Domtar Helps Buyers Track Paper's Trail from Mill to Market
Domtar Corporation launched its “Paper Trail” online environmental tool Tuesday to let customers see the environmental impact of the paper they order and understand what it takes to make it. Actually, you don’t have to purchase paper to use the tool at www.domtarpapertrail.com. You can input the name of the Domtar product you’re considering and […]
Typographic Lounge Furniture!
TABISSO is a French design company focusing on high-end, typographic lounge furniture. Their chair line includes letters A-Z and numbers 1-9, and the coordinating floor lamps cover more than 20 punctuation marks. via Typographic Lounge Furniture from Tabisso | Design Blog | Design.org. Related articles The Best Furniture for Typography Nerds (neatorama.com) Communicative Furniture – […]
The Recycled Paper Water Container
Designer Andrea Ponti has created an interesting concept for the Milan Expo 2015. The Life is a water container, designed to be used for one day and then recycled again. Each one is made from natural cotton with a layer of recycled paper, free from toxic chemical ink and adhesives that can’t be recycled. It […]
New Publication Paper Price Monitor
by Terry L Choate Jr I have found, throughout the course of my career, that unless publishers have a resource to utilize in which to track accurate paper pricing, many times they find themselves over-paying their printer for the paper that they are consuming and being billed for. I think that while many printers try […]
Infographic: Spam Has The Carbon Footprint of Estonia
Spam takes electricity to produce and send, and electricity usually entails lots and lots of coal. Add this to the list of reasons spam is the World’s Most Annoying Modern Invention: It destroys the Earth. According to a new infographic by Antonio Lupetti for Woork Up, spam spews more than 20 million tons of CO2 […]
Q&A: Fiber Testing, Paper, and the Lacey Act
Answers to frequently asked questions about fiber testing, a technology that can help find potentially illegal wood in the paper supply chain. In November 2010, WRI posted “Risk Free? Paper and the Lacey Act” in which we discussed using paper fiber testing to find potentially illegally harvested wood in paper products purchased in the United […]
Millcraft Paper: The Recyclability Equation
The latest issue of Down To Earth (IP’s look at environmental issues and trends) is out. It asks the question “How do you fit in the recyclability equation?” At first I am thinking, ok aren’t we all pretty well versed on recycling by now? Then I am reminded by how many misconceptions are out there. […]
Sappi Announces European Price Increase for Specialty Products
Sappi Fine Paper Europe said that it will increase prices for its specialty products in European and overeseas markets by 8% for deliveries as of November 1. The increase follows an earlier one by Sappi this year as demand for specialty products remains strong. “Our first price rise has barely compensated for the extraordinary cost […]
Video: How ink is made
If you’ve ever wondered about the work that goes into making the inks we use for printing, then the video above should be an eye opener. It’s not just a case of mixing colors and pouring it into a tin/cartridge. Ink making is a both science and an art. The Printing Ink Company allowed the […]
US sets triple-digit duties on China paper-industry
The United States has set combined duties ranging up to 313.8 percent on coated paper from China and duties of up to 38 percent on the same product from Indonesia, a top Asian paper exporter said on Tuesday. “While we are disappointed … we remain confident that the entire trade case will be thrown out […]
Greener Printing for Authentic Marketing Communications
Marketing is at the heart of every small business. It is almost universally cited as the number one challenge for small businesses, and is often the highest discretionary expenditure for most small businesses. Many times print advertising is sworn off by green businesses, due to the lingering doubts about the forestry industry and the excessive […]
The 2010 Inkjet Ink Report
Inkjet printing has enjoyed excellent growth during the past decade. A look at how the mix between conventional and digital printing technologies has changed at major trade shows such as drupa and IPEX clearly shows this trend. Having taken a large chunk of the screen market, there is every indication that digital will soon take […]