From: Employee Communication
To: State Street Employees
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:12 PM
Subject: New Default Settings for Multi-function Network Printers
As part of Global Procurement Services’ (GPS) plans to aggressively review our spend with all suppliers and partners and to align the company’s day-to-day activities with State Street’s environmental sustainability efforts, the default settings on all networked floor printers will be changed to print documents double-sided and in black and white print. It is important to note that customer production print will not be affected by this change, and we have contacted key individuals from each business unit to identify those that should be bypassed for this initiative.
Starting the week of May 11, IT began to convert all multi-function and network devices throughout Eastern Massachusetts to the default settings below. This new default feature will be available for printers that are capable of the defaults by Friday, May 22.
Default to Duplex
The default to duplex for all existing multi function and network printers will result in double-sided printing of documents and will help reduce paper waste. If you need to print single-sided, you can select this option from the “printer properties” in the print menu.
Default to Black and White
For all existing color multi-function and network printers, the default setting will be changed to black and white to significantly reduce expenses associated with printing on color devices due to the cost of color toner in comparison with black and white. If you need to print in color, you can select this option from the “printer properties” in the print menu.
We appreciate your support in helping State Street meet our financial and environmental goals.
pitch monkeys are safe yes!
Topic of next month’s board meeting: “The War on Printing May be Unwinnable”
I don’t make documents, I print them.
~State St administrative assistant
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duplex printing?!?!?
WHAT.THE.F*CK?!??!?! THEY’VE GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME, TIME FOR A MUTINY!!!!
so much for making money on toner in 2009, revise those profit projections – time to short HP!
so this is why Dunder Mifflin is closing its Buffalo branch…
nice word choices: ‘duplex’ is so sheik and ‘environmental sustainability’ is so green. you almost forget how cheap stt is – better hold onto the tarp money if too cheap to buy paper … suck it logue
Go ahead and laugh, but think how many pages get printed daily. The big payoff is going to come from the default to black and white. Color is a scam promoted by HP. State Street is going to save big by simply asking some IT nerd to spend a minute on flipping the default switch a different way.
@9 Bravo, must have been your idea.
What’s that saying? ” Can’t see the wood for the trees … “
just got an email. bathroom is now BYOTP…
10 Normally, I would agree with you. When thing get rough, the first thing people come up with is the petty stuff, like muffins at meetings. The whole exercise though winds up taking up a lot of everyone’s time and saving maybe $27 each month. This printer thing though is like buying an annuity – flip the switch and the savings keep rolling in. The proof is that HP goes out of their way to have you do the opposite – flip the switch the other way and see toner sales soar.
What a bunch of petty LOOOOSERS!!!
if you smear some toner on your office door, the angel of penury will leave your printing permissions unchanged
“Ok, and print”
“Oh shit! I forgot it automatically prints double-sided! This really should be single-sided, I gotta print it again…”
“Double shit! I need the last 10 pages in color for my charts! Gotta print ‘em again!”
@15 hit the nail on the head.
More time is wasted at 1am running (crawling) back/forth to the printer room…
@15, 16. How dumb do you have to be to fuck up something as simple as PRINTING. pray tell.
@17 doesn’t know what a printer is so his opinion doesn’t count.
- not 15
- not 16
15 “I forgot it automatically prints double-sided”. If you can’t even master that one (ok, after maybe a day or two) what makes you think you have what it takes to succeed in banking?
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@19 – It takes you a day or two to master that? What makes you think you have what it takes to succeed at living?
@17, “How dumb do you have to be to fuck up something as simple as PRINTING. pray tell.”
Probably as dumb as the dipshit who doesn’t know when to use a question mark instead of a period.
21 Isn’t a day or two reasonable to break an old habit? Its like driving in the UK. Feels funny at first, but in no time at all totally natural.
@15. Clever comment. Well done.
@15. Clever comment. Well done.
@15. Clever comment. Well done.
@20 – NICE
This move is one of the recommendations from BCG’s cost-cutting project…
Did you all hear about Xerox launching solid ink? It’s pretty sweet and uses sticks as opposed to HP’s shitty, expensive toner. No ‘duplexing’/b&w bullshit here…