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August 22, 2011

Printing green in 2011

Category: Print — Tags: , , — dave @ 8:10 am

Printer printing with green paperWhether you are an environmental group, just interested in being more environmentally friendly or somewhere in the middle, your printed material can and should reflect your intentions.

Unless you’ve used them before, you might be surprised how modern green printing techniques are.

Recycled papers are great for the environment, but these days when practically everyone is using them, it’s almost cliché.

Have you ever tried printing on hemp paper? How about sugar cane, bamboo, mango, banana or coffee? The paper is made by mixing the plants with post-consumer waste.

Now that you have fancy eco-friendly paper, what about the printing itself?

Soy inks, which are made from soybeans, have many advantages. First, they’re not made with petroleum like traditional inks. That makes your products even easier to recycle. They are also said to have more accurate colors.

Even the printing itself can be green. How about hiring a printer that runs off of solar power? imPress Printing can help you find a company that uses renewable energy sources.

And make sure you tell your customers what you’ve done on the printed materials.

Want to give your customers an additional incentive? How about offering a donation to an environmental group for each campaign response?

Remember, your green initiatives shouldn’t be limited to printing. Earlier this year, we told you about some green products to make your business stand out and show your green side.

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February 8, 2010

Does Anybody Else Want to Print Greener?

Category: Print, Promotional Items — Tags: , , , , — Sarah @ 8:41 am

We have a hunch that you’ve done something lately to make your life a little more green.  Maybe you toted your coffee in a reusable mug instead of getting a foam cup.  Or maybe you really went for it and started cruising around in a new hybrid car.  No matter what steps you’ve taken to help Mother Earth, we’re sure she’s pumped that you’re doing something to show that you care about her.

And we can help you do even more.

At imPress, we’re totally into finding earth-friendly printing solutions.  And you won’t believe some of the awesome ways we can help you take your printing to the green side.

Print It Up Recycled Style

It’s no secret that the easiest way to make your printing more eco-friendly is to print on recycled paper.  But recycled paper has really come a long way since it was first introduced.  Nowadays, even if your project requires fancy schmancy glossy paper, we can hook you up with paper that’s 50% recycled.  And for your everyday print jobs that don’t require paper with a coating?  You can actually use paper that is 100% recycled.  That’s 0% non-recycled.  And that’s wicked green.

Paper You Can Plant in Your Garden – For Real!

We really dig our seeded paper.  This product is completely biodegradable paper with real seeds embedded in it.  We’re not kidding.  If you plant this stuff and water it, flowers will grow.  We’re talking about forget-me-nots and other lovely blossoms.  We’ve used this paper for everything from bookmarks to invitations.  And as a result, there is less trash cluttering the landfill and there are more pretty flowers in the world.

And Don’t Forget the Promo Items

We’ve been talking about some pretty cool eco-friendly paper innovations, but we can also help you out if you’re in the market for promotional items that make the earth happy.  One super little product we can get for you is a promotional pen made from recycled cardboard.  Order some of those babies, and you can sleep better at night knowing that your promo pen isn’t going to be taking up space in a landfill for the next millennium.

Recycled Pen

And that’s just the beginning.  If green printing solutions and promotional items are a priority for you, give us a holla.  We’ll schedule a little conference call between you, us, and good Mama Earth, and together we’ll make some decisions that work for all of us.

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October 12, 2009

Excited By Stock

Category: Print — Tags: , , , , , — Sarah @ 8:37 am

There’s glossy paper, matte finish paper, paper gumbo, paper kabobs, sweet and sour paper, paper and cheese sandwiches, paper stew, paper pie, paper soup…

We love paper stock.  We love it as much as 1980’s dads love short shorts and fanny packs.  And today we’d like to give you some insight into our passion for paper through a poem.

Ahem.

Paper stock, paper stock, it’s you that we heart.

We love you so much, we don’t know where to start.

We love glossy paper that’s smooth to the touch.

We also love using matte paper so much.

We love different brightnesses, we love different weights,

We love paper from trees grown in all fifty states.

Our crisp photo paper gets us bothered and hot,

And recycled paper always hits the spot.

In a river of paper we’d love to be floating,

And don’t get us started on aqueous coating.

The texture, the color, the thickness, the smell,

We love paper in all different sizes as well.

From slightly translucent to truly opaque,

If it’s paper, we love it, and there’s no mistake.

Paper makes us smile when we’ve started to sob,

And we choose the best paper for any print job.

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