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Laurel Brunners Verdigris Blog: New Standard Supporting the Environmental Impact of Print
How do you make an environmental impact declaration for print? And why would you want to? These are questions most printers would prefer not to answer, but the second question is easier than the first: customers. Over the last few years big brands have become increasingly environmentally aware. This occasionally is because the top brass…
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Verdigris Blog: Sustainable Business Models
Bankers are not generally thought of as committed tree huggers, but where money is concerned anything is possible. So it is with JPMorgan Chase, a multinational banking monster that is the biggest bank in the USA and the sixth biggest worldwide. It has assets of some US$2.5 trillion including many in property and from a…
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Verdigris Blog: Why ISO 14001 Matters
ISO 14001 (Environmental management systems) is an ISO bestseller and for good reason. In enshrines good management practises, that help us all to protect the environment, and it makes sure a business meets regulations. But a key principle in this document is, that it requires an appreciation of the relationship between environmental aspects and environmental…
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Verdigris Blog: Eco-nomy
The marriage of ecology and economics is becoming increasingly obvious and necessary for business. As a result, developers are constantly moving to offer technologies that reduce product life cycle footprints, as well as perform more efficiently for their customers. In the graphics industry the most obvious example of this is digital printing which produces only…
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Verdigris Blog: LED Fever
Not a week goes by that we don’t hear of another digital printer manufacturer making the switch to LED curing technology for ultra-violet (UV) inks. In the digital printing arena this is most commonly for wide format digital print engines. UV-curable inks stick to pretty much any nonabsorbent substrate including paper and board, wood, PVC,…
Lees meerCreative signmaker Mcart can create anything now
Last year, Mcart was the first to invest in the Mimaki UJV55-320, a 3,2-meter roll-to-roll UV inkjet printer, installed by Mimaki distributor Dimix. The creative signmaker in Alblasserdam can create anything now – textile or foil, bigger in size than ever before. “It’s a super machine.” “We’re creative signmakers”, says Peter Wolff, director/owner of Mcart…
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Verdigris Blog: Sustainability reporting on the rise
Over the last few years we have seen a steady rise in the number of companies making an effort to report their sustainability credentials. This is an excellent trend, confirming that companies are taking responsibility for environmental impact seriously. Mostly this effort is in response to what shareholders and the markets expect, however over time…
Lees meerPRstory: The Promocompany invests in two new Mimaki production printers
The Promocompany, based in Ede, The Netherlands is a wholesale business that sports a 25-year reputation as a key player in promotional items. The business recently decided to insource printing and selected two Mimaki printers. Internet sales Founder of the Promocompany, Edwin Steinmeier, bet on the internet big time by selling over no less than…
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Verdigris Blog: UL Greenguard Certification is Important
The wide format digital printing sector has started to focus heavily on textile printing. This is especially true for on demand applications such as printed interiors and disposable or recyclable fashion, which could soon supplant fast fashion as a concept. Textile and packaging printing are the two areas of print where safety must absolutely be…
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Verdigris Blog: Print kiosks coming into their own
It’s been clear for a couple of years that technology is no longer the primary driver for growth in the graphics industry. Technology is still important, obviously, but these days it is print applications that tend to push innovation the hardest. One such application is the idea of distributed print buying via the cloud, something…
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Verdigris Blog: Press Vercors’ Environmentally Friendly Digital Cutting System
A small company located in central southeastern France is seeing environmental improvements through the use of a digital cutting system. They’re using it to do specialist cutting on demand for both digital and offset printing workflows. However the Polar digital cutting machine is not the start of Press Vercors’ environmental journey. Since 2004 Press Vercors…
Lees meerLaurel Brunners Verdigris Blog: Chinese Developer CRON Reduces Ink Waste to Almost Nothing
Intelligent resource management is what sustainability is really all about, whether you are a research scientist or a provider of technologies for graphics production. Brainy people keep coming up with new tools to help graphics professionals to improve process control, cut waste and reduce resource usage. Digital printing has stolen a lot of the sustainability…
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