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By Gail Nickel-Kailing on March 12th, 2010 - Comment
Dana Alan, vice president of sales for Bentley Graphic Communications, tells how she and her company originally got involved in sustainable print. Like many others, it was customer interest that got her started.
Bentley Graphic Communications is a high quality, sheet fed offset printer specializing in UV printing.
By Gail Nickel-Kailing on March 11th, 2010 - Comment
Congratulations to Coating Excellence International (CEI), Wrightstown WI, is the latest certified SGP Printer. CEI is a leading domestic converter of flexible packaging products.
By Gail Nickel-Kailing on March 10th, 2010 - Comment
UV technology is evolving almost faster than we can keep up. This year’s event had both technical sessions and business sessions, and it was clear that getting up and running with UV doesn’t stop at the plant floor. Training sales and customer service reps to sell the technology is as critical as installing a printer or curing unit.
Find out why “symposium” is the right word for events like this!
By Gail Nickel-Kailing on March 4th, 2010 - 23 Comments
Is FSC/SFI certification a sham? Is there really FSC-certified pulp in the FSC-certified paper you buy? What about recycled pulp? Can you trust anyone?
By Gail Nickel-Kailing on March 4th, 2010 - Comment
“We engaged a printer for the production of this piece that is 100% wind powered, carbon neutral, uses a waterless printing process, and is an EPA Green Power Partner and EPA Climate Leader. It was printing on FSC certified paper using vegetable-based inks.” Could you say that?
By Gail Nickel-Kailing on March 2nd, 2010 - 2 Comments
For the last 20+ years people have been expecting digital delivery of personal and promotional messages to be a challenge to the “monopoly” held by paper mail, but none of them reckoned with the recession that hit us in the middle of 2008.
Mail volume has dropped about 17% over the last 5 years, while the number of delivery points increased by 4%. Mail volume is expected to drop to 150 billion pieces by 2020. How is the US Postal Service dealing with these changes?
By Gail Nickel-Kailing on March 1st, 2010 - Comment
Why do corrugated boxes have to be tossed out after just one use? Dennis Salazar, President, and Lenora Salazar, Vice President, of Salazar Packaging, asked each other that very question.
And they developed a reversible box that turns inside out in seconds. Boxes don’t have to be thrown out because they’re ugly any more.
By Gail Nickel-Kailing on February 26th, 2010 - 4 Comments
Is plastic – PVC, vinyl, or other types – good for paper? During a recent Webinar, titled Alternative Papers and sponsored by PaperSpecs, the discussion got pretty hot about the use of plastics for making paper.
Speakers Wendy Jedlicka, author of Packaging Sustainability, along with Peter Nowack, founder of PrintLeadership, answered a long list of concerns. With permission from PaperSpecs, we’ve published the questions, their answers, and a link to the archived Webinar.
By Gail Nickel-Kailing on February 21st, 2010 - Comment
John Gagel, Manager of Sustainable Practices at Lexmark, and Jim Tocash, President of Close the Loop, talk about their partnership recycling plastic and ink from Lexmark inkjet cartridges. From this partnership came a pen made of recycled plastic and filled with recycled ink. A great example of “cradle to cradle” manufacturing.
By Gail Nickel-Kailing on February 18th, 2010 - Comment
Doreen Monteleone, Ph.D., Director of EHS, Membership & Special Projects of the Flexographic Technical Association, has been named the recipient of the 2009 William D. Schaeffer Environmental Award by the PIA. Dr. Monteleone also serves on the Board of Directors for the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership.
