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 Printers around the world should be paying attention to recent developments in the European Union (EU). This supranational partnership of 27 member states does business in 24 official languages across most of a continent and beyond. Besides the 449 million citizens the EU supports, EU companies do businesses with … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner It’s fair to say that people of a certain age in the printing industry can get a bit confused about software. This is not surprising: software is invisible, it’s something you’re told you have to have if your platesetter is to work efficiently. Software’s vital for your digital press … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner There’s lots of excitement about the market for digitally printed textiles. There are plenty of hungry manufacturers keen to talk to printers who want to get into this field. And there is a lot to say for using digital printing systems to print short run textiles. That’s good news. … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Printing is often demonised for taking a heavy toll on the environment, but strictly speaking this is unfair. The misconception is based on perceptions of paper waste, all those images of discarded newspapers floating down city streets. The waste problem is indeed real, but it is incorrect to accuse … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner It’s a fact that keeping up the enthusiasm for sustainability initiatives can be difficult. It’s not just that there are so many of them or that they are very often so complicated. The difficulty lies in understanding the implementation of clever initiatives and in measuring the results. This is … Read more
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