The phrase "avoid printing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when instructing someone to refrain from producing printed materials or documents.
Example: "In order to save paper and reduce waste, please avoid printing unnecessary documents."
Alternatives: "refrain from printing" or "steer clear of printing".
They will go to any lengths to avoid printing an apology for this makes them look foolish and lose credibility.
They pointed out that I could avoid printing the coupons if I used the free Groupon app for iPhone or Android phones.
"The key is to avoid printing too much money and causing unacceptably high inflation, the way Germany did during its deleveraging in the 1920s," he says.
As airlines and security screeners work out the kinks in the system, it will become easier to avoid printing a boarding pass at all.
There, speedy Wi-Fi is offered to tens of thousands of participants so they can avoid printing out Rio+20 documents, and biodiesel generators power the million square feet of conference grounds.
But Mr. Duhalde said over the weekend that "we want to avoid printing more money" because doing so could lead back to the hyperinflation that crippled the Argentine economy during the 1980's.
This approach avoids printing and delivery costs but draws less advertising and circulation revenue.
Lasser avoided printing space opera, and several stories from Wonder in the early 1930s were more realistic than most contemporary space fiction.
Frank Colletti, vice president at Zurich, figures it saves $400,000 a year by avoiding printed reports.
I was unsure whether the workshop was about teaching sustainably or teaching about sustainability (both, it turns out) and what sustainable teaching could mean other than avoiding printed handouts.
Whatever the drawbacks of reproduction, professional calligraphers did not avoid print.
