Being ‘Green’ Pays Dividends

In 1989, at Quad’s Pewaukee, WI, facility, waste ink was being generated at a clip of nine drums a month, which it viewed as a cost of doing business. In 2006, Pewaukee generated nine drums for the entire year. What occurred between 1989 and 2006?

According to Tom Estock, Quad/Graphics’ corporate environmental manager, “We challenged the pressmen to come up with alternative strategies to reduce the amount of waste ink. Ideas implemented included better ink estimating for specific print jobs, utilizing ink from one press to another press running similar jobs, and segregating ink by color in order to blend it into new ink.”