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For the past few years, corporations have been touting the launch of each new sustainability program – from employee engagement initiatives to renewable energy powered operations. And so, 2009 is an interesting year for Green Printer to check in on the results of these shop floor and boardroom decisions. In a very interesting article, Anca Novacovici of Eco-Coach speaks about how corporations like 3M and Grossman Marketing group reaped in tangible – but unexpected revenue surges, savings and client kudos – by choosing the greener path.

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Green Printing Myths – Busted! Why not make green by printing sustainably?

By contributing guest author Ida Cheinman, Principal and Creative Director of Substance 151 , a strategic design agency for Green Printer ’s “Design Goes Green” series. We live in a time when “sustainability” is topping the buzzword charts and a wave of greenwashing is flooding the mainstream. We live in a time of intense competition, gloomy economic forecasts and rapidly disappearing marketing budgets, but also in a time when more and more companies and organizations strive to uphold higher environmental and social values, making the shift to the triple bottom line economic model

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Substance 151: Modular design systems and visual vocabularies

Over the years I have seen quite a few problems with computer fans.  Not too long ago I was called to look at a user’s Dell Optiplex GX280 who said his fan was really loud.  As soon as I walked in there was no doubt there was a problem since the computer sounded like a jet ready to take off!  The CPU fan on this computer is a variable speed fan and only runs as fast as necessary to keep the CPU cool.  I ran some diagnostics on the fan.  During diagnostics the system tells the fan to run at 3000 RPM and then the fan’s sensor is supposed to report back the speed it is running at.  I discovered that this fan had a bad sensor so it was always reporting that it was running at zero RPM even though it was screaming at full speed.  I ordered a new fan and that took care of the problem. Later, however, I was called back because it kept giving the error message “Previous fan failure,” which was accurate since there had been a previous fan failure.  I went into the BIOS under “Post Behavior.” I went to “Keyboard Errors” and set it to “Do Not Report” and rebooted the computer.  It came up without reporting the “Previous fan failure” error.  I returned the setting to “Report” and now the fan error is no longer there.  I’d have to say that this was one of the more unique problems with computer fans that I’ve seen.

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Problems With Computer Fans