Being ‘Green’ Pays Dividends

Elsewhere in the shop, Murray operates a number of conventional two-color offset presses, whose blanket/roller washes and ink waste the company pays to have removed and recycled (as fuel) in concrete kilns designed to destroy hazardous waste. “Our emissions are pretty low overall,” Alton adds, “and, we constantly work with our pressroom suppliers to find effective alcohol substitutes and no/low VOC products.” The printer currently is testing chemistry-free Fuji plates and plans to triple its complement of DI presses (further reducing its dependence on conventional offset) by the end of the year.