Fact or Fiction: Green Printing According to Mercer Color

Mercer Color is now at less than 40 grams/liter of VOCs on our wash and our fountain solution is 2/10ths of a pound per U.S. gallon in the concentrate. Our shop is virtually odor free and our inks are at 4% or less VOCs. With ink being 95% exempt on VOCs it is possible to be at 25 lbs. or less VOCs for every $1,000,000 in sales. At the present, the maximum VOCs allowed is 3 tons or 6,000 lbs. per year. It will take us about 40 years to reach 1 ton and 120 years to reach 3 tons.