Fact or Fiction: Green Printing According to Mercer Color

In addition, we’ve learned there are alternatives to hazardous pressroom chemistry and, despite many critics’ claims, these products really do work and in some cases they work better. Since making the switch to eco-responsible products in 1990, our ink consumption has decreased by 25%. We have only dumped the fountain solution in our circulating system three times since January 2003. We have gone from using three 55 gal. drums of wash per year to a single 30 gal. drum. We do not aqueous coat, almost all jobs can be worked and turned in 15 minutes or less and over 20% of our work is printed, folded, cut and shipped the same day (with a standard screen ruling of 300 lpi).