Printing Process Inputs -- Consumables: A Mixed Bag

“There’s also the issue of the environmental impact of farming and questions about using farming to provide industrial materials as opposed to food,” Fuchs says.

Nonetheless, NAPIM created an Environmental Impact Task Force to explore the issue of bio-derived renewable materials and came up with a list of more than 60 types of such materials already being used in the formulation of inks. It is now developing a labeling process and standard methodology for providing bio-derived content information to ink buyers.