Memjet's Environmental Vision

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Memjet Home and Office aims to deliver breakthrough printing technology and innovative business strategies that also deliver new environmental value to home and office customers. We select and partner with OEM brands that share our goals for sustainability practices. We encourage home and office customers to consider Memjet as a superior environmental printing solution.

As a small company we are both humbled by the “green” goals achieved by some major industry brands and also frustrated by the industry’s stubbornness regarding long standing practices, such as fighting against cartridge refill. We hope to both mimick the best practices of others and to take dramatic new steps to elevate the sustainability of printing.

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End Users

Company Operations
  • Consider how the printer or MFP brand is ranked on internal sustainability practices amongst its peers.
  • Is the brand a leader in reducing waste and energy use, in providing for the health and safety of its workers and in the use of sustainable resources?
  • Does it promote environmental solutions internally and externally with its partners and in its community?
  • Does it seek to prioritize, develop and promote environmental products as a key element of its business strategy?
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Environmental Footprint (Materials & Safety)
  • Consider the carbon footprint of the device you are buying.
  • Is the product built to last?
  • What's the overall material content? Does the product use recycled plastics and other environmentally friendly materials? Has the packaging footprint been minimized?
  • Does the device contain materials that are scarce, or energy intensive to provide?
  • Does the device contain heavy metals or other materials that create health and safety issues as the product is recycled or disposed?
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Home & Office Operations
  • Do you turn your products off when they are not in use?
  • Are you taking advantage of low power settings and options on your devices?
  • Have you considered downloading software used to eliminate the printing of unnecessary pages from your web browser software?
  • Do you take advantage of recycling programs and/or make an effort to donate and/or recycle products no longer needed?
  • As a business have you implemented "print on demand" options for printed materials to reduce paper based waste?
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Supplier/Supply Chain Operations
  • Does the printer or MFP brand choose suppliers and business partners based on their adherence to environmental practices and encourage such practices in conjunction with their partners?
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Energy Usage & Management
  • How much energy does the device use during a typical day of printing, idle/ready time and "sleep" time?
  • Does the device contain automated or customer controlled settings that allow the device to be turned off or go into a minimal energy-use mode when idle?
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Product Choice
  • Are you choosing products designed to last longer?
  • Are you choosing products that have sustainability features such as duplex printing?
  • Are you buying a product from a brand with leading sustainability practices?
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Recycle & Take Back Programs
  • Does the printer or MFP brand offer to return, refurbish, recycle and/or repurpose the technology products they sell?
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Sustainable Features
  • Does the device support recycled media types?
  • Does it support duplex printing options?
  • Can the device be easily managed remotely?
  • Does the device have energy use settings that allow customers to lower energy use during long idle periods?
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Paper Choice
  • Are you buying paper with recycled content, from sources that harvest and manufacture paper in the most sustainable ways?
  • Over the life of a printer your paper choice may be the biggest environmental factor your can influence. Look for regionally produced paper with 30% or more recycled content, from manufacturers who are reducing the energy and pollution used to manufacture paper and procuring pulp from sources that are sustainably raising and managing forests. For more information on "green" paper choices in the U.S. visit "the green office"
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Refill Programs
  • Does the printer or MFP brand seek to further reduce consumer waste by offering cartridge refill/reuse opportunities themselves or in conjunction with partners?
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Cartridge Capacity & Refill
  • Does the device provide high-capacity cartridges that reduce the number of trips needed to replace/refill cartridges?
  • Does the device allow cartridges to be refilled?  Is there any functionality lost in doing so?
  • Can the refill be performed regionally or locally?
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Cartridge Choice
  • Have you chosen a high capacity cartridge that lessons the trips needed to replace/refill the cartridge?
  • Is the cartridge refillable?
  • What are the environmental practices of remanufactured or refill cartridges?  Are they made locally or shipped great distances?
  • Are there regional or local options that limit the carbon footprint of providing replacement consumables?
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