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5. How important are each of these topics when selecting printers/
copiers for your organisation?
(Please use a scale where 1 = not important at all; 2 = not particularly
important; 3 = Neither important nor unimportant; 4 = Important;
5 = Very important)
• Energy consumption profile
__________
• Energy saving features
__________
• Manufacture to high environmental standards
(eg ISO14001)
__________
• Energy efficiency certification (eg Energy Star)
__________
• Other environmental certification
(eg Blue Angel, Nordic Swan, EcoLabel)
__________
• Design for disassembly/recycling
__________
• Use of recycled materials
__________
• Embodied energy in the device
__________
• Embodied energy in consumables
__________
• Lifecycle analysis/product carbon footprint
__________
• Supply chain transparency
__________
• Supplier CSR standards
__________
• Consumables return service
__________
6. What benefits do you associate with taking environmental
issues into account when specifying goods and services?
• Energy efficiency ............................................................................................
o
• Reductions in waste ......................................................................................
o
• Lower cost .........................................................................................................
o
• Benefits to company reputation (CSR) ..................................................
o
• Other
(please specify)
• I don’t anticipate any benefits ..................................................................
o
7. To what extent are you prepared to pay a premium for a product
that performs well on the criteria you consider important?
• More than 50%................................................................................................
o
• 33 – 49%............................................................................................................
o
• 25 – 32%............................................................................................................
o
• 20 – 24%............................................................................................................
o
• 15 – 19%............................................................................................................
o
• 10 – 14%............................................................................................................
o
• 6 – 10%..............................................................................................................
o
• 1 – 5%.................................................................................................................
o
• I would not pay a premium.........................................................................
o
• I would expect such a product to cost less, not more.......................
o
8. What do you understand by the term Managed Print Services
(MPS)?
• The centralised management of fleet printers, copiers
and MFPs............................................................................................................
o
• The just in time delivery of consumables...............................................
o
• The outsourced management of all document output devices.....
o
• Other
(please specify)
9. Do you know what your organisation’s print costs represent as a
% of turnover?
o
Yes
o
No
10. Do you know if you pay per page?
o
Yes
o
No
11. To justify your organisation making sustainably based
improvements what savings to your operating costs would you
want to achieve?
• Please State
12.Which of the following best describes your company’s current
activities?
• We arrange carbon offsets for all activities on a
company-wide basis........................................................................................
o
• We arrange carbon offsets for some activities
(e.g. plane flights) on a company-wide basis.........................................
o
• We arrange carbon offsets for some activities, on a team
or department level.........................................................................................
o
• We arrange carbon offsets for a few activities, on the
initiative of individual employees or managers.....................................
o
• We don’t arrange carbon offsets for any activities,
to my knowledge..............................................................................................
o
• I don’t know.......................................................................................................
o
13.Which of the following are criteria your company prefers when
choosing offset schemes?
CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY
• “Gold standard” offsets..................................................................................
o
• Offsets independently verified by a respected third party...............
o
• Offset activities targeted in the home country....................................
o
• Offset schemes directly relevant to your own industry....................
o
• Offset activities targeted in the developing world..............................
o
• Offset activities with a social benefit
(e.g. based in lower-income communities).............................................
o
• Offset activities for which there is a ‘paper trail’ you can examine...
• None of these is important to my company.........................................
o
• Don’t know.........................................................................................................
o
14. Which of the following best describes your opinion ?
SELECT ONE ONLY
• My company’s environmental policies and actions are
entirely driven by cost/benefit analysis. If something makes/
saves money, they will do it, and if it does not, they won’t.............
o
• My company’s environmental policies and actions are
entirely driven by principle. If something seems to be the
‘right’ environmental thing do to, they will do it, and if it does
not, they won’t .................................................................................................
o
• My company’s environmental policies and actions are driven
by a mixture of cost/benefit analysis and principle.
Each decision is weighed on a balance of moral and cost/
benefit concerns ..............................................................................................
o
• My company is not involved in environmental policies and
actions – these issues play no role in decision-making ....................
o
• Don’t know ........................................................................................................
o
15. In your opinion, what is the most important environmental
challenge facing your company in the next 5 years?
• Don’t know ........................................................................................................
o
• We don’t face any environmental challenges .......................................
o
• Other
(please specify)
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for participating in the additional Telephone Survey)
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o
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o