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Digital Dots is an independent graphic arts research group specialising in digital prepress, printing and publishing technologies. The company is a collection of like-minded consultants and professional journalists with decades of experience working in the graphic arts industry. We publish a range of articles and reports and we also manage The Verdigris Project.

WWF’s Living Forests Project

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The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Printers and publishers are probably not all that fussed about what the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) gets up to, unless it involves commercial projects. However amongst the WWF’s many worthy efforts is the Living Forests Project. It’s interesting for various reasons, not least of which is the fact … Read more

Ricoh First Company to Attain ISO 16759 Accreditation

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The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner It is great news to hear that Ricoh has achieved accreditation to ISO 16759 for the Ricoh carbon calculator. ISO 16759 (Communicating and calculating the carbon footprint of print media products) is a framework methodology that provides developers with the information necessary to create sound and reliable carbon … Read more

Clean Up That Mess!

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The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner When we were living at home with our parents we heard it, and when we have children of our own we speak or even shout it. A messy home is bad enough. But a messy workplace is even worse because it reflects how little a business cares for … Read more

Taking the IT

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The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Getting rid of electronic stuff that is no longer cost effective is a major problem for all users of digital technologies. There are only so many relations on whom you can offload your creaking mobile phones and decrepit laptops. When it comes to bigger kit such as servers … Read more

Green Shoots or Are You in the Weeds?

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The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner If you’re in the northern hemisphere, are you enjoying sleepy summer days, when not much seems to be happening? Or perhaps you’re struggling through cold and rain in the southern hemisphere. Either way your business hopefully is part of the busy cohort that is helping to produce signs … Read more

Sustainability Policies Reaching Far and Wide

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The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Companies who reckon that the environment and sustainability are not high on corporate agendas are missing an important trick. Actually there is no trick to it, because sustainability policies add value as well as saving money for the business. According to McKinsey & Co, a consultancy, sustainability is … Read more

How Colour & Workflow Management Help Build Sustainable Businesses

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The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner It’s been clear for years that digital technology has massively revolutionised the prepress industry. But for some printers and publishers of a greenish hue, prepress and digital process management are also tools for reducing their environmental impact. You may wonder, how so? The obvious answer is that digital … Read more

De-inking Innovations

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The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner It looks like a spelling mistake but adsorption de-inking is real and apparently could be a very effective alternative to flotation de-inking. If it works, adsorption de-inking could be another positive step in the environmental sustainability of the printing and publishing industries. De-inking is one of those touchpaper … Read more

Getting Uglier in Indonesia

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The weekly Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Despite protestations to the contrary the steady destruction of Indonesian rain forests continues. A few weeks ago Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL), one of Asia’s larger pulp and paper companies requested the FSC to withdraw their Chain of Custody certificates (COC). A COC confirms that wood and … Read more