The HP environmental story

HP and the environment

With HP’s global reach comes global responsibility. We take our role as a good global citizen seriously by being an economic, intellectual and social asset to the communities in which we do business. Beginning in the 1950s, Global Citizenship became a core company objective. A large part of our Global Citizenship commitment is about making a difference in the world through environmental responsibility.

In the 1980s, HP began electronics recycling.
HP’s Design for the Environment program was established in 1992. Product stewards, who participate on every HP printer and print cartridge design team, ensure environmental design goals are integrated into every product design, and measure HP performance in such areas as energy efficiency, material efficiency, ease of recycling, packaging efficiency, and overall environmental impact.
HP offers recycling services in more than 50 countries and territories.
HP has more than a thousand PCs, notebooks, monitors, and printing and imaging products that meet key eco-label programs.
HP used more than 5 million pounds of post-consumer recycled plastics in its inkjet cartridges last year.
HP is recognized as a leader on environmental issues by respected business publications and environmental organizations, including Fortune, Newsweek and the Carbon Disclosure Project.

HP Graphic Arts environmental story, today

HP designs system solutions with not only performance, but the environment in mind—looking for opportunities to conserve resources, and reduce both waste and energy consumption.

HP’s print-on-demand technology conserves resources by eliminating an estimated 20-30 percent of excess, unused prints associated with unsold or outdated material and in the process helps businesses cut their storage costs.
HP makes each print count with short-run digital printing, personalization and variable data printing (VDP) capabilities that maximize the effectiveness of printed materials and increase response rates. This model creates the opportunity to use resources more efficiently by ensuring that a much higher percentage of printed materials are used.
HP’s short-run digital printing technology uses resources more efficiently and reduces emissions as compared to conventional offset printing. Traditional printing involves more components, higher waste quantities and higher waste disposal costs. ¹


HP Graphic Arts environmental story, tomorrow

HP continues to look for opportunities to extend our environmentally responsible innovations across the Graphic Arts portfolio.

Water-based HP Latex inks will provide many of the benefits of solvent-ink technology—including outdoor durability—without imposing the typical environmental, health and safety considerations.
HP’s high-speed inkjet digital press (IHPS) will use HP water-based pigment ink technology and will help conserve resources with print-on-demand capabilities that allow customers to print only the amount needed, when it’s needed.


1 Source: “A Comparative Study of the Environmental Aspects of Lithographic and Digital Printing Processes,” Rochester Institute of Technology (http://print.rit.edu/pubs/picrm200501.pdf) and HP internal information. Note: HP considers this article to contain erroneous assumptions about Indigo 3000 emissions.

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