Friendly Printing = Green Printing = Environmentally Friendly Printing ?
Mazyar Ekbatani – Monday, June 28, 2010 Eco-friendly, green printing and environmentally-friendly printing these days are being used as synonyms and they refer to any printing process that can help in reducing the negative environmental impacts of using printing equipment to put ink on paper for commercial or industrial purposes. The process includes utilizing trees that are grown through an eco-friendly forestry practice, to paper that is manufactured in an eco-friendly manner, all the way to the printing process that is done adhering to a certified environmentally-friendly printing process. In order to understand the green printing process, we can begin by first understanding the paper making process. There are 3 major steps involved in making paper: 1) Conversion of cellulose fibre that is in wood or recovered paper into usable fibres to produce pulp 2) Since most papers are white, the produced pulp is bleached to brighten it 3) Finally, the resulting pulp is turned into paper These
