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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (05 January 2017) [foldoc]:
tree-killer
(Sun) 1. A printer.
2. A person who wastes paper. This epithet should be
interpreted in a broad sense; "wasting paper" includes the
production of spiffy but content-free documents. Thus,
most suits are tree-killers.
This term may derive from {J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the
Rings"
(http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/SF_resource_guide/sfrgft.htm)}.
in which Treebeard the Ent uses it to refer to the orcs'
master, Saruman of Isengard. Saruman represents, among other
things, technology at its most misguided.
See also: dead tree.
[Jargon File]
(1999-11-03)