Top Ten Green Printing Practices
How can a printer “green” their business? First by caring, then by ensuring their operations exceed environmental regs, adopting pollution prevention and resource conservation best practices. Here are some examples of what you can do to run your press while carefully watching how you impact the enviroment. And by the way, some of these practices will also save time and money - you just can’t beat that.
Top Ten Green Printing Practices
- Computerize pre-press operations
Eliminates photochemicals
Saves water and energy - Establish a solvent recycling program
Saves material
Reduces air pollution - Use alcohol-free printing
Impoves air quality
Improves worker health and safety
Reduces chemical use - Print on “treeless” and recycled content papers
Saves tree, energy, and water
Encourages new agricultural development
Keeps paper out of the landfill - Educate customers on green printing
Making clients aware of green alternatives ensures printers produce a greener products
Helps in pollution prevention, compliance, resource conservation - Use low VOC inks
Reduces air pollution
Improves employee safety - Sequence print jobs by ink color
Saves ink changes, labor, ink waste - Establish inventory control
Reduces waste to landfill, saves money - Communicate without paper
Cuts cost and use of paper and solid waste
Saves time, postage, and/or fax costs - Use energy efficient equipment
Saves energy and money