Refurbished printer makes quality accessible
19 February 2014
The imagePRESS C7000VPe Canon has launched the imagePRESS C7000VPe factory produced new model (FPNM) digital colour press, designed to help organisations take a first step…
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Awards Idea Looking for a Home
27 January 2014
The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner OK so here’s the thing. We would like to see an environmental award initiative for the graphic arts…
Customers Starting to Care
17 January 2014
The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Pushing the value of environmental awareness has been tough over the last forever of business slump and economic…
Eco drive leads to HP
6 January 2014
Director of Colourset Tom Phelan A recent purchase of four wide format HP LX260 printers from CWE Solutions, is helping Nottingham-based Colorset to make great…
HP Indigo makes environmental developments
16 December 2013
The free take-back services for HP Indigo supplies that HP offers its customers is now expanded to include series four binary ink developer (BID) base…
Deinking
2 December 2013
The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Most people accept that recycling is a good thing. Take paper for instance: in 2011 70% of European…
High response to ISO 16759
25 November 2013
Strong interest in the new ISO 16759 standard for quantifying and calculating the carbon footprint of print media has been reported by Digital Printer contributor…
Print Saves Trees Campaign
18 November 2013
The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner We recently came across a US industry association representing 350 printers on the midAtlantic coast, campaigning with much…
Environmental PR Fail?
4 November 2013
The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Dear Sir or Madam, or Dear Laurel the emails from PR companies begin. Then follows a boast of…
Preaching Print’s Sustainability
14 October 2013
The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Preaching to the converted has always seemed a little self-indulgent. And since the converted already agree with you…
WWF’s Living Forests Project
9 September 2013
The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Printers and publishers are probably not all that fussed about what the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) gets up…
Print media carbon footprint standard published
12 July 2013
A new international standard that describes the framework for quantifying and communicating the carbon footprint of print media has been published. ISO 16759 is…
Getting uglier in Indonesia
8 July 2013
The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner. Despite protestations to the contrary the steady destruction of Indonesian rain forests continues. A few weeks ago Asia…
Pro-Design range becomes part of the Carbon Capture initiative
4 April 2013
International Paper, has announced that its flagship colour laser paper, Pro-Design range, is now being offered with Carbon Capture. The initiative was introduced by leading…
Don’t go paperless: go ‘Googless’
15 January 2013
In response to Google’s support of the ‘Go Paperless in 2013′ campaign, the following open letter has been sent to Eric Schmidt, CEO and chairman…