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What is the contribution of the printing ink to the overall carbon footprint of the printing process?

April 26, 2017carbon footprint contribution ink overall printing process

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What is the contribution of the printing ink to the overall carbon footprint of the printing process?

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Ink contributes 0.5% of the overall carbon footprint of the printing process where other components contributions are paper, 76% of the total carbon footprint; machine usage, 12.5%; transport, 6%; and plates 5%; in a calculation done by Manroland based on the total carbon life cycle including CO2 emissions from the production of the actual manufacture of equipment and materials.