dimanche 22 mars 2015

Digital Printing That Is Eco Friendly

By Lelia Hall


For as long as man could read there has always been some printing going on. Printing can be traced back to the hieroglyphics age where man used to draw on stone to communicate and record memoirs in caves. This type of prints basically involved a paint brush a dye and a surface where one could print. This eventually changed when man started printing their messages on script then this method eventually changed to modern day prints. With the modern day concern about the environment, it has lead to the apprising of digital printing that is eco friendly.

To stick up to the trail manufacturers of paper and paper based products, they are creating products that meet environmental certification; this includes the manufacture of post consumer paper. This is recycled papers. This cuts down the number of trees that have to be harvested in order to make the paper thus saving our forests. This gives the firms product that are environmentally safe.

The amount of paper available for reuse is in so much quantity for reuse such that it litters the environment. The recycling of these papers is an advantage to the manufacturers, printers and also the public in general. This is because the manufacturers will have a readily available raw material that is eco-friendly which will make printing cheaper and also eco friendlier. To the public there will be less litter to stumble upon in form of paper.

As a measure to become more environmentally friendly firms are embracing the use of modern technology to reduce the number of print they produce. Instead of using printed letters they use emails to convey their message and instead of sending business cards they utilize the use of short message services. This use of technology drastically reduces the amount of print produced by the firms to a minimal level thus saving the universe.

The process of manufacturing paper is highly dependent on chemicals since the raw material is wood and chlorine. A reduction in manufacturing of paper proportionately leads to a reduction in levels of chemicals emitted into the atmosphere. The amount of chemicals required to print if reduced also makes printing more eco friendly.

In the early days the amount of power that was used in printing was quite an amount and the production of energy had a denting impact on environment. The development in technology of printers saved the eco system a huge task since the new age printers use a minimal energy thus a saving the environment a dent because the production of the power in case it was during the old error would have had a harder impact on it.

The amount of ink used cannot be ignored this is because it makes the writing visible. A reduction in the amount of ink used in printing has also proved to be a very eco friendly move since less chemicals are used.

Since print media forms part of our lives its reduction will be hard to ensure but to protect the environment the stake holders have come up with the aforementioned methods to be eco friendly.




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