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How many times have you gone to print a document or web page and ended up with one or more useless pages at the end of your print job? What a waste of paper and ink! Well, there is a solution, and it's not only easy -- it's free.

GreenPrint World is a free program you can download and use to help put a stop to those unwanted printed pages. The program analyzes your print job, then lets you decide what elements to print and which ones to skip (say, photographs, or the legal disclaimers at the bottom of a web page). It keeps track of how many pages you don't print, allowing you to "track your impact" (how much paper you have used, or how much ink you have saved) and monitor your overall printing habits.

You can also use GreenPrint World to generate PDFs of any document, allowing you to keep a digital copy of a web page instead of printing it at all.

Available since 2006, this new version of GreenPrint is now free for the first time, although it includes less features than the $35 Premium edition, and is supported by advertising, which appears fairly unobtrusively on the program's interface while your print job is being analyzed to see how much paper you can save.

By releasing this free version of its program, GreenPrint Technologies has announced that they hope to save "100 million trees and reduce greenhouse gases by 300 million tons globally." Pretty lofty goals -- and ones worth applauding.