The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

dead tree
dead tree edition

    Paper.

   Use of this term emphasises the waste of natural resources and
   limited features available from the printed form of a document
   compared with an electronic rendition.

   E.g. "I read the dead tree edition of the Guardian
   (http://guardian.co.uk/) on the train".

   See also tree-killer.

   (1999-11-03)