Green print
Think of the hundreds of times a day we touch paper, newspapers, cereal boxes, toilet paper,
water bottle labels, parking tickets, streams of catalogs and junk mail, money,
tissues, books, shopping bags, receipts, napkins, printer and copier paper at home
and work, magazines and to-go food packaging. If you Look around you, you'll find plenty of printed materials, from business cards to brochures to books. Printing words and images on paper may seem like one of the more environmentally benign things you do.
If you examine the life cycle of printed matter, from turning trees into paper through the chemicals involved , professional printing takes on a decidedly non-green hue.
GREENING your DESIGN AND PRINT
Below are a few simple tips on how you can make some healthy contributions to sustainability. These tips will help turn your design and print-related activities into eco-friendly choices, while maintaining the quality of your project:
- Conserve a tree, institute a PDF workflow.
- Recycle, reduce, reuse.
- Create a Web portal for your customers to submit print jobs online.
- Optimize production techniques through JDF (Job Definition Format) to eliminate scrap, error and waste.
- Forego paper proofs for online proofing and approvals.
- Cut down on junk mail with variable data publishing for more targeted marketing.
- When leaving the office, be sure to power down your equipment.
- Sustainable Packaging, Choose environmental friendly paper and adhesives.
- There's no need to fly to meetings if you can join online.
- Print Only What You Need.
- Spare the Ozone; Review Your Print Projects Digitally.
- Choose Eco-Friendly Inks.
- Be Creative, Consistent and Cost-Efficient.
- Distribute closet to client and then Print.
- Consider the environmental impact of your direct mail campaign.
- Replace your light bulbs with eco-friendly, longer lasting alternatives.Use Biodiesel In Your Delivery Fleet.
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