Green initiatives are turning up everywhere — including the printing industry. Two, top professional networking and educational organizations for U.S. print buyers — Print Buyers Online.com and the Print Buyers International — report growing interest in the topic, evidenced in their online poll results and attendance at their annual conferences’ green seminars.

One result: digital printing’s inherently green characteristics are gaining new favor. For example: digital’s distribute-then-print processes reduce energy-intensive transportation, print-on-demand lessens costly warehousing and landfill waste, and personalized printing cuts page volumes by targeting information more precisely.

Today’s leading digital print services providers are addressing environmental issues with a passion, including members of the Xerox Graphic Arts Premier Partners – a global affinity network of close to 700 vanguard Xerox-equipped graphic communications industry customers. Three Xerox Premier Partners that have taken leadership roles in establishing environmentally friendly, sustainable work practices are: QuantumDigital, Austin, Texas; EarthColor, Parsippany, N.J.; and Sandy Alexander, Clifton, N.J. All one needs do is visit their homepages to learn more about each company’s sustainability programs.

We recently had the pleasure of visiting with these three Xerox Premier Partners to find out more about their respective environmental programs. Their compelling stories are documented in this article, published in the February 2008 issue of Graphic Impressions magazine. We encourage you to please take a look at how each of these printing industry leaders is reaping business and social benefits by “Going Green.”

Xerox also has run a leadership environmental program since the early 1990s and was recently named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index, recognizing the company’s economic, environmental and social performance. For more information on how Xerox is contributing to a sustainable environment, visit: www.xerox.com/environment.

Let’s go, green!

Bob Wagner
Vice President, Creative Services Business and
Premier Partners Program
Xerox Corporation
robert.wagner@xerox.com