--- id: 1032 title: Saving power of powerful printers date: 2018-07-01T17:14:46+00:00 author: xro layout: post guid: http://wp.realraum.at/?p=1032 permalink: /2018/07/saving-power-of-powerful-printers/ responsive_meta_box_designation: - responsive_meta_box_facebook: - responsive_meta_box_twitter: - responsive_meta_box_googleplus: - responsive_meta_box_text_linkedin: - snap_isAutoPosted: - 1530458086 snap_MYURL: - snapEdIT: - 1 snapTW: - 's:380:"a:1:{i:0;a:12:{s:2:"do";s:1:"1";s:9:"msgFormat";s:15:"%TITLE% - %URL%";s:8:"attchImg";s:1:"1";s:9:"isAutoImg";s:1:"A";s:8:"imgToUse";s:0:"";s:9:"isAutoURL";s:1:"A";s:8:"urlToUse";s:0:"";s:4:"doTW";i:0;s:8:"isPosted";s:1:"1";s:4:"pgID";s:19:"1013729835691233280";s:7:"postURL";s:55:"https://twitter.com/realraum/status/1013729835691233280";s:5:"pDate";s:19:"2018-07-02 10:23:21";}}";' categories: - english - Projekte - realraum News --- At home, my Samsung laser-printer uses 15W during standby. So, a few years back, in order to save power, I put it on a USB-controlled power-plug. Pretty soon I added a tiny script that would query cups if a print-job was queued and would switch the printer on and afterwards off again. It turned out to be a pretty effective power saving measure.