Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced a suite of products and programs aimed and reducing the amount of paper and energy offices use in their daily operations.

HP’s Eco-Solutions line includes a new green label, called Eco Highlights, which identifies the environmental attributes of a product or service - from energy use to duplex-printing features to end-of-life recyclability of the products. The first products included under the label are the LaserJet P4510 and P4015 series of printers and the DeskJet D2545 printer.

The D2545 printer was also announced yesterday by HP. With over 80 percent of the product’s plastic made from recycled material, it is the company’s most recyclable printer, and the cartridges it uses are molded from recycled plastic resins.

On top of that, the overall packaging for the printer is fully recyclable; the printer is qualified for Energy Star certification; and it comes with HP’s Smart Web Printing technology, which saves paper by combining on one sheet the portions of websites that would otherwise take up a full page of paper. The company also plans to introduce another green printer this summer that uses HP’s closed-loop plastic recycling process.

The HP website also includes a helpful Energy Tips page to help reduce energy usage in the home or office.

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