Saturday, June 26th, 2010
From left: Jim Mikol (Leo Burnett Worldwide), David Mastervich (U.S.Postal Service), Jim Dunn (Heidelberg USA), Joanne Vinyard (The Print Council), Ben Cooper (The Print Council), Julie Higgins Schmidt (Xerox), Molly Foshay (Sappi Fine Papers Norh America). On June 24th, The Print Council brought the sixth edition of its “Print Delivers” series ...Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
The ISO Technical Committee overseeing graphic technology standards (ISO TC 130) has put out a call for experts for a new task force investigating Carbon footprinting in the printing and publishing industry. The task force was formed at a meeting held on October 26th in Beijing. The task force will be ...Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
A couple of months ago, a representative from some public interest group rang my doorbell and tried to get me to sign some petition or other and give them money. I declined, not necessarily because I disagreed with their positions, but because I refuse to encourage door-to-door canvassing. I told ...Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
The Sustainable Print Systems Laboratory (SPSL) of the Rochester Institute of Technology is conducting an industry survey on sustainability metrics and measurements. The goals of this survey are to establish a baseline of the current state of adoption and implementation of sustainability practices within the print/communications industry. The goals of this ...Monday, February 9th, 2009
Today WhatTheyThink announced the WhatTheyThink Environmental Innovation Awards. A new awards program created to recognize graphic communications services providers that are making real and concrete contributions to innovation, implementation, and communication of environmental solutions. In total five awards will be will be presented to industry leaders who demonstrate leadership and environmental ...Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Dutch marketing and communications company Spranq has developed a typeface they claim can save up to 20 percent of ink costs by reducing the amount of ink used on a page. Here's what it looks like: the developers say: The Ecofont is developed by SPRANQ, based on a hunch of Colin Willems. We ...Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Part Mr. Science, part Jeremiah, and part super policy wonk, Don Carli has spent the last 10 years spreading the message of sustainability throughout the printing industry in a one-man avalanche of wake-up facts and shake-up statistics. He brought his green-bannered crusade to New York University last night with a ...
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