Simple examples of this are fax cover sheets, confirmation sheets, and printer cover pages. Usually, either the information on these is unnecessary, or can be incorporated into the actual document. For copying, more copying 'on demand' can avoid a wasted inventory of copied documents that become obsolete. Because the costs of both the paper and the imaging are avoided, image avoidance has the largest savings. Another way to avoid images is to change way information is managed.
Accessibility includes finding the information, managing it, and reading it.
While these are quite effective, both the costs and other savings of electronic data management are usually well beyond the paper-related costs, but it can only help to highlight the paper costs to help motivate such changes and insure that they are implemented well regarding paper use. Image Reduction Image reduction reduces the area of an image so that more images can be put on the same area of paper. While some reduction can be done to reduce large images to regular size sheets of paper, a larger impact can be made by putting more than one 'page' of content on a side of a sheet of paper. This is called ' image combination ' on copiers and ' n-up printing ' on printers. Reducing font sizes, margins, and the use of 'white space' can also reduce the number of 'pages' a document uses.