(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)