Product environmental metrics for printers

Hewlett-Packard's Imaging & Printing Group (IPG) is charting a course towards environmental leadership in its markets. To do this, IPG must look beyond just satisfying the regulations and identify opportunities for groundbreaking improvement. Carefully designed metrics are necessary to guide design, chart progress and set goals in this effort. IPG's Environmental Strategy Team is leading an initiative to establish these metrics internally. This paper describes the development process the authors followed to construct the initial metrics, which are focused on the "carbon footprint" of products under development. The paper also discusses the lessons learned developing the initial metrics, the results achieved thus far, implementation details, challenges, and future opportunities for improvement.