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’ve been banging on about circularity as a means of mitigating climate change impacts for quite some time now. The truth is that it is very hard to think in a circular way when economies have evolved to be linear. Just trying to write that down is hard. Getting … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Why this should be the case is unclear, but new industry associations and consortiums are popping up nearly every day. Membership numbers is their life blood, ensuring that the organisation can collect enough in fees to support itself. But the inherent conflict between needing to keep membership fees low … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner The story of Ukrpol is one not just of survival during times of strife. This Ukrainian printing house has, through judicious technology investments, more than thrived since its founding in 1997. Today Ukrpol has over 23,000m2 of production space and employs almost 600 people at its two factories in Stryi, … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner It’s an old saying, but in this age of resource management and monetisation never has it had such resonance. Even in the graphics sector. The scrap metal business has come a long way since crusty old geezers drove horse drawn carts through the streets calling for scrap. Today’s printing … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner ISO’s committee for standards relating to the printing industry has approved a new project supporting the industry’s sustainability. The new work, ISO 19311, provides requirements for sustainability assessment reporting and the idea is to make it easier to evaluate sustainability reports, like for like. Currently it’s almost impossible to … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Automation has been a buzzword in the graphics business for many years. Automated preflight checking, colour management you name it software has it covered. We’ve talked about it a lot, but we haven’t given much attention to the importance of automation in remote hardware support. This goes beyond automatic … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner What does the European Union’s (EU) Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) mean to you? Your likely answer will probably be, not a lot, but that could be a mistake even if your business is not based in the EU. Much of the printing industry’s output is collateral work … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner As ISO standards writers, it’s always interesting to us to find that lists of industrial sectors rarely include printing. The British Standards Institute (BSI) for instance, boasts of standards for a range of categories but printing is not identified as one. Finding standards such as the ISO 12647 series … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Management systems standards such as IS0 9001 (Management Systems) and ISO 14001 (Environmental management systems) are amongst the International Standards Organisation’s (ISO) best sellers. But these documents are also the most onerous and demanding for companies going for formal certification. ISO 20121 is for sustainable event management systems. Since … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Sounds gripping and for most printing companies the GRI is just that. Not. But it not being gripping doesn’t mean that the GRI isn’t important, or that it will have no impact on the printing and publishing industries. The organisation behind the initiative is large and well supported and … Read more