Get Advantages of Eco-Printing with Green Graphics and Printing

Green Graphics and Printing — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:42:19 +0000

Eco-friendly printing has gained popularity in the corporate world as it limits waste production in printing and prevents harm to the environment. Companies that are going green play an important role in reducing the hazardous impact on environment by adopting green printing services. More and more companies buy organic products based on vegetable inks and recycled papers rather than using non-recycled paper. Eco-printing offers a unique way of printing that leaves a positive impression on the customers that they are associated with an eco-friendly brand.

If you are looking for a printing company that provides eco-friendly printing then GotGreenPrinting.com is the right choice for you. GotGreenPrinting.com is a one-stop source for customers who want to buy printing products that are made with eco-friendly material like soy based inks and reprocessed paper. Printing material used by the company in printing processes is recyclable and FSC certified. With green printing services offered by Green Graphics and Printing, businesses have started recognizing the benefits of eco printing and the harm of traditional printing techniques. All the products are printed with the vegetable based inks with impressive UV coatings that are completely natural.

Choosing eco-printing over traditional printing makes good business sense and also puts less stress on the environment. GotGreenPrinting.com provides full-color prints that look elegant and give a professional touch to all office stationery. Customers also prefer to choose eco-friendly products as these products are made from high quality material that is highly durable. Also, the eco-printed products are much more affordable as compared to products that are made from traditional inks and paper. By using these products you can add a new facet to your business and attract more customers. To know more about the products and services offered by the company, you can visit www.gotgreenprinting.com.

Preserve Environment with Environmental Friendly Printing

Green Graphics and Printing — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:39:56 +0000

With the idea of “Going Green”, printing companies are taking the initiative to save the environment by using environmentally friendly printing processes. More and more businesses are availing eco-friendly printing services to go one step further in saving the environment. The eco-friendly initiative also adds to their brand value as customers prefer companies that use eco-friendly products. Green printer companies make use of recycled paper rather than non-recycled paper in the printing process which is a great contribution in saving trees and reduce the waste materials produced during traditional printing.

Green Graphics and Printing (www.GotGreenPrinting.com) is the most reliable company offering environment friendly printing services at the most affordable prices. The company was started with the aim of providing the finest quality printing services without causing any harm to environment. Offering a perfect combination of best prices and eco-friendly services, the company has helped many small and large business firms in adopting eco-friendly products. At GotGreenPrinting.com, the environment friendly printing processes use soy or vegetable based inks which practically zero levels of VOCs. Ecofriendly printing material used in printing of different products helps preserve our environment from harmful chemical substances.

GotGreenPrinting.com is a leading green printer and they offer printing services for a wide variety of products such as brochures, business cards, flyers, presentation folders and lots more. Customers can choose from a large array of templates available in different sizes online or they can also customize them according to their needs and preferences. Their experts help you in selecting the right dimensions as per your requirements. Please feel free to contact them for any queries. They also offer free ground shipping on many popular items. To get more information about the products and services offered by the company, you can visit www.gotgreenprinting.com.

Embrace Environment Friendly Printing with Green Graphics and Printing

Green Graphics and Printing — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:36:03 +0000

The trend toward going green has given virtually everyone in the country a new viewpoint and perspective on how to protect and restore the world’s environment. Using eco-friendly printing processes and recycled papers help make the earth healthier by reducing the technological impact on the environment. A number of progressive organizations have adopted a greener stance to save the earth and promote their corporate activities at the same time. Using Print Green as a corporate policy helps in communication and generates greater awareness among eco-conscious consumers.

Based in Woodland Hills, California, Green Graphics and Printing has been providing environment friendly printing services to businesses large and small with the lowest prices for several years. From their website, GotGreenPrinting.com, the company has consistently provided its customers with eco-friendly print products created using the highest quality inks and papers. Print Green has been the company’s primary focus to help protect and restore the earth while providing its customers with high quality eco-friendly printing services and print products. Green printers and their eco friendly practices are gaining in popularity across the country by using recycled papers, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified papers and soy or vegetable-based inks along with reducing the amount of waste paper generated during the printing process.

If you’re interested in using more environmentally conscious printing, you will find a wide range of recycled print products available at GotGreenPrinting.com that protect the environment as you promote your business. Recycled paper postcards are one of the most innovative promotional products available at GotGreenPrinting. Their vibrant colors and crisp text give proof to the superior printing quality obtainable from economical recycled paper postcards. Green Graphics and Printing offers 100 percent recycled paper postcards printed with soy or vegetable-based inks and creative finishing options to make them stand out in your customers’ mailboxes. You can become an active member of the Green Graphics and Printing family with just a few clicks to access the complete range of quality printed material at Green’s affordable prices. At www.GotGreenPrinting.com, you will find the most economical and environmentally sound printed material to stay in touch with your customers without harming the earth.

Soy Ink Business Cards – an Effective Way to Attract Customers

Green Graphics and Printing — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:34:15 +0000

These days, everyone is much more aware about the harmful effects of global warming and the need for using eco-friendly products and services to create a more sustainable and healthy environment. Paper is among one of the most overused consumables in the business world today. In addition to reducing the amount of printing that’s done, businesses should also consider more ecologically sensitive products and methods when searching out new options for their stationery needs such as business cards, flyers, brochures, presentation folders and envelopes. In terms of the printing industry, the best way to protect our environment is to use more eco-friendly products including recycled papers and soy or vegetable based inks. Green Graphics and Printing (www.GotGreenPrinting.com) is your best source for all your printing needs with an emphasis on saving the environment. Green Graphics and Printing uses soy and vegetable based inks in producing business cards, brochures, envelopes, flyers, postcards, letterheads and all other products with clear, vibrant results.

Soybeans are used for a myriad of purposes and now they are found in printing inks as well. Soy based ink, made from soybeans, is a renewable resource and is environmentally friendly. Soy inks and vegetable-based printing inks are preferred for green printing, as they do not contain Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). VOCs have proven to be carcinogenic and cause serious lasting effects on the environment and human beings. So it is recommended, for the earth’s sake, to use inks that contain no VOCs. Printing soy ink business cards reduces the harm of carbon emissions and harmful substances entering our air and water supplies whereas traditional petroleum based inks contain high levels of VOCs and cause environmental damages including groundwater, air and soil contamination.

Soy ink recycled business cards come in bright vivid colors and are a distinctive way to attract the attention of your customers. Green Graphics and Printing also enables its customers to customize printing sizes and colors for every product through their online site easily. Their eco letterheads are printed on either recycled 70 lb smooth white or on recycled 70 lb linen. Letterhead is also printed with soy inks to reduce further the proliferation of harmful chemicals. GotGreenPrinting.com offers quick and free shipment for most orders. For further information about the environmentally friendly printing services available from Green Graphics and Printing, please visit www.gotgreenprinting.com today.

Green Printing Services Protect the Environment from Harmful Substances

Green Graphics and Printing — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:54:44 +0000

Most high volume print production facilities are producing harmful waste by-products when they use petroleum-based inks, adhesives, varnishes and laminates throughout the printing process. These products produce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in vast quantities, which end up in our ground water, soil and air, contributing harmful toxins to the environment. There is an urgent need for more companies to turn to environmentally friendly printing by requesting that all their hardcopy materials such as brochures and flyers use soy- or vegetable-based inks and recycled paper products.

Got Green Printing (www.gotgreenprinting.com) is a pioneer in the field of green printing services available online. Some of Got Green Printing’s commitment towards eco-friendly printing includes:
• Use of soy- and vegetable-based inks
• Encouraging the use of recycled and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certified paper
• UV and Aqueous coatings containing zero VOCs
• Offsetting their electric and carbon emissions with 100% Wind-Powered Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) and Verified Emissions Reductions (VER) projects
• Donation of a portion of their profits to the National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy, The Ocean Conservancy
• Recycling and reusing paper products where feasible

Got Green Printing offers ecofriendly printing services for all types of business documents including brochures, business cards, flyers, envelopes, letterheads, direct response blooming cards, postcards and many more. According to its customers’ requirements and budget, Got Green Printing can help design and produce the latest eco-friendly designs of recycled presentation folders. The folders are printed on recycled 14-point card stock, helping to reduce the harmful byproducts causing damage to our environment. Got Green Printing caters to all the printing needs of small and large businesses by offering green printing services at the lowest prices with quick turnaround and free ground shipping on almost every item.

Got Green Printing’s clients may select what they need for their printed materials from numerous templates available or they can also design their own materials easily online. With just a few simple steps, the client may specify the printing ink color, paper stock and graphic design plus add the necessary details such as company name, logo and other important information. By signing up with Got Green Printing, customers may take advantage of special offers and discounts on new projects. Start using Got Green Printing’s green printing services today and help protect our planet. For further information or to get a quote on an upcoming project, please visit www.gotgreenprinting.com today.

Use Green Printing Services to Save Our Planet

Green Graphics and Printing — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:59:38 +0000

The need to keep our environment free from various harmful chemical substances cannot be ignored. VOCs are the harmful volatile compounds which cause an adverse effect on the environment and our health. With conventional petroleum based inks, a lot of non-renewable fuels are used by the printing houses for printing of brochures, greeting cards, envelopes, business cards and other products. The best way to preserve our planet is to stop availing those printing services and opt only for green printing services. Got Green Printing is contributing towards the preservation of environment by offering eco-friendly printing services using non-petroleum vegetable based inks.

GotGreenPrinting.com ensures that the printing process is completed within the budget of the customers while limiting the harm to our environment. They offer eco friendly printing services by offering brochures, postcards, flyers, business cards, presentation folders and many more products on recycled papers. The traditional inks have been replaced with modern vegetable based or soy based inks. These inks offer even more vibrant print colors without causing any harm to the environment. Recycled and FSC certified papers are used in place of virgin papers, ensuring that the trees are not cut down for fulfilling the need of paper. They provide templates for all of their products and the clients can easily customize them according to their required size, design and color.

Impress your customers with the attractive recycled presentation folders. Their presentation folders are printed on recycled 14pt card stock and are offered at the lowest prices. These can be left uncoated or finished with a water based UV coating. The printing of folders is done using vegetable based inks which reduces harmful components damaging the environment. The folders are the best way to showcase your documents and grab the attention of potential customers. A part of profits made by Got Green Printing is donated to various environmental conservation organizations such as the National Wildlife Federation, The Ocean Conservancy and The Nature Conservancy. Find out more about their printing process, by browsing through www.gotgreenprinting.com.

Color Shifts in Printed Materials

Green Graphics and Printing — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:24:48 +0000

Have you ever had a set of business cards printed, and then a year later go back to the same exact printer with the same exact file and your next set of cards are a slightly different color?

If you are printing in full color this will most likely occur every time you go to print. The reason for this is that almost all full color printers create what is called a “gang run.” A printing press runs large sheets of paper, so instead of running one order of business cards, which would cost the customer hundreds of dollars, printers place 30-40 different business card orders on a single sheet of paper. This method significantly reduces the cost for each customer.

The two drawbacks of gang run printing are that the customer has only a few paper stocks to choose from, and the colors may shift!

Printers match up the business card colors that are similar in hue and put them together as best they can. In one run a predominantly green card is placed under another green card going to print. When printed, the green card will print out very consistently with the colors that are on the file. What you see on the screen is likely to be what you see in print. A year later, that same green card is placed under a blue card, instead of a more similarly colored green card. This time around, that green card may come out with a slightly bluer shade of green. To take the example further, the third time the same green card is printed it is placed next to a solid pink card, giving this new run a green that is slightly mottled in hue.

Most full color printers have an allowance of up to a 5% color shift on any of the 4 colors that make up the printing color spectrum: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.

The benefit of full-color printing is that it is inexpensive, and you can have as many different colors as you want in your printed materials. If you are very picky about the colors on your materials, you will not want to use a gang-run full-color printer. You will want to either run on a one or two color press using Pantone colors, or find a printer who will print your card only on a solo run. Just know that the price is going to be significantly higher.

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Is Soy Ink better than “Conventional” Ink?

Green Graphics and Printing — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:22:43 +0000

“Conventional” ink is petroleum based and uses a mixture of water, resins, pigments, and a variety of metals such as barium, copper and zinc. The water waste from the printing press, even when properly disposed of, can leach these toxic metals into the soil and groundwater. Heavy amounts of VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) are also released during the printing process when using petroleum based inks. VOC’s are a primary cause of headaches and dizziness among printing company employees.

Soy ink is made from soybean oil, pigments, resins and waxes and does not contain all of the heavy metals that petroleum based ink has. During the printing process, a significantly smaller amount of VOC’s are released.

Another benefit of soy based inks is that they produce brighter colors. This is due to the ink’s lighter consistency, which allows it to lay on the paper differently than do petroleum based inks. Soy based ink also degrades nearly twice as fast as petroleum based ink, making it easier to de-ink paper during the paper recycling process.

Soy based ink is also great for printing full color stationery, as the heating point is much greater than petroleum based ink. What this means is that when you run your stationery printed with soy ink through either your color or black and white laser printer, there is less of a chance that the colors on your stationery will run, fade, or ruin your laser printer by coming off on the rollers. I learned the hard way.

As with all of our blogs, we like to offer both sides of the eco-picture. We at Green Graphics and Printing DO prefer soy ink over petroleum ink. No one in our shop ever gets headaches and we are not leaching toxic fumes and metals into the earth. However, we are also very aware of the fact that only 33% of the soybeans produced in 2008 came from the U.S. Many acres of forest and rainforest in other countries are being cut down in order to provide room for soy bean growing farms, so we are always on the lookout for a product that will be a 100% win for the environment.

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What’s The Difference Between FSC Certified and Recycled Paper and Which is Better to Use?

Green Graphics and Printing — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:09:02 +0000

I’ve been asked this question hundreds of times, so here’s the answer:

FSC stands for Forest Stewardship Council. They are a third party certification organization who assess those who manage the care of forests. They look at how those managing the care of a forest are complying with federal law and international agreements relating to the rights of indigenous peoples, enhancing the long-term social and economic well being of workers and surrounding communities, and conserving the biological diversity, water, soil and ecosystems surrounding the forest. The FSC also requires a management plan. It must describe the scale and intensity of logging and renewal operations as well as the long-term objectives and monitoring of the forest, making sure that what is cut down is being replanted. If all the criteria of the FSC are met by the management of the forest, then the forest will receive an FSC Certification. Paper made from wood taken from FSC certified trees is given the FSC Certification as well. FSC Certified paper does NOT have anything to do with the paper being recycled, but that it was derived from trees from a well managed forest.

Recycled paper is made from either 100% discarded (post-consumer) paper, or a mix of post-consumer and pre-consumer paper (paper that is discarded during the paper-making process, but never gets used by consumers), or a mix of post-consumer and either FSC Certified or just regular, non certified paper.

So which one is better? There is a lot of debate about this in the paper industry. Paper made directly from trees still requires the trees be cut down, (although they are replanted). Large tractors and logging machinery are used, adding pollution and noise to the surrounding environments, as well as chemicals and water waste used in the paper-making process. On the other hand, chemicals are still used in the making of recycled paper, because the fibers have to be broken down and de-inked (although most recycled papers no longer use toxic bleach in the de-inking process). I always use recycled paper. Although both types unfortunately use chemicals in the process, you are at least not adding to the landfills or harming ecosystems during the logging process. I encourage everyone to use recycled paper, even if it is only 30% or 50% recycled. If you choose to use non-recycled paper, make sure it is FSC Certified. At least you can feel confident that the wood was harvested with the utmost care and concern for the forest and its surrounding ecosystem.

Renee Delgado

Owner of Green Graphics and Printing

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