TL;DR
Legacy print environments drain time and money, and hinder progress toward your sustainability goals. Enterprise print management solutions, like Pharos Cloud, eliminate costly print servers, cut energy use, and reduce waste to lower the environmental impact of your organization’s office printing.
Right now, your print infrastructure may be quietly undermining progress toward your sustainability goals and you might not even know it. This matters more than you think.
Sustainability ranks among the top purchasing criteria for corporate buyers, with more than a third saying they would switch suppliers if standards aren’t met (Bain & Company). That pressure extends to IT: 85% of CXOs, including CIOs, increased sustainability investments in 2024, driven by stakeholder expectations (Deloitte).
Yet print continues to be a source of hidden inefficiencies that are often overlooked and difficult to quantify without modern tools.
Fortunately, addressing these issues is straightforward with enterprise print management solutions, which eliminate on-premises print servers to reduce energy use, lower costs, centralize control, and reclaim IT time—while also laying the groundwork for more environmentally-responsible printing.
The Hidden Cost of Legacy Print
Many organizations maintain distributed print servers across multiple sites. These run 24/7, consuming energy, increasing cooling demands, and requiring ongoing maintenance.
In addition, many documents are printed needlessly. Without print workflows like secure release, many printed pages will go unretrieved, wasting paper, toner, and resources.
In short, fragmented print infrastructure inflates expenses and stalls sustainability efforts.
How Cloud Print Management Reduces Environmental Impact
Migrating print infrastructure to the cloud reduces an organization’s environmental impact while advancing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. For organizations with ESG targets, print is an easy area to demonstrate progress to stakeholders and partners evaluating supplier sustainability.
With a modern, cloud-based print management platform like Pharos Cloud, operational efficiency is one of the fastest paths to sustainability gains:
- Eliminate on-premises print servers to cut both energy consumption and cooling needs.
- Prevent waste and use fewer consumables with secure release workflows, duplex (two-sided) printing, and grayscale defaults.
- Track progress with built-in analytics tools, like Pharos Insights, that estimate the environmental impact of your organization’s printing based on paper use.
Intuitive dashboards let IT monitor consumables over time, reportcost impacts, identify trends, and estimate the environmental impact of your organization’s printing.
With the right platform in place, IT teams can prevent waste before it happens, and demonstrate to stakeholders how a mode
Discover how Pharos Cloud can help your organization reduce waste, cut costs, and simplify print management.
Pharos Cloud centralizes control, eliminates on-premises print servers, and supports secure, vendor-agnostic printing across any device or location. Reduce the environmental impact of your printing with a secure, ISO 27001 certified platform supporting for Zero Trust principles.
