Cleaner, Greener, Better…Printing

As our clients already know, everything we do at Focus revolves around our philosophy of Cleaner, Greener, Better.

For quite a while now we’ve been fairly choosy when it comes to our process for any external printing that we undertake – such as stationery, promotional material, etc. Recently some of our clients have asked us about our sustainable printing guidelines and so we thought we’d publish them:

• The inks used are vegetable based, contain less than 1% mineral oils and are made from renewal sources;
• Where possible digital printing with toner based inks is utilised to avoid the unnecessary creation of metal plates and their associated chemicals;
• The paper stocks are sourced from well-managed sustainable forests and processed at mills certified ISO in environmental management;
• Where possible paper stocks contain at least 50% post consumer waste (recycled from being used before);
• The waste generated by the design and print process is managed and disposed of using sustainable processes;
• The print company understands and has a strong commitment to business sustainability and their role in the ’sustainable supply chain’.

We often use Wellington owned and operated print company, Service Printers for our printing requirements as they are not only committed to this process (and like us, members of the Sustainable Business Network), but are fantastic to deal with and have the same attention to detail we do!

Click on the image below to see our latest brand marketing card – printed, of course, according to our ’sustainable printing’ guidelines!