machine is idle.

Instant-on Technology virtually eliminates the warm-up period, which wastes energy as well as time. It enables users to begin printing in just a few seconds. Users consume up to 50 percent less energy related to printing, compared with using printers without this technology.

HP estimates that for monochrome LaserJet products alone, Instant-on Technology has helped customers avoid nearly 6.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) emissions from the technology's inception in 1993 to 2007.⁷ This is equal to removing 1.4 million cars from the road for one year. In 2007 alone, HP estimates this technology helped save nearly 1.2 million tonnes of CO₂e emissions—equivalent to about 80 percent of CO₂e emissions from HP's operations during 2008.

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HP's Pavilion Entertainment Notebook PC won the Walmart Home Entertainment Design Challenge in 2008 with an innovative packaging design that reduces consumer packaging by 97 percent. The design also conserves fuel and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the amount of space required for each packaged notebook and therefore increasing the number of notebooks that fit on each truck for delivery to Walmart stores and Sam's Club locations around the United States.

HP's packaging designers developed a sturdy and stylish messenger bag instead of the usual cardboard box, meeting Walmart's three criteria:

• Great design that attracts consumers
• Product innovation that reduces the environmental impact for its product category
• Packaging design that facilitates reuse and recycling, reduces waste for the consumer, and reduces or eliminates the use of toxic materials

The HP Protect Messenger Bag is made from 100 percent recycled materials. The design allows for a dramatic reduction in overall packaging content and size while delivering equal, if not better, product protection when compared with conventional packaging.

Customers leave Walmart with just their new notebook, accessories and a convenient, reusable messenger bag and avoid the hassle and waste of boxes and excess packaging.

Alex Cook, merchandise manager for Walmart Home Entertainment, praised HP's innovative thinking: "We received many strong ideas from different suppliers, but the innovative packaging with this HP laptop really stood out, and we are thrilled to make this great product available to shoppers in Walmart stores and Sam's Club locations."

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HP offers dry printing solutions for commercial photo processing that reduce the environmental impact of standard photo printing. A typical silver halide system discharges 1,600 gallons of chemicals and water a year. HP Photosmart pm2000e Microlab and HP Photosmart ml1000 Minilab printers, introduced in 2008, are self-contained units that do not require a water source or drains, reducing the overflow of developer, fixer and wash water to municipal and private waste treatment facilities. These products also eliminate the need for operators to interact with and handle potentially hazardous chemicals.

HP Retail Photo Solutions supplies can be easily recycled after use, and HP provides free shipping materials and postage.

These systems have additional environmental benefits as well. HP's Photosmart ml1000 Minilab printer requires only ten minutes to start from standby mode—compared with an average of two hours for a typical silver halide wet lab—and consumes only one-third of the energy in use.

The overall quality of the digital prints and the accuracy of the color won HP's Photosmart printers a Digital Imaging Marketing Association® (DIMA) Innovative Digital Product Award in 2008.

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With conventional book publishing technology, a print run for one book title must be in the thousands to be cost effective. As a consequence, publishers typically produce large batches based on anticipated sales over several months. This results in an estimated 25 percent of books going unsold⁸, wasting the paper, ink and energy required to produce them.

HP Indigo digital presses enable publishers to cost-effectively print books on demand, eliminating much of the waste and overhead of overproducing and managing (warehousing, processing returns, recycling) books. Other print-on-demand applications include everything from personalized marketing collateral to high-quality photo books.

HP Indigo also offers environmental benefits compared with traditional offset presses in the printing process itself. A study by the Rochester Institute of Technology concluded that the HP Indigo printer had the following benefits compared with a typical lithographic press⁹:

• For shorter runs (500 copies), the Indigo press wasted 98 percent less paper and used 86 percent less ink than the lithographic press.
• For longer runs (3,000 copies), the Indigo press wasted 43 percent less paper and used 39 percent less ink than the lithographic press.

HP offers print-on-demand technologies for the newspaper and periodical industries as well. Announced in May 2008 and launching in the second half of 2009, the high-speed HP Inkjet Web Press will allow shorter runs (in the thousands) with more personalization in the newspaper and periodical industry, compared with the longer runs (in the tens of thousands) traditionally seen in this market. This holds promise to help reduce waste in this industry. Each year, almost 3 billion magazines on newsstands are never read—placed end to end, these would circle the earth at the equator 20 times.¹⁰

HP is conducting life cycle assessments comparing analog with digital printing and publishing to better understand and analyze the possible environmental benefits of a digital publishing transformation.

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Meeting ever-increasing computing and data storage demands—while keeping energy use to a minimum—presents a significant business challenge for enterprises. According to one estimate, the amount of energy used by servers and the power and cooling infrastructure to support them doubled from 2002 to 2007.¹¹ To address these issues, HP designed its latest generation of blade servers with energy savings in mind. Power-saving components in these new servers include energy-efficient processors and power supplies, small form-factor drives, active fan technology and low-power memory.

The redesigned HP ProLiant BL460c G5 server reduces energy use by up to 25 percent over HP's previous model and is already compliant with upcoming ENERGY STAR® server guidelines. It delivers industry-leading performance per watt, yielding up to $2,200 in energy savings for a typical enclosure of 16 blades over three years without compromising performance.¹²

Embedded in HP ProLiant servers, HP Dynamic Power Capping determines how much power a server needs and sets a safe threshold based on real-world usage. As a result, an enterprise can add servers without risk of overloading circuits, increasing effective capacity by up to 200 percent and extending data center life.

Reclaiming unused electrical capacity can avoid the expense of adding capacity or building additional facilities, extending the life of data centers. The cost to add a megawatt of electrical capacity to a data center can be up to $25 million.¹³

Even greater energy efficiency is possible by combining the latest HP blade server and power supply technologies. For example, the HP 2400W High Efficiency Power Supply is uniquely able to turn off half the power supply to a server during periods of low demand, further reducing energy use and achieving high efficiency even at low power loads. Options available for the HP ProLiant BL460c G5 server include low-power memory, low-voltage processors, solid-state drives and patented ActiveCool Fans, all of which lower energy consumption even more.

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The sleek design of the HP TouchSmart IQ 500 series PCs achieves twin objectives of environmental benefit and an attractive, high-performing product.

The next-generation PC with innovative touch-screen technology combines a 22-inch high-definition screen with a powerful processor and hard drive in a single, integrated unit including webcam, media card reader and speakers.

The chassis uses 55 percent less metal and 37 percent less plastic than a standard PC and monitor, saving 3.3 kilograms of metal and 0.8 kilograms of plastic per unit.¹⁴ Reducing the product's total size and weight saves not only material but also the amount of packaging required and the fuel needed to transport it. Having a single unit also avoids duplicating components such as power cords, power supplies and switches, which are required for a separate monitor and PC.

The TouchSmart uses power-efficient chips and notebook technology as well as power management to reduce energy consumption, heat and noise. In total, the TouchSmart provides up to 45 percent energy savings (more than 80 kWh per year) compared to PCs without power management enabled.¹⁵ Not only does this decrease energy consumption, but it also improves reliability by reducing heat output.

To further enhance energy savings, the TouchSmart is set to default to sleep mode after 15 minutes of being idle. And for ease of use, it is designed to wake up very quickly. HP TouchSmart PCs are ENERGY STAR® qualified and received an EPEAT® silver rating.

Additionally, TouchSmart IQ 500 series PCs use a new packaging design that virtually eliminates plastic foam cushioning materials.¹⁶

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The HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra Slim Desktop is one of the industry's smallest enterprise-ready desktops—46 percent smaller than previous HP models. The dc7800's solid-state hard drive provides many performance and durability improvements, including near-instantaneous access to data and the elimination of a moving disk drive, which is the main cause of electro-mechanical wear out. Additional benefits include a faster system start, better reliability and a smaller overall footprint on the desk.

The dc7800 has several energy-efficient features as well, including HP's lowest-power-consuming, 85 percent efficient power supply and the latest Intel® Core™ 2 Duo¹⁷ processors.

The product supports Verdiem SURVEYOR™ network power management software.¹⁸ SURVEYOR can help measure, manage and therefore reduce power consumption on PCs and monitors. When paired with Intel vPro remote management technologies, SURVEYOR™ can lower energy costs versus a PC left running when not in use.

These advanced attributes allow the dc7800 to meet the most stringent environmental requirements for the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT®) Gold registered products.

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