Categories

Material

• Paper
• glass
• metal
• fabric
• skin.....?? hmmmmm
• Aluminium
• Moulded Fiber
• Tin
• Foil
• Clay
• Wood
• Bamboo

Sub-Category: PAPER

• Cardboard
• Card
• Normal paper
• coated paper
• uncoated
• satin
• recycled- how much percentage?/ post consumer
  
• unbleached
• newsprint
• sugar paper
• tree free paper
• off white/ natural white paper
• FSC certified paper

Media

• Poster
• Calendar
• Leaflets
• Booklet
• Bins
• cutting mats
• guillotine
• notebooks
• packaging ( reusable )

Different types of packaging ?

Longevity

• Throw away straight after viewing/ use
• Calendar- a year?
• Reused as a functional item....unpredictable how long till consumer throw away

None-eco friendly ways of printing

• Varnishes: Mylar, UV Varnish, Polpropylene and Colleglaze are all much harder to strip out of paper at the recycling stage. Some laser sorters at recycling plants can even mistake gloss uv varnish for shiny plastic
• Solid Areas of ink : Large solid areas increase difficulty in the deinking process in larger volumes of toxic waste.
  
• Metallic Ink: harder to de-ink
• Petroleum (oil) based ink
• Dark blue, Dark purple and red colours : harder to de-ink that other colours, requiring additional chemicals and treatment.
• Plastic Binding
• Big Bleed areas
• Offset: Wastes water from dampening solution, part of lithographic process is tainted wit a high VOC count. Press and blanket roller washing solutions also contain harmful solvents which contain high VOC levels
• Solvent based glue
  

Greener ways to print....

• Soy Based Ink
• Water based ink
• Vegetable Based ink
• Water based Varnish
• Cellulose base Varnish
• as little number if ink as possible
  

They all can be cleaned from the press with water rather than solvents

• Metal Binding
• Water-less printing: no dampening solution, specialised inks and temperature controlled press are used. Images can be much crisper, as dot gained is lower and screen rulings can b higher. Quality levels are often reached faster, resulting in less wasted paper
• Digital Printing: uses no harmful chemicals to clean the machinery, and the inks used a less of a health wastage as there is no requirement to run the printer until desired quality level is reached
  
• Embossing: Blind embossing uses no ink and the metal die can be kept use o melted and reused for other embosses
• Die cutting uses no ink, and the knives in the die can be re-shaped to new dies easily
• water based gluess
• NO glue?