Two Years in a Row
American Printer, August 2009
American Printer, September 2008
Environmental Awards
American Printer, 9/1/2008
What They Think, July 2008
Before greenwashing becomes a federal offense
By Gail Nickel-Kailing -- What They Think, 7/14/2008
Graphics Arts Online, June 2008
Sparks Fly at Green Conference
By Bill Esler -- Graphic Arts Online, 6/20/2008
Graphics Arts Online, May 2008
Mills Fear Inkjet Won't Recycle
By Mark Vruno -- Graphic Arts Online, 5/1/2008
American Printer, April 2008
Making the Green Scene
What made Mercer Color want to become a green printer.
By Katherine O'Brien--American Printer, 4/1/2008
Print CEO, April 2008
California Bad Dreamin
Panelists at WOA “Offset and Beyond 2008” Urge Printers
to Get Ready for Low-VOC Solvents
by Patrick Henry
INGEDE Press Release, January 2008
Inkjet Prints Are Not Deinkable - Newspapers and Direct Mail
by Inkjet Head towards Ecological Dead End
By INGEDE, 1/2008
Graphics Arts Online, March 2007
How Print Got Green - Sustainable operations are good for the environment.
But they can be even better for business, as 181 FSC certified printers are learning.
By Lisa Cross, Senior Editor -- graphic arts online, 3/1/2007
The Carbon Neutral Myth Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins
By Kevin Smith, February 2007
- 1981- Started to recycle
- 1985- Started to use recycled paper
- 1986- Soy or Vegetable based inks
- 1990- Alcohol Free
- 1991- Completed digital to film workflow
- 1992- Land not used for plant or parking is a company garden and farmland
- 1996- Eliminated the need for aqueous coating to help seal wet ink
- 1997- Computer to plate
- 1997- Joined Co-op America
- 1997- Treat plate developers to remove silver and have PH to 7.5-8.0
- 2000- Vegetable based wash up
- 2001- Inkjet used only for high end proofing
- 2004- Eliminate daily ink fountain clean up
- 2005- Less than 35 g/L voc wash up
- 2006- Decreased or eliminated the need to clean blankets between jobs
- 2006- Reduced or eliminated use of IR dryers
- 2006- Eliminated the need to dump fountain tanks
- 2007- Invited by the PIA/GATF to be a member of the Sustainable Green Printing Steering Committee. Now called the SGP.
- 2007- Working on a plan to heat and cool shop with water
- 2008- Replacing all lighting fixtures with T8 type lights to reduce power use by up to 100 kw per day.
- 2009- For the Second Year in a Row we have earned an Environmental Excellence Award from American Printer.
- 2009-Staring our eighteenth year of beta testing renewable consumable products for the pressroom.
