The Print Business

August 2007 • Vol 3 • Issue 8

4 From the Top

8 Upfront
With a distinct green theme. How does Beacon stay ahead? What HDP did next and help from Envirowise

12 My favourite business read
Robert Horne’s environmental expert Tim Barker provides a guide to the best business information on the environment

14 Dispatches
Catching up with the environmental news in print. Blackmore takes the next step; Johnston Press trials reusable cores: and award winners

18 Need to know
Environmental accreditations, what they are and how to get them explained

34 Who has what
The Print Business guide to the printers with the certifi cates in the most comprehensive listing available

42 No alcohol please
Most presses can run without isopropyl alcohol in the fount and we feature companies that have chosen this way of printing.

46 Fulmar flies high
Mike Taylor becomes president of the BPIF with an environmental message and a few days before his company kicks IPA into touch. Coincidence? We don’t think so

50 Cleaning up in operation
The story of how printing has reached the 21st century

54 On the digital side
Digital is cleaner than conventional, but not all digital presses are equal

55 Chemical stew
Consumable companies are working on ways to cut back on IPA. We look at what is involved for the dedicated

56 Waste not, fined not
The government is mixing the carrot and the stick in a bid to combat climate change
and the waste mountain. We look at what this means for printers

60 Federation fired up
The BPIF has the environment high on its agenda for the next year. Chief executive Michael Johnson explains what this means and how it will benefit printers

66 Cleaning Heron’s nest
The Wyndeham Group is on the way to earning ISO 14001 for all its operations. We discover why Wyndeham is doing this and how

76 Publishers on the green agenda
Haymarket is the first ISO 14001 registered publisher in the UK. Production director Chris King tells Andy Knaggs what this means for print, while Reed Elsevier points out the importance of “brain print”

84 Paper 2007
The most comprehensive directory of the
papers that are available for printers are
buyers

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