A fact-finding survey of Epson sales revealed that college students print an average of 4 sheets of paper in their four-year student life.Although the trend of paperless offices is advancing rapidly in modern times, the reality is that a large amount of paper is still required.
The fact-finding survey was conducted in June 2018, targeting a part of 6 new employees of Seiko Epson and Epson Sales in 2017 and 2018.
According to the report, out of the average number of prints of 7,630, the largest amount used by purpose was 2,944 lesson assignments, 1,751 graduation thesis, 1,048 resumes, 798 seminars, and 556 reports.The contents copied were in the order of references, lecture prints, and past test questions.
As of the first grade, he printed more than 1 sheets on average, and it became clear that a large amount of printing is indispensable for student life without being biased by grade.
Comparing the students by liberal arts and science, the number of liberal arts was 7,463, while that of science was 7,920, and although there was no big difference, the number of science students printed slightly more.
As for printing problems, many people mentioned that the shared printers on campus were busy and waited, that they could only print in black and white even though they wanted to print in color, and that the ink in their home printer would soon run out.
Professor Makoto Ichikawa of the Graduate School of Humanities, Chiba University said, "It has been reported that paper media are superior to electronic media in terms of subjective readability and memory of what is read. The background is to read documents. There may be some familiarity with paper media as a tool for this, "he commented on the circumstances that required a lot of printing.
