What happens to all the newspapers and magazines we don’t buy? The answer is that much of this waste ends up in landfills. The situation worsens when you consider all the unused signs and graphics printed on paper and other materials that end up there too. And the wasted chemicals and energy used to produce the discarded matter add to the environmental impact.
If companies really want to reduce printed waste, they need a way to print only what’s needed. Hard to do cost-effectively with traditional printing and publishing.
A digital solution
On-demand printing and publishing leverages digital technology, enabling companies to produce only what’s needed, when and where it’s needed. So they can greatly decrease costly scrap and waste.
With on-demand solutions from HP, print service providers, graphic artists and other businesses can transform physical pages into digital media, optimise workflows and leverage new types of publishing services for added revenue potential – while taking steps to reduce their carbon footprints.
Significantly less waste
With HP Indigo digital presses, businesses can produce high-quality, short-run print jobs on demand. It now becomes cost-effective to take on short- or medium-run jobs and personalised printing projects. In a comparative study, HP Indigo presses wasted 98% less paper and used 86% less ink for shorter runs (500 copies), and 43% less paper and 39% less ink for longer runs (3,000 copies).(1)
The high-speed HP Inkjet Web press can also help reduce waste with shorter, on-demand runs (in the thousands), compared with the longer runs (in the tens of thousands) typical in the newspaper and periodical industries.
High-quality point-of-sale
Screen print service providers can ease their transition to digital printing with the new HP Scitex FB7500 Printer. It’s a versatile UV flatbed printer perfect for high volumes of on-demand printing of high-quality point-of-sale projects, exhibition graphics, signage, backlit displays and posters.
With a maximum productivity of 500 m2/hr, this printer is ideal for high-paced environments and tight schedules. To help convert screen printing volume to digital, this printer adds outstanding media versatility and an efficient, automated workflow, avoiding lengthy and costly set-up processes.
Transform carbon-intensive processes
HP Exstream helps companies print more responsibly and reduce environmental impact. Leveraging the software’s many electronic and interactive capabilities, it can help automate and streamline document creation and delivery processes across an enterprise. Digitised documents are easy to access, edit, distribute and print on demand, which helps reduce scrap and keep content up to date.
Transition to digital today
As companies seek ways to do business with less environmental impact, HP on-demand printing and publishing solutions can help them transition to more sustainable approaches – while they work towards eliminating the media leftovers that eat at their bottom lines.
(1) Sachin R. Kadam, Mary Anne Evans, Ph.D., Sandra Rothenberg, PhD, A Research Monograph of the Printing Industry Center at RIT, PICRM-2005-01, “A Comparative Study of the Environmental Aspects of Lithographic and Digital Printing Processes” (2009)