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Environmental Impact

Wasteful printing depletes natural resources and drains your IT budget. Enforce smart print policies, track your environmental footprint, and transform your on-premise print environment into a Forest Positive ecosystem with PaperCut Grows.

Visualize impact with the Environmental Dashboard

Display real-time environmental metrics directly on users’ screens to make the impact of their printing tangible. Show paper consumption as energy equivalents like light bulb hours or CO2 emissions to drive cultural change.

To learn more, see the manual page on the Environmental Dashboard.

See the environmental impact of PaperCut MF with dashboards

Prevent waste with Find-Me printing

Send print jobs to a single global queue and hold them until users authenticate at their chosen device. Eradicate abandoned documents and automatically purge uncollected jobs to instantly reduce your paper consumption.

Quantify your impact with a report that tracks automatically deleted, uncollected print jobs. Instantly see how much paper, toner, and budget you’ve saved by preventing waste before it happens.

Dive into all the details of secure print release and Find-Me Printing in this feature page.

Enforce sustainable printing policies with advanced print scripting

Write custom scripts to automatically route large jobs to highly efficient, high-volume printers. Enforce rules that restrict color printing or mandate duplex printing for specific departments to hit your sustainability targets.


For a detailed look at what’s possible, read about Print Scripting in the manual.

A PaperCut MF interactive script window showing a sustainability nudge to a user.

Control costs and measure your impact

PaperCut MF/NG replaces guesswork with a data-driven strategy to prevent waste before it happens. By assigning enforceable quotas, you eliminate accidental overages and encourage mindful habits across your organization.

  • Curb waste with quotas: Set sensible print budgets for users or departments that automatically reset.
  • Audit-ready ESG reporting: Generate automated reports on CO2 reduction, paper savings, and energy usage.
  • Prove your progress: Use transparent metrics to show stakeholders exactly how much paper and carbon you’ve saved.

For full details see the feature pages on Quotas and Auditing, logs and reporting.

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Give back with Forest Positive printing

Turn your printing into a force for good. PaperCut Grows calculates your paper usage in real-time and funds the planting of enough trees to ensure your organization gives back more than it takes.

  • Automated sustainability: No manual tracking—PaperCut facilitates planting based on your live usage.
  • Visible progress: Track your impact through a live dashboard for easy ESG and CSR reporting.
  • Verified restoration: Our partners ensure trees are planted in high-need areas and monitored for survival.

To move beyond “reducing waste” to becoming “Forest Positive,” visit the PaperCut Grows program page.

Illustration demonstrating an equation printing from PaperCut products plus PaperCut grows equals forest positive printing

Work with a verified B Corp partner

We don’t just help you print greener; we hold ourselves to the same high standards.

PaperCut is a certified B Corp, meaning our environmental and social impact is independently verified. Our in-house “Sustainable Futures” team leads the charge, overseeing everything from our B Corp status to the PaperCut Grows program, so you can be confident you’re working with a partner that practices what they preach.

Curious about Why PaperCut became a B-Corp?