I’m a fourth year in college so I’ve had my share of guilt every time I had to print out pages and pages of notes and such. But for almost two years now I haven’t had to purchased any new white paper. I save all my old papers from previous quarters and go through and save the ones with one whole blank side. I also go through bins from work, school, and my house mate’s and rescue whatever pages I can. I call these “printable whole pages” and use them to print things like notes, info, and whatever I could get away with. I save my new white pages for only formal things like essays and resumes. Remember to take out any staples and don’t keep pages that are too wrinkled because they can get jammed in your printer and cause a mess. And I always print on “fast draft” to prolong my ink cartridges. Also if you have lots of pages to print out, put multiple pages onto one page to crunch the numbers down. See below.
Now I also save “printable half pages.” which I use to print out shipping labels for product orders on Etsy and such.
