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 Sharing information about your sustainability credentials with people who care is a faff. This is mainly because communications is a faff unless you are a marketing whizz or good at public relations. The problem for people who are rubbish at communications is where to start. It’s like when you … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Sustainability is vital for printing and publishing companies who want to make a difference and thrive. Improving environmental sustainability will also shape economic and societal sustainability. This much we know, but few organisations in our sector are taking an active sustainability lead, especially in the event space. Apart from … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner It’s being pushed hard and fast by the developer community as a big new market for digital printing. But printing companies have long since embraced direct to garment and direct to fabric printing. Their preferred printing method has, however, generally been screen printing. But digital printing adds a different … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Looking through a list we’ve got of nearly 1300 installations of new kit in the printing sector, a subtle trend becomes clear. Sustainability is increasingly cited as a benefit of new kit, especially over the last couple of years. Sometimes the claims are a bit dodgy, but there’s no … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner How do you know if the printing and publishing industries are getting more sustainable? Well you don’t, because we have no universal metrics or common references. But what we do have is a growing number of tiny little signs of improvement. When taken together they suggest we are indeed … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner The combination of regulatory pressure and customers who want to be able to tell a solid environmental story, drives sustainability in the printing industry. Regulatory pressure recently increased. Under the European Union’s (EU) Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation more per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner We all know how important bees are for the planet’s sustainability, but this has to be a first. Paper and packaging company DS Smith is using bees to monitor natural habitats at thirteen of its packaging plants in France. The question is why? DS Smith is a massive company … Read more
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