Green Printing — Pulp (Non) Fiction: Fighting for Our Forests

Printers from Seattle to New York are now gaining FSC certification. Rainforest Alliance’s Murphy reports that there are now more than 200 certified printers in North America, including giants such as Quad/Graphics, RR Donnelley and Quebecor, with multiple locations certified.

And, yes, the Pacific Northwest has gotten greener. In Tukwila, a suburb of Seattle, Rich Lancaster, president of Printing Control Graphics, says, “FSC certification is one part of a bigger program at Printing Control to reduce our overall environmental footprint, to encourage our customers to use environmentally sound practices and products, and to help drive our industry to a greener future. Printing Control has been reducing its environmental footprint locally for more than six years through its participation in the King County EnviroStars program and, most recently, we became FSC certified. We are experiencing more and more interest in our environmental practices from our customers, to the point where we now believe that the effort we have made will most certainly reach an economic payback in the years to come.”