In honor of Earth Day, this week’s blog postings will help point you toward some Earth-friendly news and some greener ways of using your printer. Canon, which makes the popular all-in-one Pixma printers, announced that from May through August it will plant one tree for every 10 new Canon Generation Green products registered (these include many scanners as well as Pixma printers). So make sure you register your Canon purchase!

You can save paper (and money) by duplex printing (printing on both sides of the page) as well as by reducing the size of prints and putting multiple pages on one sheet. That’s particularly useful for big jobs such as printing out black-and-white versions of a PowerPoint presentation for your reference. Printing multiple pages on one side is easy to do, as you’ll see in this Step-by-Step guide.