At the Legislative Intensive Session, held during the ninth annual Print Oasis Print Buyers Conference this week, print buyers from a variety of organizations came together to learn about a proposed bill that could aid in the printing industry’s economic recovery and promote environmental sustainability. The “Print Buyer’s Reduction in Taxes Bill of 2010 (PRINT),” [...]
Archives for Enviroment
A Glossary of Recycled Rhetoric
With all the various claims among paper manufacturers regarding the sustainability of their products, it’s hard to know what’s really going on. Doc wasn’t sure what the definition was for “flotation deinking” or “mill broke,” at least not until now. Thanks to a good basic glossary at What They Think, I’m now a lot better [...]
Green Printing Bill Unveiled – And Sure To Be Controversial
A proposed U.S. tax credit for “green” printing that was unveiled this week could lead to some interesting arguments among environmentalists, printers, paper mills, and print-buying organizations. As Dead Tree Edition reported last month in Federal Subsidy For Green Printing To Be Proposed, Print Buyers Online revealed the proposed legislation at a conference this week [...]
Print Grows Trees
In a world bombarded by electronic images and media, many forget the value of print to our society. It contributes in economic, social and environmental ways that have not been clearly represented to the public. ’Print Grows Trees’ concentrates on the environmental, because the misconception that if we stop using print we’ll save trees, has [...]
Eco-Friendly Update of the Three Rs of Printing
Today’s environmentalists won’t accept half-hearted attempts to greenwash printing projects. To capture their business, you’ll need to innovate, not just push ideas that were old and insufficient by the late ‘80s. Here are a few ideas for an eco-friendly update of the three Rs of printing. Reduce—Without Reducing Your Business You can help your customers [...]
It’s Easy Being Green: Trans-Promo
A common myth is that being green is difficult and costly; which couldn’t be farther from the truth. There are many opportunities to reduce your environmental impact while driving business results and growth. I can easily talk to the inherited environmental advantages of digital printing, but what’s one way you can make money and provide [...]
Sustainable packaging—what’s next?
Sustainable packaging continues to build momentum. If this concept is to solidify its hold on packaging and influence the way packaging professionals operate beyond the short term, a certain amount of balance is going to be needed where the three so-called “pillars” are concerned. The pillars, of course, are economic return, societal impact, and environmental [...]
The Paper Life Cycle Project
The Paper Life Cycle project is a multi-stakeholder initiative that provides key environmental information about the sourcing, production, use and end of life of paper so that buyers of paper and fiber-based products can make better-informed, more sustainable purchasing decisions. This online resource promotes greater understanding of the key issues throughout the paper supply chain, [...]
Unprecedented FESPA success for IGS UK’s Elements ‘green’ printer range
Following its successful attendance at FESPA, IGS UK has announced that the launch of its Elements green wide-format printing solutions met with unprecedented approval from end users and distributors world-wide. The company’s Atom printers, which incorporate Epson MicroPiezo TFP print-heads, combined with proprietary H2O water-based durable inks, Krypton Eco-Media materials and Chromium RIP, generated high [...]
Digital printing just got greener
In a world-first, HEXIS has launched a 100% latex digital print film in what is the first truely green step away from solvent-filled PVC. Our MD Noel, is fresh from the Hexis distributors conference in France, where the boffins wrapped a vehicle in this new latex film and he was amazed at the print quality and how conformable [...]
