>>You do know that the :-) indicates I was kidding right? As a software manifacturer, this issue is of interest to me. What do you think about on-line documentation that allows you to print the manual if you want to?
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>The only efficient way out to save the trees from us is to ban printer production (or paper altogether). I remember having designed some things to be on screen only - and then found users doing regular PrintScreen on that. No matter what we do to put as much info on screen, someone will feel more comfortable using a hardcopy. How could we stop them at all?

I find that workers in government and defense have the feeling that if it isn't on paper, it doesn't exist. These people might stop printing if you give them systems so fast that they can navigate big client-server databases as if they were on the desktop, and monitors with resolution approaching that of today's printers. It is also a management problem. If people in different offices are going to share data without passing paper around, they have to get together and agree on what the application will contain. In my office that is hard to get done.