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 Sadly sustainability reporting is falling down the priority list for many companies. They realise it’s hard, complicated and expensive. They also realise they’ll never be completely squeaky clean in terms of their environmental sustainability. Where’s the surprise in that? Sustainability reporting is inevitably challenging, because sustainability is a complex … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Understanding the basics of what is going on with the European Union’s (EU) circular economy plans is unfortunately a must for printing companies. It’s annoying to have to bother with it, but environmental sustainability is central to the EU’s plans for the future. That sharpens your customers’ focus on … Read more
The Verdigris blog by Laurel Brunner Drupa 2024 seems like forever ago, but it has been barely a year since the show’s doors closed. One of the most impressive introductions for environmental sustainability came from Kodak, with its sixth generation Sonora Ultra process-free plate. The environmental sustainability benefits of process free plates is obvious: you … Read more
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