Many aspects of paper use can be measured or counted

There are a variety of reasons you may want to measure your paper use. These include:

Conducting an initial inventory, to help plan paper cutting actions.
Measurement to help justify the investment in better equipment.
Measurement after a change to see how much of a change has occurred.
Documenting success (or failure) so that others can learn from your experience, or to gain good public relations benefits.

In this area we answer the question Why Count Paper Use? and provide an overview of Inventorying Your Paper Use. We track paper from Paper Purchasing, pause to overview Image Counting, then on to Imaging Equipment.

Some paper goes to Mail and Shipping, some to Storage, but all eventually ends up at Disposal.

Finally, a summary reviews the counting area.

We use an imaginary company, "Clever, Inc." to illustrate many of the counting topics. You might use some of the figures from Clever, Inc. as a guide in estimating your paper use patterns when data for your organization are not available.

Why Count Paper Use?