The Environment And Your Photocopier

The Environment And Your Photocopier

The Environment And Your Photocopier

Research Is being conducted by Canon around the printing industry to understand what issues professional printers are being faced with on a daily basis and what tools and resources would be effective in supporting them. This research is being conducted to support the development of an environmental module in the Essential Business Builder Programme. The Essential Business Builder Programme provides tools, workshops and consultancy to businesses in the professional printing industry. Environmental issues have are a key issue in this industry. Canon are hoping the environmental module to the EBBP will help professional print businesses to turn environmental challenges into business opportunities. This module is also being implemented to help to ensure that the environment is an integral part of an effective, ongoing business plan.

Major manufacturers in the photocopier and printing industries verdigrisproject.com/supporters have joined up to back a new scheme put in place by Digital Dots. This scheme has been launched to analyse the environmental impact of of print media at each stage of the production chain. The new initiative, called Verdigris, aims to distinguish areas in the print industry that need the most attention and the results will be provided free to the industry. It is hoped that Verdigris will be very vital to the printing industry as a whole in lowering the impact this industry has on the environment.

Steps have been taken to improve the use of bio-plastics in multifunctional printers and photocopiers. It has been shown that plastics containing plant-derived components require less oil and have 20 percent fewer manufacturing CO2 emissions than wholly petroleum based products. The usage of these bio-plastics in the manufacturing of photocopiers has been limited up until recently because of their shortcomings in the areas of flame retardance, impact resistance, heat resistance and malleability. There is a new bio-plastic called Ecodear which has been developed and reaches high levels of flame retardance, making it suitable for use in exterior parts of multifunctional photocopiers. According to Sustainable Times magazine (Winter 2008/9 issue) Canon plans to use 10 tons of the material. consisting of 25 percent plant derived material, in 2009.

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