Here you will find blogs from Digital Dots and Verdigris covering technology and sustainability advances in the graphics industry over the last 25 years.
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner We recently came across a company that takes used textiles, including printed ones, and refashions them into new products. Founded by Rikke Thykier and Jamie Harris, Amolia is all about upcycling, using waste as the raw material for new products such as cushions, bags, accessories and even artwork. Amolia … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner We are pleased to announce that we are working in partnership with Inkish to spread the sustainability word. Founded in 2014 Inkish is media company dedicated to the printing industry, with outlets across the globe. It delivers stories and content for readers around the world, with critical views and … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Forever ago when desktop publishing was wreaking havoc across the prepress landscape, the graphics business underwent a massive shift. It was a time when the economics of prepress justified long print runs and a careless attitude to waste. It was a time when the printing and publishing industries were … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner And yet another ISO standard is in the starting gate and ready to run. This one is all about how you can assess the environmental sustainability of your company. It will be a useful tool in conversations with clients who want to know what you are doing to manage … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Sustainability legislation coming out of the European Union will have a profound effect on all links in print media supply chains. From books to labels, our industry is sadly not immune to these many and complicated rules. Getting up to speed with their expectations is just as sadly unavoidable; … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Can you even be bothered to read an explanation of what a Due Diligence System is? You probably think you’ve already got enough admin and systems in place and that a Due Diligence System (DDS) is over the top. You of course have an accounting department and human resources. … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Over the last twenty years or so a huge and complex ecosystem has grown up for writers. Thanks to prepress and digital printing advances everyone and their dog can claim to be a published author. And sometimes it feels like they do. Traditional publishers are awash with new authors … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner According to a recent study by Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) and Heidelberg the future of packaging is paper. Paper’s obviously preferable to plastics from a waste perspective, but paper’s sustainability for packaging may not be as simple as all that. The Future of Packaging 2030 study asserts that … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner The buying of printing plates used to be a matter of balancing price and quality expectations. The three main players, Agfa now Eco3, Fujifilm and Kodak, catered to a wide range of customers from commercial printing to newspaper printers. They offered, and still do offer, plates of undeniable quality … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner One of the world’s worst industries when it comes to negative environmental impacts is the textile business. The sector is notoriously water and energy hungry and it generates an astonishing amount of waste. If you look at primary materials use and greenhouse gas emissions, the textile industry is the … Read more