How much do we print

There is a huge volume of printing done in the modern office. In the U.S. in 2006, 2,000,000,000,000 (trillion) pages were printed or copied for office use.  The advent of technology was supposed to herald the arrival of the “paperless office”. Unfortunately, that has not materialized at all, for two reasons.

1. It has become much easier to print
2. There is a flood of information at our fingertips

The combination of those two factors has lead to an explosion in the generation of printed documents. For whatever reasons, seeing information on screen isn’t sufficient — we want it on paper in our hands. Or we want a paper record – requiring storage, filing, searching – accessing when needed.