Benefits of adopting eco friendly printing practices

With the effects of global warming spreading its wings in almost each and every industry, the momentum of sticking to eco friendly practices is also spreading quickly. For many years the Government has been urging to follow steps that do not cause any adverse effects to the environment , the result has been that only few industries following environment friendly practices, this is also through the governmental efforts like the provision of certain incentives. There have also been certain cases where the government has been forced to impose certain penalties. Companies throughout the world are taking a step to invent certain practices do not cause any adverse effects to our environment and follow eco friendly business practices.

As far as the printing industry is concerned the "going green practices" are been followed not because of the government regulations but it is step taken by companies to be more competitive in the tough market place. For the printing industry following eco friendly practices is a mode through which they reduce their costs, increase the profits and this also acts as their unique selling proposition or USP.

This article will help you to know the various benefits which you can acquire by adopting eco friendly practices:

1) Decline in costs

A good step towards reaching the goal of environment friendly printing is elimination of the chemistry involved in plate making, it is to be noted that this elimination also reduces the costs of production. It has been estimated that 31 millions of chemistry are used in imaging printing plates and chemistry contributes to almost 30% of the costs and the hidden costs involved can make this percent go higher. The hidden costs include activities like processor maintenance, floor space and process control labor expenses.

2) Productivity Enhancement

The printing industry gains dual benefits by not only meeting the environmental standards but by this process it also it caters to the customer's objectives more efficiently. The chemistry free plate making process provides high consistency levels as it proves to be a more predictable process that reduces the lowers the plate making variables which are present in chemistry based plate processing.

Chemistry free process requires a simple water wash process after the imaging is done, thus saving time by the elimination of time consuming process of baking, processing and gumming.

The direct imaging offset solutions make the process more advanced by automating many press functions, thus it requires less operator time to run and maintain, reducing labor expenses and saving the labor time. They provide another benefit of providing less skilled workers to provide high quality printing, creating more efficiency.

These are just some of the benefits which can be derived by adopting eco friendly printing practices they also provide other benefits like

- Lower the blow out of volatile organic compounds which are responsible to an extent for the damage caused to the earth's ozone layer

- There more efficient utilization of the floor space

- It also leads to the conservation of water as the process of chemically contaminated waste water from the offset printing is removed.

- There has been a reduction in the paper wastage.

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