mercredi 21 mai 2014

All About Sustainable Digital Printing

By Minnie Whitley


Public consciousness has been taken hold of by the issues of sustainability over the past few years. Like in any other industrial process, printing consumes energy and raw materials and waste is released as by products. In this case there is need to reduce the impact of the process and ensure that a sustainable digital printing is carried out in a more prudent manner.

The printing industry has come under scrutiny to adopt practices that are environmentally friendly especially as the buyers are becoming shrewd about giving support to suppliers and providers of services who have been eyeing on sustainability. The electronic media is now considered to be more sustainable than both the print and paper hence helping to continue in driving the attention away from it.

When production turns on, it is worth noting that neither the digital nor the conventional can claim superiority in environmental friendliness. Whereas the offset has taken up measures to clean up its effects of harmful chemicals while also minimizing its production on waste, the digital one is bringing up issues concerning specific consumables that are used specifically the inkjet which alerts an alarm on its capability to get recycled. It is well proven that that several ways of printing have an impact that concerns issues on the environment.

The digital technology has a lead in having a better place of removal of waste, disposing consumed paper at production and having the capacity to economically print only enough for interested recipients. This differs with the bulk print and issue approach of conventional that sees many prints going into waste.

Environmental concerns have been an issue of coming into agreement on the rules and decrees of the country over the last few years. This has currently changed in numerous ways as government intervention has reaped little success in keeping up with demands by the public, customers and even their wills that have occasioned to the adoption of environmental sustenance by the industry.

For a very long time the printing industry has been accused on issues concerning the environment. The printers for a long time as a result of solvent emission has had to comply with regulations on environment, contamination of ground water by effluent, waste paper among various other products that involve composite industrial chemicals and metals that are toxic that in most cases are collected and taken to plants that provide specialized treatment.

In a survey conducted in March 2011 to determine whether people perceived digital method being more environmentally friendly than the conventional printing, found out that the majority of the respondents preferred the digital one being friendlier than offset. They picked it on the basis that it prints only the amount that is required.

While sustainability is often a reaction to the requirements of these client it can also be proactively used to differentiate one business from another. The emerging business trends which are mainly based on models of going green may provide a return on investment that was not expected through operations that are more efficient. A sustainable operation is in most cases always an efficient procedure.




About the Author:



Aucun commentaire:

Enregistrer un commentaire