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Manufacturers of digital printing presses have been eyeing up the textile market for a while. Both direct-to-garment (DtG) printing and the printing of textiles for other purposes have been attracting attention. This makes sense given the range of technologies available and the dynamism in the digital printing business: everyone’s looking for that next killer application. Textile printing may well be it.
The graphics industry has had a long and mostly affectionate relationship with Apple Computer. The company’s technology was one of the key foundation stones of the desktop publishing revolution (DTP) in 1984, along with Aldus PageMaker and the Adobe PostScript page description language that is the antecedent of PDF.
Kodak has been running the Sonora Plate Green Leaf Awards for the last six years, despite other distractions and challenges. The awards underscore how seriously Kodak takes it’s environmental commitment and how important it is for this industry to raise its sustainability game. The Sonora Green Leaf awards go to printing companies around the world who use the Sonora processless printing plate and are “leaders in adopting sustainable practices”.
Plastic packaging is changing at breakneck speed. Reduction in its use is high on the European Union’s (EU) agenda and big brands are looking for alternatives. They need to satisfy environmentally aware shareholders and customers and find alternatives to plastic packaging. But none of the steps taken so far is quite so radical or so expensive as Marks & Spencer’s (M&S) latest plan. It’s going to impact packaging converters both in the UK where it is being trialled over three months, and in other M&S locations around the world if it gets fully rolled out.
We all know that we should be doing more to reduce environmental impacts, but how to go about doing it is not always so simple. In the graphics industry we rely on our industry associations for leadership, but it isn’t easy to lead on a topic like the environment. It’s also not easy to know how to communicate the environment and sustainability’s importance to members, or where to start even.
