| Go Green, Use Green, 100 percent Organic, or | | | | place to start in our quest to make more |
| Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle are common | | | | “green” choices. |
| catchphrases you see in bold prints and commonly | | | | Win-win Solution |
| hear from environmentally friendly groups in New | | | | Digital printing employs processes that involve more |
| York City. Despite being the most urbanized city in | | | | eco-friendly operations. Less waste is produced and |
| the U.S., New York has eco-friendly groups that | | | | recycled materials are used thus leading to minimal or |
| absolutely uphold the convictions and idealisms that | | | | no harm at all to the environment. It also |
| they promote. In fact, the principle they are | | | | encompasses the use of inks that do not utilize highly |
| endorsing is not their own responsibility, but each and | | | | volatile organic compounds, which are the primary |
| every one’s duty to protect our natural | | | | cause of air pollution as the compounds easily |
| resources. Everyone and everything is encouraged to | | | | evaporate at room temperature. With the use of |
| go green, including the printing industry. The | | | | environment-friendly print processes, less air |
| revolutionary transition to the computer age has | | | | emissions are processed and there is less material |
| likewise made a similar shift in how printing gets | | | | consumed. It is a win-win situation with digital printing. |
| done—prints made by the traditional offset | | | | Printing costs and wastage are reduced and at the |
| printing press versus new digital printing technology. | | | | same time elicit a positive impact to our environment. |
| Paving the Way for “Green” Digital Printing | | | | So go green with digital printing in New York. It will |
| Information technology brought us significant changes | | | | help conserve and preserve resources, and the Earth |
| in almost all aspects of our lives, including printing | | | | in entirety. |
| services that paved the way for the development of | | | | Go Green Act |
| digital printing. Environmental awareness has caused all | | | | Environmentally friendly groups in New York embrace |
| of us to find ways to have less of an impact on the | | | | the environmental responsibility that the digital printing |
| environment. Digital printing compared to traditional | | | | has introduced to the printing industry. The onset of |
| printing is a much less wasteful print process. While it | | | | digital printing displays the social awareness and |
| does not totally eliminate the need for traditional | | | | consciousness they have undertaken to avoid the |
| printing presses, digital printing provides a cost | | | | detrimental effects of pollution and depletion of |
| effective alternative which is more environmentally | | | | natural resources. Here is why digital printing is a go |
| friendly for businesses today. Digital printing offers | | | | green act.v The digital print process does not |
| high quality, fast turnaround printing for booklets, | | | | require the manufacture of a printing plate.v |
| postcards, brochures, catalogs, or business cards with | | | | The ink utilized in go green printers do not utilize |
| much less impact to the environment. In the past we | | | | highly volatile organic compounds that may cause |
| have all been guilty of overlooking the consequences | | | | birth defects and cancer.v It uses recycled |
| of the choices we make in our daily lives, but in the | | | | paper or post consumer waste products that saves |
| long run we must make more “green” | | | | landfill space and reduces energy and water usage in |
| choices. Digital printing is a more “green” | | | | the paper manufacturing process. |
| alternative to other forms of printing and a good | | | | |