Comments for Sustainable IT

Comment on The Mobility Plan and Sustainable IT by Ralph Pina

Ralph Pina — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:11:12 +0000

Ons wag vir ondertekening van die ooreenkoms. As konfigurering goed verloop, nog voor die Paasnaweek. Indien nie, so spoedig moontlik daarna.

Comment on The Mobility Plan and Sustainable IT by Ilse le Grange

Ilse le Grange — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:07:41 +0000

Julle Bits& Bytes “koerantjie” is pragtig! En ek’s baie opgewonde oor die “rideshare”/ “lift club” fasiliteit waaraan julle werk. Wanneer gaan dit in gebruik geneem word?

Comment on Where to recycle HP consumables (empty cartridges and replaced maintenance kits) by Printer Parts Cape

Printer Parts Cape — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:20:58 +0000

Our company recycles all HP Printer maintenance kits. We remanufacture and refurbish these units and put back into the market with same OEM warranties. This is a tremndous initiative in preventing uneccesary dumping – Call us on 021 555-2281 to collect in bulk

Comment on Printing system saves paper, water by Ralph Pina

Ralph Pina — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:50:47 +0000

The percentage is based on the usage the previous year in the particular student areas mentioned in the post. Previous usage in those areas was of the order of 15 million sheets per annum. However, the university as a whole consumes in excess of 50 million sheets per annum.

Comment on Printing system saves paper, water by port elizabeth

port elizabeth — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:20:17 +0000

I like your stats! When you say the University used 39% less paper, what figure are you basing the percentage on, so how much paper was being used before you implemented such measures?

Comment on Printing system saves paper, water by hamslaai

hamslaai — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:46:46 +0000

Well done to the team !

Comment on Printing system saves paper, water by Simon Gerber

Simon Gerber — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:49:53 +0000

Very cool stats! This printing solution has much improved the headache that printing used to be.

Comment on New printing system starts to show savings by Le Roux

Le Roux — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:37:29 +0000

Hallo Cara

Indien jou laptop aan die universiteit se netwerk gekoppel is, is dit geen probleem nie.

Jy installeer die drukker
\\rgaprint.stb.sun.ac.za\SecurePrint-RGA-PCL5-PR01

Gebruik jou gebruikersnaam en wagwoord wanneer jy daarvoor gevra word.

Comment on New printing system starts to show savings by Cara

Cara — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:26:19 +0000

Nou vir die volgende groot stap… wanneer sal ek vanaf my laptop dokumente na die drukker toe kan stuur? Ek moet maar nog oudergewoonte met ‘n flash disk in die rekenaar-ry gaan staan by ‘n RGA as ek enigiets wil druk. Verwys my gerus as julle nie die regte ouens is om hierdie vraag te antwoord nie?

Comment on New printing system starts to show savings by Rudolf

Rudolf — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:33:53 +0000

Mens kan slegs die nuwe drukfasiliteit se lof besing: dit is ‘n massiewe besparing van geld (aankoop van papier en ink), hulpbronne (bome, TYD, ens.), ens.
Daar is velerlei positiewe gevolge.
Verby is die noodsaak om DADELIK jou gedagte-gang/werk te onderbreek om die drukstuk te gaan inwag-soos-dit-gedruk-word, net om ‘n gerondsnuffel vir ‘n drukstuk tussen hope gemorsde (SKOON!) papier, wat rondgetrap word. Nou kan ek 10 dokumente drukker toe stuur, voordat ek, nadat al my ander werk afgehandel is, almal tegelyk kan gaan haal, by die drukker van my keuse!

(Goed dan, in Engels:)
The default printer settings can easily be changed BEFORE sending the document to the printer:
1 – Click on ‘Properties’, next to the printer’s name in the ‘Print’ message box.
2 – Click on the ‘Finishing’ tab and then REMOVE the tick next to ‘Print on Both
Sides’ to print only on one side [PLEASE THINK TWICE: Rather print on both
sides, if at all possible].

Reduce the number of pages you need to carry around:
1 – Click on ‘Properties’, next to the printer’s name in the ‘Print’ message box.
2 – Click on the ‘Finishing’ tab and then click next to ‘Print on Both
Sides’ (ensure there IS a tick) to print ON BOTH SIDES of a sheet.
3 – On the ‘Finishing’ tab, change the ‘Pages per Sheet’ to 2 (or even 4) to even
further reduce the number of sheets you have to print: notes that do not
contain small detailed graphs, or small print, can still be readable with even
4 pages PER SIDE of a sheet. That is 8 (EIGHT) pages per sheet!
4 – Click OK to close the ‘Properties’ message box and print your document.

For SLIDES:
1 – Click on the ‘Finishing’ tab and then click next to ‘Print on Both
Sides’ (ensure there IS a tick) to PRINT ON BOTH SIDES of a sheet.
2 – On the ‘Finishing’ tab, change the ‘Pages Per Sheet’ to 1 (ONE) only.
3 – Click OK to close the ‘Properties’ message box.
4 – Change the ‘Print what’ (from ‘Slides’) to ‘Handouts’.
5 – Change ‘Slides per page’ to 6 (SIX).
6 – Print your PowerPoint slides (6 per side, 12 in total, per sheet!).

IF THE SLIDES ARE TOO SMALL TO READ like this:
7 – Try ‘Slides per page’ of 4 (or even 2), if the slides contain a LOT of detail.

With a little practice, you are able to significantly reduce the stack of paper required to print your notes!

Comment on The Story of Electronics by Tim

Tim — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:22:05 +0000

She did not mention take back laws in SA as we don’t have any! The Waste Management Act of 2009 is very weak on this subject. Any e-waste recycling taking place at present is purely voluntary and is not legislated or policed sufficiently. Significantly more needs to be done in this area.

Comment on New printing system starts to show savings by dw

dw — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:30:49 +0000

I am skeptical that the “laptop-per-student” will work with the South African culture of lack of ownership and responsibility. Give a student a “free laptop” and he/she will regard it as their own to reformat and turn into a gaming/Facebook/P2P toy! The first thing to disappear will be the notes and study material!

Secondly the laptop screen resolution is certainly not conducive to study, long periods of concentration and eye fatigue. Paper is better. Perhaps the university should have investigated a “Kindle-like” option rather than cheap laptops that can be used for things OTHER than studying notes.

Comment on New printing system starts to show savings by Steve Walsh

Steve Walsh — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:52:18 +0000

You can save a lot more by using a product such as Fineprint where you can print say two pages on one A4, then print duplex and make that 4 pages on one A4 sheet. Most of the time the text is readable at this resolution. I have achieved a 75% saving on paper using this method.

Comment on New printing system starts to show savings by Anton

Anton — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:23:03 +0000

Wel gedaan met die besparings inisiatief IT! Hoop daar is vele meer sulkes. Bygesê papier is ‘n hernubare item, afkomstig van ‘n volhoubaar bestuurde hernubare hulpbron, hout, in Suid Afrika. Solank die papier nie verbrand word nie, is dit ook ‘n effektiewe stoor van koolstof (dink maar aan miljoene tonne in biblioteke oor die wêreld, sommige meer as 1000 jaar oud. My punt is dat om papier te spaar nie noodwendig die planeet gaan red nie. Die gebruik van papier, karton en hout in plaas van plastiek en ander vervaardigde polimere kan wel bydra. Plant ‘n boom en laat ‘n toekoms na!

Comment on New printing system starts to show savings by Pierre

Pierre — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:20:09 +0000

Not sure what Ydalene Coetsee means by “saving our planet”, or what aircon has to do with any of this, but I do appreciate the fact that money is being saved by the new system. It shouldn’t have taken so many years to find a solution to the problem. I also know of people that complained that they do not always want to print duplex.