LeanPrint / Features
Minimize print costs
Save substantially on print costs with Adobe® LeanPrint, a software-only solution that reduces paper and toner consumption by an average of around 40%.* Track savings at the job, user, and group level with personal and organizational dashboards.
* as per Adobe lab tests
Save substantially
Save money, time, and the planet. Reduce the consumption of paper and toner by an average of around 40%* when printing typical office documents, thanks to patent-pending technologies from Adobe that automatically fine-tune formatting, colors, and layout at print time.
* as per Adobe lab tests
Save with existing printers
Save on your print jobs regardless of the printer used. Adobe LeanPrint is a software-only solution that provides plug-ins to common desktop applications. Just install it and start saving, without purchasing any additional hardware.
Save with all kinds of printing devices
Save regardless of the kind of printing device in use—inkjet or laser, personal or networked.
Measure savings instantly
Get a clear picture of the dollar savings for each job within the print preview, and instantly quantify savings in consumption of paper and toner. Motivate users with tangible evidence that they are, in fact, printing more responsibly.
Monitor personal savings with My Savings
Track and aggregate personal savings achieved over days, months, and years from within Adobe LeanPrint. Individual users can conveniently monitor their own statistics, providing an incentive to save.
Track organization-wide usage and savings
Track and control your printing from a single control center. Monitor all print jobs and costs as well as the savings from Adobe LeanPrint usage for individual users and groups. Get insights into printing trends to select and implement responsible print practices across your organization.
Block conventional printing
Maximize organizational savings on printing costs by preventing all or specific users from printing the conventional, wasteful way when printing from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
Print lean, clean, and green
Put more content onto fewer pages using less toner and reduce the environmental impact of your printing. Print optimally, yet maintain content integrity using innovative methods to redo the layout of documents and intelligent techniques to cut down toner consumption.
Unique method to optimize documents for printing
Print more compactly thanks to an innovative method that redoes the layout of documents when printing from popular applications and browsers. For every supported format, Adobe LeanPrint has defined an ideal print output that balances usability with reduction in paper and toner consumption.
Super Saver mode
Conveniently print-optimize DOC, XLS, and PDF documents with a single click using patent-pending methods to redo the layout of documents and intelligent techniques to cut down toner consumption. Reduce the number of pages printed without loss of content or readability.
Toner Saver mode
Take advantage of intelligent printing techniques to significantly reduce toner consumption without impacting the layout of your DOC, XLS, PPT, and PDF documents. Save toner regardless of whether you print in color or grayscale.
Clutter-free printing of web pages
Optimize web pages for printing with one click. Get a clean, easy-to-read printout without extraneous information like advertisements, headers, and footers.
Smarter printing of charts
Print your Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint charts and graphs using patterns instead of grays, retaining their meaning while significantly saving on toner usage.
Automatic font selection
Strike the perfect balance between saving paper and retaining readability of DOC and PDF files with the automatic selection of the optimum font size. Manually enlarge or reduce the font size as needed.
Save as you like
Set your desired lean, clean, and green printing preferences. Choose from a wide range of modes, including Gray in Super Saver mode to maximize your savings, and Color in Toner Saver mode to enhance readability while retaining the original layout.
Deploy, manage, and use conveniently
Make economical printing the default—simply deploy Adobe LeanPrint and replace the conventional, wasteful printing methods of supported applications. Be up and running quickly—the LeanPrint cloud-based dashboard* is easy to set up.
Economical print path for popular applications
Print the smart way from the applications you use most often—Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Adobe Reader and Acrobat, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. Print the same way as you always have, with Adobe LeanPrint replacing the conventional, wasteful way of printing.
Replace printing with leaner printing
Use Print, Quick Print, and Ctrl+P, the conventional ways to invoke printing, to access Adobe LeanPrint and replace wasteful printing with leaner, greener printing.
Quick LeanPrint option
Switch to the fastest, most optimized way to print. Print directly to your default printer in Toner Saver mode with just one click by selecting the Quick LeanPrint option.
End-of-page markers
Easily locate content in shortened documents using end-of-page markers inserted at the time of printing. Collaborate smoothly even when referring to long print-optimized documents, because all content is identifiable in the context of the original document.
Hassle-free printing from Excel
Eliminate the tedium of printing large tables or multi-sheet files in Microsoft Excel. Save the time typically wasted in formatting spreadsheets for printing, becaue Adobe LeanPrint does it for you. Work more efficiently with fewer pages to shuffle.
Quick selection of content for printing
Easily select the content to be more efficiently printed by specifying a page range in DOC and PDF documents or choosing the active sheet, entire workbook, or selections in XLS files. Customize the printing of web pages by excluding images or choosing to print only selected articles.
Speedy deployment
Be up and running quickly— the cloud-based Adobe LeanPrint dashboard* is easy to set up. LeanPrint has a small footprint and can be conveniently made available on users’ computers.
